Example sentences of "[pron] it [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that case the remedy required — that the consent of the Attorney-General be obtained for the institution of any prosecution for criminal libel : see p. 484 — was one which it was outside the power of the court to introduce . |
| 2 | The space must not contribute anything to the reaction or else modern physics is wrong in so many issues ( which it was at the time ) . |
| 3 | But ‘ what is forbidden is to question the correctness of a decision or determination which it was within the area of their jurisdiction to make . ’ |
| 4 | I could see who it was through the plastic bit . |
| 5 | Morale was shown by a woman who dialled a number in Buenos Aires at random and sang two choruses of Rule Britannia to whoever it was on the end of the line . |
| 6 | She did n't want to be caught up here or to have to pass whoever it was on the stairs . |
| 7 | Here , overcome by a mixture of shame , embarrassment and some genuine fellow feeling for whoever it was inside the box some yards to his left , the vicar turned to the coffin and said , in a Shakespearian voice , ‘ Goodbye , Donald ! ’ |
| 8 | When men looked at her it was normally with admiration ; when they spoke to her it was with the awe they felt when confronted by her beauty . |
| 9 | He told her it was like the moment when the tide stops coming in and starts going out again . |
| 10 | He wrote and told me it was on the cards . ’ |
| 11 | And Tim told me it was in the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 12 | That might sound naive to some people but to me it was like a flowering of my life . |
| 13 | For me it was like an Aladdin 's Cave , and one could not help but notice the often ridiculously low prices being asked . |
| 14 | To me it was like an unreality , like fashion photography . |
| 15 | ‘ I shut my eyes , the ball hit me on the nose , and when I opened them it was in the back of the net ’ . |
| 16 | Having got his way for so long , he should now relax and let the chair revert to what it it was in the past : a part-time job . |
| 17 | Whatever it was on the bottom of the loch it was no more strange than the atmosphere on that boat . |
| 18 | But in my hurry to get away from whatever it was in the bed I missed my footing and fell . |
| 19 | He would n't even tell me what it was over the phone . ’ |
| 20 | The other buses were either spread out in their running time or cut down to form the evening frequency which was less than what it was during the peak time and so I , you know , I 'd , I 'd left it at then , when I went in the forces then , he carried on . |
| 21 | Goes back to what it was at the start . |
| 22 | In the latter half of the nineteenth century there was considerable controversy as to what it was about a sensation , which differed according to the part of the body stimulated . |
| 23 | Besides attempting to say what it was about a sensation which served as a sign of the location of whatever had given rise to it , adherents of the local sign theory had also to say in what way the reference to a part of the body was made — whether in the form of visual imagery , or of a judgement , or of something else . |
| 24 | DeVore returned the bow , then turned , intrigued , wondering what it was about the boy that could so thoroughly spook the seemingly-imperturbable Douglas . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , I was so delighted to celebrate the mere existence of this euphoria that , as a reader pointed out , I made no attempt to analyze exactly what it was about the theme parks that had produced it . |
| 26 | And they , then the other ones er there was one with General Motors and it was a , a huge thing , you were ten , it was a huge building , modern building but you just could n't tell what it was from the outside . |
| 27 | Imposture is shown in Ackroyd 's novel , in this burlesque of the literary life , to be an interesting business , but it is unlikely to cause Chatterton 's reputation to inch back towards what it was in the retrospects of the Romantic period . |
| 28 | Then I try to discover what it was in the vision that charmed and translated me . |
| 29 | If people and the building of not only buildings but mutual trust are to the fore , then education needs to be fundamentally different from what it was in the product and process phases . |
| 30 | The Prophet 's gaze switched to it and his eyes widened as he saw what it was by the light of the moon . |