Example sentences of "[noun] and it was [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But they were a small club and it was hard work . |
| 2 | Four years later , however , a science programme on Australian radio accused McBride of scientific fraud and it was this accusation that eventually led local health authorities in New South Wales to begin the medical tribunal proceedings . |
| 3 | He was taking an unholy delight in her discomfiture and it was high time that he was taken down a peg . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't practise scoring direct from corner-kicks and it was just luck that the first one went in . |
| 5 | Convention , technique , and an empathy with the popular mind all went into the perfecting of the Chaplin act and it was these things that enabled him to become Sennett 's most accomplished pupil and which allowed him to create the cinema 's most appealing and most universal symbol . |
| 6 | Clearly many staff had found the self-appraisal to be a valuable exercise and it was such staff , it seems , that were most positive about the process as a whole and who were most willing to take seriously the advisers ' recommendations . |
| 7 | Tweed was desperately anxious to get to Freiburg and it was late afternoon already . |
| 8 | In their inception , these authorities were based on the fact that the payer and payee were not on an equal footing and it was this inequality which gave rise to the right to recovery . |
| 9 | ‘ Interest ’ , complained a reforming chaplain , was the only stimulant in the new philosophy and it was this philosophy that inspired nineteenth-century liberalism . |
| 10 | No I had a a chap at the door at half past four this afternoon and it was this woman for the British Market Research Bureau er |
| 11 | But it was a Vauxhall Astra van but I mean it was E reg and it was three years ago and it went for two thousand quid ! |
| 12 | Sadly , over the years , it has been far too easy for men such as Beck to infiltrate the sloppy system used by many local authorities and it was high time that the Government took steps to prevent further scandals . |
| 13 | In s.2(1) ( b ) the phrase " let another do so " still refers to the accused 's own existing liability and it was another way of committing the offence . |
| 14 | but we , we set off in a big building , well a building about four times the size of this these houses and it was all sheet steel wrapped in polythene packages |
| 15 | She 'd been here four days and it was high time she wrote to him . |
| 16 | What seemed likely to him was that Adam had allowed some undesirable person or persons access to the place and it was these vagrants or hippies — there had been a lot of hippies still about then — were responsible . |
| 17 | It is not being wise after the event to say it was a mistake to appoint Colin Harvey on his own in the first place and it was another mistake in re-appointing Kendall . |
| 18 | People had been staging revolutions without a great deal of success over the years and it was seventy percent of the people who were disadvantaged was n't it ? |
| 19 | The ghost of Linfield past has been laid to rest and it was former team manager Eric Bowyer who began the exorcism — in somewhat bizarre circumstances . |
| 20 | In the premier league it 's West Ham against Swindon at Upton Park … last season of course they faced each other in the first division … in London Town came out on top and it was this win that sparked their promotion run … so let's hope it 's lucky for them again |
| 21 | And William in there with fists flailing and Preston inevitably drawn in , too , as the fight spread until they were hauled off to the headmaster 's study for retribution ; he was a caning head and it was two strokes on each hand for a fight in the playground , four for the classroom . |
| 22 | The generalist dominates the decision-making procedure and it was this tradition that was heavily criticised by the Fulton Report ( 1968 ) on the civil service . |
| 23 | I had tried out Indonesian cooking with the chef , makeup , hairdressing and all sorts of things and it was good fun . |
| 24 | He looked small in the crush and it was some time before the order got through . |
| 25 | ‘ I expected it to be hard because , when we tested here last February , I did a full race distance and it was hard work , very painful . ’ |
| 26 | In these small manufactories adult labour was confined mainly to supervision and it was nimble-fingered children who , for wages of between 1 and 2s ( 5-10p ) a week , produced the pins . |
| 27 | funny thing there was a letter in the paper though er in the Legal last night and it was some woman who 'd written to say that erm , this little girl had collected two , over two hundred signatures for erm the er anti hunting |
| 28 | Mother was a Tallentire and it was that side of the family which had the interest in music and … well , talent , I suppose , like the first part of their name . |
| 29 | I do n't know of any boxing match that 's ever captured the interest of people and it was that night , course we never heard the result , not until we got to Egypt , you there was no wireless you see , you did n't know what was happening at all . |
| 30 | ‘ It was general knowledge that Swithlands operated such a policy and it was plain men were never going to be offered positions on the sales force , ’ he said . |