Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adj] to [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Managerial credit was given where it was due to Ally McCoist and Mark Hateley and , not unnaturally , Smith hoped for a continuation of their apparently insatiable craving for goals . |
| 2 | Full of interest and packed with information and statistics , it was a great performance , but the Dean frankly acknowledged that credit for it was due to Charles Gorham who had prepared the paper and had given it to him to read . |
| 3 | It was apparent to Miss Wharton , on that first day , that he had never been inside a church before , but neither then nor on any subsequent visit did he evince the least curiosity about its purpose . |
| 4 | It was adjacent to Saint Cloud , but it was of manageable proportions and it had great romantic charm . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) That , irrespective of the existence of the present system of national catch quotas , it was contrary to Community law , and in particular to article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 6 | It was similar to Herberts Court and , although containing three houses , had the same drawbacks . |
| 7 | It was important to Michael Ramsey , not only then but much later , that before Frank 's death he felt him to be less far apart over religion . |
| 8 | By 1947 it was obvious to John Swire that the future of transport in the East , as elsewhere , lay in the sky . |
| 9 | A few weeks later Mr Walker told Ruth of a premonition that he had had the previous night — it was identical to Mr Reynolds ' . |
| 10 | It might not be the most original football song but , given the dearth of lyrical ability on today 's terraces , it was reassuring to h ear Portsmouth 's fans singing at least something on Saturday . |