Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] it [was/were] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the second 45 minutes it was Chelsea who made the chances , with Boro keeper Steve Pears reacting well to keep them out . |
| 2 | According to these employers it was teachers who needed WE more than pupils , so that they could get a picture of what engineering was really like ( as opposed to media misrepresentations — strikes , redundancies , etc. ) and so put across a ‘ good image ’ of engineering , hopefully attracting the ‘ brighter pupils ’ into the industry . |
| 3 | Among Merovingian monarchs it was Guntram who provided Gregory with his model of Christian kingship . |
| 4 | Adam suspected that these days Rufus might be quite fastidious about wine , a wine snob even , the kind that savours bouquets and talks about nice little domestic burgundies and so forth , but in those days it was plonk he wanted . |
| 5 | But on forty one minutes it was Milton who took the lead as new signee from A E R Harwell , Robbie Munn , was on hand to slide the ball home from close range as Matt Utteridge in the Bishops ' goal could only palm away Nigel Mott 's probing cross to send Milton in at the interval leading by a goal to nil . |
| 6 | Some days everyone who wrote with their left hand automatically received two lengths of the corridor , and on other days it was people whose name began with the letter ‘ S' ’ . |