Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] it was [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The modern practice of flailing the remaining hedges with crude machinery has not only destroyed the possibility of such views , but has also led to a considerable reduction of bird and animal life The landscape is much poorer both visually and in content than it was thirty years ago . |
| 2 | She had never felt such a queer sensation before and was suddenly sad because it was this man who was going to take her innocence away from her . |
| 3 | ‘ Not as dangerous as it was last night , I can assure you . ’ |
| 4 | She thought that her father probably now earned more than £100,000 a year , but she did not know for sure because it was nine years since she had last visited him , four years since she had last received a Christmas card from him . |
| 5 | I were n't sure whether it was last Thursday , Friday or Saturday or this |
| 6 | But it is seldom given as good an excuse for playing rough as it was this week by the blunder of the guerrilla force that has been fighting it for 23 years in Namibia and by the embarrassing unreadiness of the United Nations peacekeeping force to do its job of supervising the Namibian peace settlement . |
| 7 | He says things have been getting more busy but it 's still not as busy as it was last year . |
| 8 | Federal and Capital we er , is , is a small business er , but highly profitable and er , it 's a subscription business so that the cash comes in advance and er , the er , the only criticism I have of Federal and Capital is that it 's , it , it , it , it would be nice if it was five times bigger than it is . |
| 9 | I was not certain whether it was Christian principle or a more cautious understanding of contraception than I had . |
| 10 | The bombing was , she argued , intended to dislodge the Qaddafi regime in Libya-even though it was civilian property as much as air-bases that were bombed , with much loss of life amongst children and others . |
| 11 | I 've never seen anyone so astonished unless it was dear Beryl . |