Example sentences of "it was [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was lack of funding rather than lack of freedom that was the main burden for British writers and artists in this period . |
| 2 | It was lack of emergency cover combined with the pressures of limited time that largely dictated the period of the year when training was undertaken . |
| 3 | And it was lack of money that stopped them going away . |
| 4 | It was lack of space on the ground floor of the Richelieu wing which I.M. Pei has redesigned in such a way as to supply maximum visibility , which inspired the department of sculpture to split their collections into French and foreign . |
| 5 | I passed but that w I mean it was so , it was lack of sleep and the worst thing was the chap who was marking the paper said er , when I was there , he said , I told him what had happened and he said er , did you get much sleep last night ? |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't think it was lack of brains , ’ Michele opined . |
| 7 | And it was girls in school then that s s you know when you started talking about , Ooh what happened to me on the beach and that . |
| 8 | MOST of Ravenna 's history and its art treasures revolve around the years 402-476AD when it was capital of the Western Roman Empire . |
| 9 | Christina Muir : ‘ Coming from a small boarding school evacuated and decimated by the war it was paradise to be with girls with intellectual interests . |
| 10 | And when told it was Victoria after the Queen and that the Queen was a wonderful lady , and her Prince was wonderful , too , she 'd had to bite her tongue to prevent herself from saying , ‘ Aye , she 's a wonderful lady all right , she 's still for bairns your size working twelve hours a day . |
| 11 | It was faith in a God Who is watching over the world , and is active in it . |
| 12 | It was faith in a God Who cared for an individual , and spoke to him , lovingly and regularly . |
| 13 | It was faith in a God Who is unchanging . |
| 14 | My final point , is that , and we have had it raised this morning , erm from er I think it was consultants on behalf of the C P R E that there was sufficient capacity within Greater York , and they referred to a table in their and their submission . |
| 15 | It was evidence of Karajan 's genius or magic or whatever we care to call it that he took enormous pains with these simple chords in order to get just the right degree of string tone with an appropriately dark colour . |
| 16 | The plaintiffs submitted that , although that had not been done , it was evidence of an intention to act against the interest of Jarrad 's shareholders . |
| 17 | To Branson , it was evidence of ‘ the worst kind of hypocrisy ’ , and proof of the relative fairness of the Virgin contract . |
| 18 | If it is directed to his particular case , the Home Secretary should disregard it at this stage unless it was evidence at the trial ; if directed to penal policy in general , it is merely a small part of his information as to public opinion . |
| 19 | It was cos it was change of contract . |
| 20 | It was mid-morning before the Constable remembered them and came to unbolt the lock-up . |
| 21 | Perhaps it was institutions like the dowry system which made the East African Asian Patels status conscious , or maybe they used the dowry with such enthusiasm because they had become so preoccupied with status as a result of their role in East Africa . |
| 22 | It was space that lamed the prospects of a truly national economy ; it was distance by land that doomed the government 's expensive attempt to re-create , in the eighteenth century , a great wool industry in central Spain and hampered the creation of an internal market in the nineteenth . |
| 23 | When the right job did turn up , it was relief for the frustrated star , but it also signalled the end of his marriage . |
| 24 | Gone are the days when guys thought it was girlie to be groomed , the new man of the 90's makes a noise about the fact that he knows how to look good and what 's more these guys now have more beautifying products than old socks ! |
| 25 | Every house had one or two people who were over forty-five and it was misery for them . |
| 26 | Nor to tell her that it was women like her who prevented girls doing well in sciences . |
| 27 | It was money for old rope . |
| 28 | Well it was money on the table . |
| 29 | And it was money on the table . |
| 30 | But it was night of despair for Villa , who had that great championship feeling after going two points clear at the top at the weekend . |