Example sentences of "[vb past] it be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But ye promised it was the last , ’ Winnie said , the drunken Rab ; and she could have pulled her hair and needed a pee but was frightened to leave Rab alone . |
| 2 | Clearly visible as an up-lighter caught it was the strong profile of Martin Ward , with the Dyson family a few steps behind . |
| 3 | Sinead — even in that mad moment — believed it was the right thing to do . ’ |
| 4 | She said she gave it to her daughter because she believed it was the only drug which could help alleviate her condition . |
| 5 | And she believed it was the same with him . |
| 6 | She herself claimed the 8th , the feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary , and in this , if in nothing else , that most powerful of Protestant reformers , John Knox , agreed with her , while one of her staunchest supporters , the Catholic John Leslie , bishop of Ross , believed it was the earlier date . |
| 7 | Do you know , when television came it was the biggest event in our lives , for women . |
| 8 | ‘ I assumed it was the deliberate policy of an amateur sport towards a ‘ public service ’ . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ And you knew Feargal , knew his name , knew he came from Slane , and assumed it was the same family . ’ |
| 10 | In Canada the British not only deluded themselves that they had defeated the axiom ; they also imagined it was the federal ingredient that had enabled them to do the trick . |
| 11 | I measured it when it died and confirmed it was the correct species by carrying out various ichthyological classification data , such as scale counts and rin ray counts . |
| 12 | Soon her ordeal would be over and she vowed it was the first and last time she would act as model . |
| 13 | He ate pork chops in tomato sauce with us that evening , and claimed it was the first good meal he had had in six months . |
| 14 | The Board 's General Manager Tom Frawley said today that the decision to close the Shantallow home had been a difficult one , but claimed it was the only possible course of action ‘ in light of the increase over the last few years in the level of nursing home accommodation and the reduced demand for residential accommodation which has come about as a result of improvements in housing in general and the development of sheltered accommodation and other community alternatives . ’ |
| 15 | He also claimed it was the largest open system to be employed at a statistic office in Europe , and announced that the company planned to use it as a reference site for national accounting offices in both East and Western Europe . |
| 16 | He also claimed it was the largest open system to be employed at a statistic office in Europe , and announced that the company planned to use it as a reference site for national accounting offices in both East and Western Europe . |
| 17 | He claimed it was the fabled treaure , buried in 1945 , of the Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita . |
| 18 | Even some Right-wing opposition politicians reckoned it was the best Mr Mitterrand could have done in the circumstances . |
| 19 | From the foam on it I guessed it was the first out of the keg that evening . |
| 20 | I guessed it was the bald man 's son . |
| 21 | When the 28-bedroom Sundial opened it was the first new hotel in the town for 240 years . |
| 22 | I figured it was the best way to keep the interaction between the guitar and the lyrics , which is the whole point for me . |
| 23 | It was impossible for Theodore to maintain the integrity of Wilfrid 's position while at the same time attempting to conserve the tradition which Eata , Eadhaed and Bosa represented , and in the years which followed it was the latter which was consolidated . |
| 24 | You stopped because you both decided it was the right thing to do for you at the time . |
| 25 | A takeover was under way by the grey men and the only ones who survived it were the grey people . |
| 26 | ‘ He swore it was the genuine cross . |
| 27 | It was the first time we 'd had proper monitors on stage — which meant it was the first time John heard his own voice . |
| 28 | As they stood shining their torches down on the twisted bits of metal , they saw it was the mangled remains of a Uzi . |
| 29 | The one I saw it was the same plain . |
| 30 | In the meantime , he eventually sold the Company as its peak in 1987 , he had made another small fortune , and with some 30 aeroplanes and 80 pilots on the books he felt it was the right time to let it go . |