Example sentences of "[noun] it was [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Losses of soil through erosion vary greatly : under closed forest it may be 2.55 t per ha per annum in Trinidad , less than a tonne in Java or 0.41 in French Guyana , while under secondary forest in Madagascar it was nil , but up to 9 t when cleared and cultivated . |
| 2 | For someone used to the tiny creatures we get in England it was something of a shock , and I said as much as I leapt into the air . |
| 3 | Granting evils in the slave trade and colonial slavery it was none the less argued that government could more easily influence planters and traders through better regulation than they could control the situation on the West African coast . |
| 4 | Now you may think the budget was today 's big story , but for the people of one town it was nothing compared to a row over a much-loved local landmark . |
| 5 | Thank goodness it was nothing more serious . |
| 6 | coffee shop it was something like |
| 7 | Lucille 's home was very grandly called a château , though in truth it was nothing more than a large moated farm with a crenellated tower to remind passers-by that the building had once been a small fortress . |
| 8 | Every day it was something else . |
| 9 | but Mrs the other day it was something like two o'clock , Mrs said to her , she went to lunch one till two Mrs oh have you had your lunch ? |
| 10 | Cos that was St Petersberg catholic ladies guild or something and another day it was something like I B M or whatever you know . |
| 11 | But he would also say as a race it was nothing special : as a race it was ‘ out of all proportion to the fame and fortune ’ and needed ‘ no more ability than any other place ’ . |
| 12 | At one time I thought Tatyana may have done it , but now I have evidence it was someone else . ’ |
| 13 | Finally it was put to the vote , and while I can not recall the actual figures it was something like forty in favour of the UK proposal , about thirty abstentions and just one ( Bulgaria ! ) against . |
| 14 | You dug up a spadeful of earth , but by the time you threw it on the rampart it was nothing but muddy water . |
| 15 | And I sat and last week it was something down here . |
| 16 | And I had a catalogue the other day from a , an environmental erm agency it was n't Greenpeace it was something like that that were ac actually now offering these soap savers that we used to have in the war to press your bits of soap into Magazines were full of tips for saving fuel . |
| 17 | and I think it was something like , say twenty pound , it was on the market , but I have a feeling it was something like thirty odd |
| 18 | Yeah , I think that we need to look into more depth the issue of the County Farms estate , we agreed from the start it was something that could not be rushed , and we had to , the principle question that needed to be answered was that was there a viability for County Farms or role for County Farms in the nineteen nineties . |
| 19 | Photography is 80 per cent casting , and with Kate it was something more than a beautiful face . |
| 20 | It was unlikely , because there were numerous Telfords in the phone book , and in any case it was something she 'd have to risk . |
| 21 | Just in case it was anything venereal — though he did n't see what opportunities a woman of her age could have had for picking it up — he made sure that there was a larger gap than usual between them in bed . |
| 22 | Cats will happily go to anyone who feeds them — and in Sybil 's case it was anyone who fed her ego . ’ |
| 23 | The phrase itself is , by rock standards , quite complex harmonically ( though to Baroque musicians it was something of a cliché ) . |
| 24 | In the vast silence it was nothing . |
| 25 | I think this year speaking from memory it was something like fifteen , sixteen percent er , increase this year erm , but er , we 're getting to the stage now where it 's , it 's getting into profit and so we 're quite pleased with the growth there . |
| 26 | No doubt it was something rude ! |
| 27 | In fact it was something of a school for bass players . |
| 28 | For instance , a book on the influence of religious tradition on the education of women in Britain and India might include substantial chapters or whole sections on Hinduism , Buddhism and Christianity ; if the indexer therefore indexed HINDUISM , BUDDHISM , CHRISTIANITY , RELIGION , EDUCATION , WOMEN , INDIA , BRITAIN , the later combination of individual facets such as HINDUISM and BRITAIN might suggest , falsely , that the book was about Hinduism in Britain when in fact it was nothing of the kind . |
| 29 | In their view it was nothing more than delayed public spending in instalments . |