Example sentences of "it was such " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arthur Ramsey was found with his injuries and in a state of shock and muttering , ‘ It was such a little thing , I was just trying to put my coat right . ’ |
| 2 | I was proud of getting accepted , particularly at St Martin 's because it was such a good art school , but Fine Art seemed a fast road to nowhere What kind of job can you get at the end of that ? |
| 3 | ‘ It was such a shock to me , ’ he said . |
| 4 | I mean , if it was such a rotten holiday , why hark back to it ? |
| 5 | He knew that there was a big market in Japan and that you could tour there fairly economically because it was such a small cluster of islands , and he just decided he would . |
| 6 | But it was such an unusual rise to fame , a situation that , apart from Elvis and The Beatles , there really was n't anyone else to make any reference to and say this is how they got through it all , because there had been nobody else of that size who had done it , and it 's hard to say how much of the rise to fame was attributed to DeFries . |
| 7 | It was such a bright sunny day that there was quite a holiday feeling in the air . |
| 8 | It was such a jolly little lighthouse , white , and standing at the very end of a promontory . |
| 9 | It was such violence as this , and that perpetrated at Cable Street , which encouraged a Conservative-dominated National government to introduce a Public Order Act at the end of 1936 . |
| 10 | It was such an important discovery that the Mayor and Corporation were persuaded to inspect it the following afternoon and the whole village turned out to wait for them . |
| 11 | It was an odd thing to say ( it would n't matter if the film was brilliant — it would still probably provoke mirth among non-believers ) , but then it was also an odd thing to see in a film which was presumably trying to revamp the alien invasion genre for a new age , because it was such a throwback to the cinematic aliens of the last few years . |
| 12 | ‘ But it was such a firm structure nothing had moved . |
| 13 | It was such a simple thing , to go against the consensus reality , but so few human beings could work up the willpower . |
| 14 | It was such a ‘ whisperer ’ who had informed Jack that men answering the brothers ' description had been seen drinking in an alehouse on Winkfield Plain , not five miles from Maidenhead , the day after the robbery . |
| 15 | The subsequent dismemberment of Inca society showed the faint enthusiasm the Spaniards had for this opportunity , yet it was such an idea which had given the term ‘ mestizo ’ a dignity beyond its racist translations of ‘ half-breed ’ or ‘ half-caste ’ . |
| 16 | I felt , at the time , it was such a shame . |
| 17 | It was such a pleasure now to wake each morning in the knowledge that she was near to her friends , and had no need to make a journey , in all weathers , to the school . |
| 18 | Indeed , he reflected , as he joined the queue at the traffic lights opposite the library , it was such a blindingly simple , brilliantly obvious idea , it was very difficult to think why everyone was n't doing it . |
| 19 | The fact that it was such an audacious ambition fired the imagination . |
| 20 | It was such a childish action that they all laughed again before he said , while striking a pose , ‘ You have a lot to learn Mr Farrier . ’ |
| 21 | It was such sayings as these that inspired the dervishes some of whom were in the armies of the Khalif and impressed the British soldiers as no other warriors ever did . |
| 22 | It was such an important day , a day of healing , of explanation , of real dialogue between mother and daughter . |
| 23 | It was such a laugh , so many theatricals all diving into the buffet . |
| 24 | Now the public were beginning to prefer the new ciné-variety as a form of entertainment because it was such good value . |
| 25 | This expired in 1978 , but by this time it was such an established force in user education in the USA that it was able to switch to being a self-financing , subscription-funded clearinghouse in that year . |
| 26 | But it was such a great opportunity , I could n't resist it . ’ |
| 27 | It was such a success that she decided to concentrate on fairs rather than open a shop . |
| 28 | When Rebecca Kraemer remarked , as the last murmurs of the slow movement died away , that it was such a pity the conductor was still following the now-discredited Haas edition , she was telling everyone within earshot — which included half the audience — everything that Alison could have wanted them to know but naturally would n't have dreamt of mentioning herself . |
| 29 | ‘ We asked them if they were going , and they said it would be pointless to roam all over Bristol , it was such a huge place and … |
| 30 | She was William Henry 's sister , and it was such a nice place . |