Example sentences of "it was [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the days of his partnership with Tim Rice , it was Rice who took charge of the " front of house " publicity , handling the round of chat-shows and press interviews with a breezy and plausible charm . |
| 2 | Then , pretending for a moment that he was back there , he would turn round and face the back of his cage , open his wings , and glide down the few feet to where his food lay on the ground , pretending that it was prey and that the few feet was hundreds of feet , and that he could feel strong winds on his wings and was an adult eagle , and free , free to fly where he liked . |
| 3 | It was lack of funding rather than lack of freedom that was the main burden for British writers and artists in this period . |
| 4 | It was lack of emergency cover combined with the pressures of limited time that largely dictated the period of the year when training was undertaken . |
| 5 | And it was lack of money that stopped them going away . |
| 6 | It was lack of space on the ground floor of the Richelieu wing which I.M. Pei has redesigned in such a way as to supply maximum visibility , which inspired the department of sculpture to split their collections into French and foreign . |
| 7 | I passed but that w I mean it was so , it was lack of sleep and the worst thing was the chap who was marking the paper said er , when I was there , he said , I told him what had happened and he said er , did you get much sleep last night ? |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't think it was lack of brains , ’ Michele opined . |
| 9 | Perhaps surprisingly , it was division two which had the largest number of entrants . |
| 10 | It was Sunday and the streets were empty . |
| 11 | It was Sunday and Mark was working on the address he was to give at Trinity College , Dublin . |
| 12 | It was Sunday , and dead as the proposal to market a can of ‘ Diet Guinness ’ . |
| 13 | Later , I was still disturbed by Mick 's comments , but it was Sunday and self-pity was always sweeter then . |
| 14 | It was Sunday and Nellie was visiting with the twins . |
| 15 | It was Sunday and they had all found rooms in a commercial apartment house . |
| 16 | It was Sunday evening . |
| 17 | It was Sunday , and Yanto had enjoyed the casual breakfast with his Mother , something he rarely had time for during the working week Their chat during breakfast had revealed to him that his Mother had enjoyed the previous Friday evening out with Sid Watkins and would probably see him again . |
| 18 | The 5 sins were such things as letting his Bible fall by accident , jumping about for a few minutes on the sabbath , forgetting that it was Sunday , and hesitating to lend his sister a book which she asked him for . ' |
| 19 | Besides , it was Sunday . |
| 20 | It was only when he reached the closed doors that he remembered that it was Sunday . |
| 21 | Because it was Sunday , it was practically empty and silent . |
| 22 | It was Sunday , she was expecting a detective , the timetable at the cafe was out of date . |
| 23 | It was Sunday , and every belfry insisted |
| 24 | For it was Sunday and there was no market . |
| 25 | And it was Sunday afternoon when I came out the pit the next time . |
| 26 | It was Sunday pretty well taken care of . |
| 27 | It was Sunday the next day and he would be playing golf . |
| 28 | It was a quarter to six and seemed even earlier because it was Sunday . |
| 29 | One she guessed was the owner 's home number ; as it was Sunday , she might well need it . |
| 30 | I remembered it was Sunday morning ; the time for sermons and parables . |