Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] and it [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British public were cautious and it took the Second World War to inspire a new , and more forward-looking , attitude to the problem of dealing with the economy and unemployment . |
| 2 | Of all these , Augmentations was probably the most remarkable , since its accounting processes were modern and it used a more rational system for collecting revenues than did the old Exchequer . |
| 3 | Where he exceeded expectation and all precedents was in making the ban total , but this clearly was just the element which was negotiable and it had the effect of extending the king 's patronage of both church and laity . |
| 4 | Its mouth was open and it had an expression on its face of someone who is going to have a lot of difficulty explaining what they have just seen , especially to themselves . |
| 5 | It was rectangular and it had a lid , like a shoe box , but it was longer . |
| 6 | Progress was slow and it took a long time to get a handicap , the first being 17 . |
| 7 | Eileen was dead and it made no difference at all . |