Example sentences of "[adv] it was [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it was for the best . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was for the same reason that Mrs Parvis , so Gloria claimed , put crushed up egg-shells into powdered egg so that the lodgers would think they were eating something which they were n't . |
| 3 | So it was to the same mortuary as Jacob that the undertaker 's van took the two coffins . |
| 4 | So it was with the other hostages . |
| 5 | So it was from the early 1960s that his career became inextricably linked to its growing success . |
| 6 | The corporation had assumed responsibility for the site in 1945 and had purchased the land in 1957 , although technically it was in the rural district area . |
| 7 | Emily 's mind was partly on the enjoyable walk she had taken with Heinrich , who had unexpectedly proved a most delightful companion during the week ; partly on the bright green foulard dress she had seen on sale at Bobby 's in Margate yesterday when they visited the famous menagerie at the Grand Hall by the Sea , and partly it was on the coming evening . |
| 8 | Ironically it was during the very period that heroin was covertly establishing a hold in the community that concern about adolescents misusing solvents was the subject of official response . |
| 9 | Inevitably it was into the long rows of tents , pavilions and blanketed men that they plunged . |
| 10 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 11 | Well it was for the next two years . |
| 12 | Oh yeah , well it was during the nineteen fourteen eighteen war . |
| 13 | Well it was like the two soldiers and the one person just holds it the other person just tried and knock the head off . |
| 14 | For George Melly it was in the late 1940s and '50s ‘ the antidote to the grey and worthy austerity of the post-war world ’ . |
| 15 | Yet simultaneously and apparently paradoxically it was during the nineteenth century that the debate about sexuality exploded . |
| 16 | And I 've said that you know I 'd rather it was on the soft but whether it will get |
| 17 | It is hard to believe that the success of a Medau Teacher Training Course ( and therefore our regional development ) should have to depend on the proceeds of a raffle , but that 's just how it was in the late '60s in MANCHESTER . |
| 18 | Mr France joined the Conservative Association on February 19 as ‘ an act of sheer desperation , because I feared the country would return to how it was in the 1970s ’ . |
| 19 | remember how it was in the first place so if you cut four in half , remember four |
| 20 | Whatever lay ahead , maybe it was for the best . |
| 21 | Well , maybe it was for the best . |
| 22 | The first two weeks of the course were spent in the classroom on the groundschool phase and then it was into the flying phase with a daylight jet refresher on the Meteors for the pilots before going on to the B.2s . |
| 23 | If this was so , then it was despite the considerable success of many groups of skilled workers in obtaining a succession of wage increases . |
| 24 | ‘ Initially it was for the sheer hell of it , ’ she said . |
| 25 | Yet it was through the derided Teenybop that the next pop generation came , as young women quickly moved from varieties of Osmond to something a bit meatier — men who instead of masking the femininity of the adored object , flaunted it and made it part of the package . |
| 26 | Yet it was from the delirious welcome accorded to him by his partisans in the Madrid streets that Ferdinand VII formed his conceptions of political power ; in 1814 he was to use the Aranjuez mixture of plebeian loyalty and army support in order to defeat the liberal constitution . |
| 27 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |
| 28 | It achieved tabloid status in April 1985 , when it was on the front page of the Daily Mirror 's conservation shock issue ; and , as a symbol of wildlife under threat , it is a sure money-maker for such causes as the World Wildlife Fund . |
| 29 | In registered motion paths , you click for each node , and so can accurately define where the actor will be in each frame relative to where it was in the last frame . |