Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adj] [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | and th they , it was an old Indian treatment , they found it quite , sheer force of circumstances , er , that they discovered it was better sometimes to bind a wound up and leave it alone . |
| 2 | It was wide enough to provide a stable grip on the timber edge , and could be adjusted rapidly . |
| 3 | It was long enough to need a semaphore to signal from one end to the other , dark enough so you would never have seen the flags , and so narrow we had to squeeze past the single bed by the door to reach the open land before the next one . |
| 4 | Burun was amazed to see that the hilt of the weapon was almost entirely unguarded and that it was long enough to permit a double-handed grip . |
| 5 | You were so young , at an age to want to experiment and to find a DJ a glamorous figure , that I imagined it was superficial enough to have a time limit on it . |
| 6 | It was difficult enough to cut a perfect master 78rpm disc with a duration of only five minutes . |
| 7 | Again , it was bad enough to have a surge associated with high spring tides , but it could have been associated with equinoctial springs seven weeks later with even more disastrous results . |