Example sentences of "it was [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And er I mean it was all luck everything that sort of happened to me that night anyway I mean it it was n't so lucky for other people but I suppose most survivors have their their tale or so .
2 It was all part of the Rue Everlor .
3 It was all part of the defence of London in an emergency .
4 It was all part of their information technology training , a component of the national curriculum .
5 She regularly conceded it was all part of the ‘ game ’ she was involved in .
6 It was all part of the game .
7 It was all part of his punishment , to give him food he liked when it could n't be appreciated .
8 But he accepted it was all part of the deliberate fuzzing that went with G9 .
9 Some clearly thought it was all part of the night 's entertainment .
10 But it was all part of my compulsion to lose weight .
11 It was all part of the job , ’ he said with a grin .
12 Russian into business.Market stalls might not hold that much interest for the average Briton , but for Ekaterina Likhoda from Nizhni Tagil in the Russian Urals , ( see below , far right with South Wales Society president Paul Marshall — also pictured on the far left are Ekaterina 's interpreter , Olga Lewis , and Michelle Thomson , owner of the fruit stall ) it was all part of an unusual business-study trip arranged for her by the Institute 's General Practitioner Board .
13 It was all part of a private mythology that Mario had worked up to fit the American Success Story , and quite wonderful it was .
14 It was all part of him again .
15 The old man had never suggested before that they have a drink together ; maybe it was all part of that new world he had entered when he stood in front of Mr Albert 's mirror in his new suit .
16 Perhaps , though , it was all part of a war of nerves .
17 It seems odd that a man with so much of a reputation for sexual encounters should cringe from public contact , but it was all part of his reserve .
18 It was all part of the game that he enjoyed playing .
19 He could n't do the job , he knew it and his father-in-law knew it , but it was all part of the grand master plan : How To Keep Your Daughter At Home .
20 It was all part of his campaign to enable him to take part in Operation Raleigh in February this year .
21 It was all part of the mad social whirl that young women of her age had to endure .
22 He tells us in his autobiography that this decision produced a breakdown in his wife 's health , but it was all part of his efforts to become a pure Buddhist leader and hence bring benefit to burma .
23 And , by the way , " he added , as if it was all part of the same subject , " I think I 've come up with the safest combination of captain and crew for your journey .
24 They thought it was all part of his evident ‘ foolishness ’ .
25 She liked to imagine everything had come straight off the land ; it was all part of the wholesome image , ’ Jenny recalled .
26 It was all part of the service !
27 He 'd raised his arms in a gesture of possession , and , even though she 'd known it was all part of a beautifully sculpted drama , Shannon had felt a thrill deep inside , as though she too were part of the kingdom the Viking had taken for his own .
28 I imagine it was all part of the same reaction .
29 She said there was this female , that the other thing , and there was a whole long list of things that pointed to this interpretation , and it was all part of a , as you say a great mass of data , that erm , is , is quite mind-bogglingly large , if you actually erm , see it in words .
30 It was all part of the celebrations to mark the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the outbreak of war.Elizabeth O'Reilly reports .
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