Example sentences of "[adj] it was [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The efficiency of government could only be increased at the expense of its popularity ; the more corrupt and less efficient the government , the more acceptable it was to creole merchants and landowners .
2 On the Monday they showed how easy it was for top-class bowlers to pitch the ball up and get wickets .
3 That 's how tight it was at that time o' day !
4 He never looked at the exit numbers , he said later , but he was sure it was between two exits on the M6 to Liverpool , roughly between seventeen and eighteen .
5 I 'm sure it was at one time .
6 I 'm sure it was in last month 's news
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