Example sentences of "it [was/were] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | right , Mr did it require his approval , as the , as it were officer in charge of brochures ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was faith in a God Who is watching over the world , and is active in it . |
| 4 | It was faith in a God Who cared for an individual , and spoke to him , lovingly and regularly . |
| 5 | It was faith in a God Who is unchanging . |
| 6 | After love , it was night in the desert , handfuls of icy sand stinging her skin and eyes . |
| 7 | Moreover , it was improvements in peasant husbandry that were primarily responsible for the growth . |
| 8 | It was developments in sampling theory from statistics which weakened the force of both these assumptions , and quite early on in Britain . |
| 9 | As the Club Conference Committee was struggling to express this wider vision in an initial Statement of Aims , it was Philip in 1964 who produced the winning title that we all now take for granted — Frontier Youth Trust . |
| 10 | It was Field in 1977 who had suggested that the glucose/sugar component of oral rehydration solutions could be replaced by long chain polymers of glucose , ie. starch . |
| 11 | It was hardship in this , that er , perhaps the hardest time came after it when er , well it was called public assistance then , social security payments had to be payed back . |
| 12 | Course , it was horses in them days , not motorcars . |
| 13 | It was July in London , and the city was alive . |
| 14 | It was work in the days I 'm telling you about . |
| 15 | It was pride in his beauty that was his undoing ! ’ |
| 16 | It was slavery in all but name , and names meant little to those who had to endure it . |
| 17 | As railway employment declined ( there were two million railway workers in 1920 and only one million in 1930 ) it was Blacks in unskilled work who were the most vulnerable . |
| 18 | For many of the authors discussed above , it was changes in the rules ( however defined ) governing behaviour . |
| 19 | It was changes in the economy , however , that would be decisive in any development of this kind , and the speech was largely preoccupied with familiar matters such as growth , efficiency and labour productivity . |
| 20 | Friedman and Schwartz , however , claimed that it was changes in the nominal money supply which caused changes in money national income ( recall the mechanism described in Chapter 21 ) and , once again , they appealed to empirical evidence to support their view . |
| 21 | David Cooper of Genetic Resources Action International , based in Barcelona , pointed out that it was farmers in West Africa who first noted the resistance of some varieties of cowpea to insects and who nurtured superior varieties that carried this characteristic . |
| 22 | As it happens , it was Geordie in origin but it might equally well have been Liverpool or Sheffield . |
| 23 | Lone parents now account for 14% of families with dependent children ( it was 8% in 1971 ) . |
| 24 | Not only were there numerous deep recessions , but by the end of the century it was discovered foreign iron ore was of a higher quality , and although the MSG works did smelt imports from Spain , Russia and Chile , it was furnaces in ports that could do the cheapest . |
| 25 | What really spurred it was abuses in appraisals of works of art . |
| 26 | It was life in the big city with several thousand other students from all kinds of places , with different ways and no one to force you to study like Mother Francis . |
| 27 | In the USA where labour was the scarce resource , it was the process of mechanisation first with animal and later tractor motive power that facilitated the expansion of agricultural production and productivity by increasing the area operated per worker : while in Japan where land was the scarce resource , it was progress in biological technologies leading to increased responses by varieties of paddy to higher levels of fertiliser application . |
| 28 | It was Madame in the doorway , loudly disputing the accuracy of the information and the need for a power cut . |
| 29 | If it was history in the making , he brought it to the nation . |
| 30 | I suppose it was promotion in a way . |