Example sentences of "[that] it [was/were] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All of the 130 pupils thought that it was a great way to end our five years at Bohunt . ’ |
| 2 | Tom read just enough of it to see that it was a long way from West Hampstead and no one he knew had been killed or injured . |
| 3 | The Yasa was made when your grandsire and mine both thought that it was a long way from Kinsai to the Eastern Sea , ’ he growled . |
| 4 | In the end they agreed that it was a fair way of sharing the inheritance , and so the legal steps were taken to transfer equal shares to all of us . |
| 5 | I did not believe that it was a sensible way of making policy . |
| 6 | My argument does not even assume that it was a dominant way of thinking in earlier periods . |
| 7 | Mr Ridley 's ‘ mindedness ’ to allow Foxley Wood depended on his view that it was a sounder way of ensuring Hampshire 's share of new housing in the South-east than the county 's own thinking , which assumed finding dozens of smaller sites . |