Example sentences of "[adj] it [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this it was only a step to the French and English abbreviation ‘ jade ’ . |
| 2 | ( For some it was simply a road to oblivion . ) |
| 3 | The woman leaned across her typewriter and flashed a smile so chummy it was almost a grin . |
| 4 | They started now as the sound of breaking china came to them , followed by Mrs Carver 's voice on a note so high-pitched it was almost a scream , as she cried , ‘ Out of me way ! |
| 5 | Most likely it was just a joke . |
| 6 | So what , we 'd have to make sure it was exactly the right , the same amount and , in the same flame and the same and see how long it took and whatever took the longest went I du n no whatever ? |
| 7 | He was sure it was only a matter of time . |
| 8 | But most of all it was just an excuse for an orgy . ’ |
| 9 | [ … ] Where books were inadequate it was usually a result of their sketchy approach to a subject . |
| 10 | Underpowered , overweight and outdated , the once 200 strong fleet , affectionately known as ‘ Whistlers ’ was in decline from the mid-1970s , and when major overhauls ceased at BREL Crewe in 1981 it was only a question of time before they disappeared first from top link Eastern Region duties , and finally in 1985 freight workings originating from the North West . |
| 11 | In the 1970s it was only a curiosity but around 1980 it had a renaissance when people discovered that in certain complicated molecules , involving both deuterium and tritium , the presence of a muon caused fusion to occur much faster than had been previously thought possible . |
| 12 | And as far as Daniele was concerned it was just a business arrangement , nothing else . |
| 13 | At first it was just a dot in the valley below , perched on the topmost branch of a lightning-blasted conifer . |
| 14 | At first it was just the driver 's door , but now the other side doors are starting to leak . |
| 15 | In 1934 it was still a struggle — a fridge was bought on hire purchase over two years — and the Professional missed being ‘ laid off ’ only by the Chairman 's casting vote , on the proposal ‘ that the present position of the Club was such he should move on ’ . |
| 16 | So low it was almost a vibration . |
| 17 | H.G. Wells describes how ‘ Spectators would fall a-talking of the fashionableness of bicycling — how judges and stock-brokers and actresses , and , in fact all the best people rode — and how that it was often the fancy of such great folk to shun the big hotels … and seek , incognito , the cosy quaintness of village life . ’ |
| 18 | At best it was either a publicity stunt designed help sell third-rate books or a neat piece of disinformation put out by the Russians in order to sow confusion amongst the West 's intelligence agencies . |
| 19 | Four fences out , Llewellyn made his move , and from the next it was merely a question of whether Party Politics could hold on or whether Romany King could peg him back . |
| 20 | Dickens likened the piston of the steam engine to " the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness " , but even by 1815 it was only a minority of the working population who had as yet been cast in the mould of his 1845 Coketowners who , " all went in and out at the same hours , with the same sound upon the same pavements , to do the same work , and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and to-morrow " . |