Example sentences of "was [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The war was on and it had to be won before life could become normal again . |
| 2 | A few yards away , the food dispenser 's sensor light was on as it scanned the crowd for likely clients . |
| 3 | As long as he was there , nothing was different , it was all as it had been when he came back on Tuesday , even the baby next door was moaning sleepily , and from the open window in the living-room he could hear a dog helping outside . |
| 4 | One may however ask whether those in the action sample who said that the strain was less than it had been a year ago attributed this to the effects of the Home Support Project . |
| 5 | What state it was in before it crystallized he does not explain ; certainly it was not glassy . |
| 6 | The white Gulfstream One executed a perfect landing but it was only when it taxied towards them that Whitlock saw the blue , red and white Zimbalan flag painted on the side of the fuselage with the words ‘ Air Zimbala ’ above it in black lettering . |
| 7 | The Irish tag was redeemed for a small reward and it was only when it arrived back in the Central Fisheries Board office , Dublin , that Sea Angling Officer , Peter Green , discovered that a new distance record had been set for their shark tag scheme . |
| 8 | If his judgement rankled , it was only because it accorded perfectly with my own . |
| 9 | It was thus that it acquired its unique form : 35 km long and about 1.6 km wide with steep sides sloping to a flat bed . |
| 10 | It was best when it felt like you were fighting gravity , fighting the pull of forces greater than yourselves . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's funny you should say that , ’ said Miss Mack 's Solicitor , from a resumed recumbent position , rather dreading his appearance as No. 11 in boots too small for him , ‘ because an uncle by marriage of mine took me once to tea with some cousin of his who had been a county cricketer and this county chap said middle and leg was best because it gave you room to cut . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Our league campaign this season was over before it began and I could offer a lot of excuses but wo n't . |
| 13 | The party was over before it began . |
| 14 | For these traders , the show was over before it began . |
| 15 | In moral America , it looked as if the Clinton campaign was over before it had begun . |
| 16 | The conversation was over before it had started . |
| 17 | Carrington 's adventure in Holland was over before it had begun , by two short days . |
| 18 | It was exactly as it had been drawn in the family for generations . |
| 19 | There was nothing wrong with the noble creed they were taught-it was just that it played no part in the actual operation of the military dictatorship . |
| 20 | That was as far as modernisation had gone : the other end of the scullery was just as it had always been , with the old deep sink for laundry , served by a single , presumably cold tap , and in the corner beyond it the copper for ‘ the boil ’ . |
| 21 | For all was not as it seemed . |
| 22 | The attic was not as it had been . |
| 23 | There was no mention anywhere of Morpurgo or Mrs Diamond by name , nor hint in anything Harry read that all was not as it appeared to be . |
| 24 | As the Poets ' Garden , a decoration for the bedroom of the " poet Gauguin " was more than it seemed . |
| 25 | This was more than it fell during the same stage of both the 1973–75 and 1981–82 recessions , but less than the short , sharp fall in 1980 . |
| 26 | The first decision was clearly whether it made sense to concentrate all our resources behind the two core businesses , without foods . |
| 27 | Ruth stared down at it and wondered why she had bought it and thought it was probably because it contrasted so sharply with what she had been through on this trip . |
| 28 | This was partly because it proved so difficult to crush or even to assess the strength of the ‘ People 's Will ’ . |
| 29 | The missing reliquary , it seemed , was back where it belonged , just as a witness had been found who could and would confirm exactly how it had been made to disappear . |
| 30 | I may also have dwelt too long on the years between 1690 and 1730 , but this was simply because it seems to be most people 's favourite period . |