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Example sentences of "it be [adj] was " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	No it 's that was Sarah and Elsa was n't it ?
2	Oh , erm yes indeed we have , erm it 's that was a report which I 've put to Local Government Information which was in fact written by or contributed by officer Roy Holt and on the to erm have a look at that , have a copy of it I mean .
3	Er , I moved the original motion , and the thinking at the time was , after a lot of discussion , that eight one as it appears on the agenda , to maintain the estate at around it 's level was the correct decision .
4	It was nice was it ?
5	It was boring was n't it ?
6	And we sat there , it was boring was n't it ?
7	She did not pay the £600 for renewal of her patent and the day after it was due was ordered by magistrates to be detained in the county lunatic asylum at Caxlodge , near Newcastle , having been found wandering by the police .
8	DENNING J. stated the facts and continued : If I were to consider this matter without regard to recent developments in the law , there is no doubt that , had the plaintiffs claimed it , they would have been entitled to recover ground rent at the rate of £2,500 a year from the beginning of the term , since the lease under which it was payable was a lease under seal which , according to the old common law , could not be varied by an agreement by parol ( whether in writing or not ) , but only by deed .
9	It was unnecessary was n't it ? oh yes I 'll want a bit of a hand then .
10	Oh it was two was it ?
11	Huckleberry Finn , it was good was n't it ?
12	It was good was n't it ?
13	It was good was n't it ?
14	It 'll be good , it was good was n't it Kevin ?
15	Oh yes it was good was n't it ?
16	but it was softer was n't it ?
17	you thinking how you used to talk to it was great was n't it ?
18	Yeah , well it was worthwhile was n't it ?
19	It was only when he started automatically to strip it that he realized what it was that was so different .
20	We are not told what precisely it was that was agreed at Grandmont ; we know only that Louis did not like it .
21	Same question , I just wondered who it was that was all .
22	Soft answer , she felt , might turn away wrath — whatever it was that was making her mother grumpy .
23	No , nothing at all about the lock and two years after closed and it was because of this because the men on the phone told me so and er anyway brought about the bridge and er I er accepted it , you know what I mean , it was that was it , I 'd done it myself .
24	And then it was boiled and boiled that it was er tender and that and then it was taken out and cut into bits and this is what a potted head And then it was That was done and then er Where the water what was boiled there was often fat but that was all skimmed off , and er next day there was as much water in the And er meat from the head was put in and pepper and salt and that , and then it was boiled again and then put into little dishes and that was your potted head .
25	The hay rick well it was That was what I speak about a a a cole Tramp cole where the hay r Hay was the tramp cole .
26	Whoever it was that was menacing her with letters ( a letter , she corrected herself , but feeling certain there would be more ) , whoever it was that had anything to do with her mother 's death , that person , or those persons , would belong to her father 's age group .
27	Well , if I knew that , Mr Barnes , I 'd know what it was that was n't right that day , would n't I ? ’
28	First to be built was a concrete block-house , reinforced with metal struts , which it soon became apparent was a large pill-box to protect whatever it was that was going to go up .
29	He touched them wonderingly , without fear , speculating on what it was that was different .
30	And it 's , it 's difficult for us to tell because we do n't have that many regional studies to be able to know exactly what it was that was determining these differences of values .