Example sentences of "it [was/were] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the passengers persevered to the end and looked as though it were no torture . |
| 2 | The planners realised that if a quiet residential street is designed using the same process as that used in designing a main road , it should not cause surprise if cars drive along it as though it were a highway . |
| 3 | And er she picked screwdriver up , well she thought it were a pen and I thought God she 's got a screwdriver and she 's gon na stab me and I put thirty plus thirty four |
| 4 | We are frustrated that London Weighting has consistently been used as if it were a concession to our demands . |
| 5 | He discovered the cigarette in his hand and examined it as if it were a mistake . |
| 6 | She held the lid as though it were a tambourine . |
| 7 | At the same time the wife 's role was to serve , and this modest withdrawal was as it were a part of the service . |
| 8 | As E. R. Curtius has pointed out , the pious attitude of the Romans to their past and their tendency to regard it as if it were a part of the present signified a kind of timelessness that excluded a genuinely historical view of the world and was very different from our sense of temporal perspective . |
| 9 | ‘ I only wish it were a day trip you were on . ’ |
| 10 | Instead they are to put on , as if it were a suit of new clothes , the new humanity that Is brought to them in Christ and is constantly renewed by a deepening knowledge of Christ , into the Creator 's original image in man , a likeness to God himself : hence the ‘ compassion , kindness , lowliness , meekness , patience , forbearance ’ , love , peace and gratitude of which he goes onto speak ( Col. 3:1,5–16 ) . |
| 11 | It were a weekend ! |
| 12 | When working with young children it is sometimes a good idea to invoke magic : " When we go into the hall we are going through a magic door " , as if it were a door to a magic wardrobe . |
| 13 | She giggled when his second attempt ended in the same way , and when he grasped her in a great bear hug , she was able to slip away as easily as if it were a child holding her . |
| 14 | The parchment was illuminated : an Englishman stood waist-deep in an ocean of scalloped rills , drawing a galleon of far greater tonnage than any ship Kit had ever sailed in as if it were a child 's toy boat ; he was pulling it towards a pair of islands , like pease puddings , smoking from their rounded summits on the pretty dish of the sea , garnished with sea creatures : one had a spiralling tusk and frilly fins , another a crocodile 's saw-toothed snout . |
| 15 | In fact he did n't know whether it were a child , he says you do n't know when it 's dark . |
| 16 | They are fighting for their enslavement as if it were a question of their salvation . |
| 17 | as if it were a question of an immediate marriage ! |
| 18 | It were a bit of a nervous one like , but he actually laughed . |
| 19 | Adam 's cut-off jeans with the fringed hems , she meant , and his yellow and red headband that he insisted on calling a fillet as if it were a bit of fish . |
| 20 | The vigil was very moving but some elements of it were a bit odd . |
| 21 | It were a bit swollen yesterday and he 's been in bed day , when he 's got up this morning that 's how |
| 22 | It were a bit charred by the lightning , but they plugged it in and music came out and the words to the music came up on the little television screen . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I do wish it were a bit warmer , ’ she muttered , shivering as the fresh , light breeze ruffled her blonde hair . |
| 24 | ah it were a bit rough er |
| 25 | Wearing a baggy green cap and showing not the slightest tension , Latif went for his strokes as if it were a charity match . |
| 26 | Shape your hand as if it were a bird 's foot , fingers apart . |
| 27 | If it were a ruse , they should be here to exploit it . ’ |
| 28 | What I am saying is that it is never too late to reformulate your goals : do n't give up and just accept your lot as if it were a sentence handed out by life . |
| 29 | One of the things that particularly amused him was that Hilary had pushed a red handkerchief into his sleeve as if it were a sign of breeding and distinction . |
| 30 | Noting in passing how conclusively the ‘ frigifaire paten ’ rules out any notion of a translation of propertius ( unless it were a translation in the sense of a raucous travesty or ‘ put-down ’ — and indeed some academic latinists did misconceive Pound 's poem in that way ) , some early readers were understandably disconcerted by the inversions of conversational or prosaic word-order — ‘ Happy who ’ , ‘ Stands genius ’ — especially from a poet who some years before had seemed to polemicize for just that rule about word-order which he here flouted . |