Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adj] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He claimed that , in a fully articulated theory of inflation , it was incorrect to assume that price expectations were static or , worse still , to ignore the role of price expectations altogether . |
| 2 | Watching the two of them play together during the session it was easy to see that Tom was active and restless while Sue would sit quietly and watch what was happening . |
| 3 | It was easy to anticipate that respondents would be sensitive about such matters , and it was our general tolerance of such fears that continually led us to try to pacify and reassure respondents . |
| 4 | It was good to think that life 's rich pageantry continued even on Baker Street , a much neglected London thoroughfare remembered only by devotees of Sherlock Holmes ( now the Abbey National ) and Gerry Rafferty ( who probably banks there ) . |
| 5 | It was good to know that Elinor would not be breathing this sweet , suburban air for very much longer . |
| 6 | It was good to know that supper would not always be like this . |
| 7 | It was possible to argue that Ostpolitik had , in the end , served to undermine the East German regime by reinforcing the liberal-democratic alternative to Communism in the minds of the East German people . |
| 8 | It was impossible to explain that strawberries were not available and nor was a copy of The Times . |
| 9 | In that case , it was logical to assume that Guy Sterne had decided at the last minute to avail himself of his unexpectedly empty villa for an impromptu break in the sun . |
| 10 | In some areas it was necessary to assume that adaptation of the organism to its environment is crucial both for survival and for long-term evolution . |
| 11 | While Aserbine lotion , an antibacterial desloughing agent , was appropriately used on two black , necrotic ulcers , it was disappointing to find that antiseptics were used more frequently on ‘ healthy granulating ’ or ‘ healing ’ ulcers ( 15 : 52 per cent ) than on ‘ infected ’ or ‘ yellow/brown ’ sloughy ulcers ( 14 : 48 per cent ; Table 5 ) . |
| 12 | But , as we saw in the discussion of neoclassicism , it was unrealistic to suppose that questions of intent and responsibility could be abandoned . |
| 13 | It was difficult to accept that Jane had no ulterior motives . |
| 14 | Firstly , it was difficult to ensure that teachers would act as anticipated by those who had set the project objectives — changes were not internalized by teachers and made routine in their classrooms ( Richards , 1983 ; Slater , 1985 ) . |
| 15 | It was difficult to believe that Howarth had n't entered his room since the discovery of the body . |
| 16 | Finally , it was important to ensure that Mrs Allen knew when and how to take the antibiotic prescribed by her GP . |
| 17 | It was hard to remember that God had made them , too , and that He begged for leniency for them . |
| 18 | The impression was of some sparsely populated , unchanging landscape ; it was hard to realise that Birmingham was less than thirty miles away . |
| 19 | It was hard to explain that things do n't work that way in Hull . |
| 20 | It was hard to imagine that giants had ever made Møn their home . |
| 21 | It was hard to believe that Father Poole was eighty years of age . |
| 22 | It was hard to believe that Katharine had n't done much more than a shoulder-in only an hour earlier ! |
| 23 | It was hard to believe that Howarth had worked here for almost a year . |
| 24 | At one point in the Report , the Wolfenden Committee argued that it was illogical to presume that boys needed greater protection from ‘ would-be seducers ’ than do girls . |
| 25 | In particular , Siegel ( 1967 ) found that a close examination of his results led to the conclusion ( see also Riley 1968 ) that it was unwarranted to assume that responses learned in the first stage could not be the source of the transfer seen in the second . |
| 26 | Since it was to act against hope , it was wrong to assume that defeat was an explicit sign of divine condemnation of a cause from which there could be no recovery . |
| 27 | All the early supplies of penicillin which came to the public were manufactured in America , and , in America at least , it was natural to assume that penicillin was an American discovery . |
| 28 | She had seen this money before , of course , and still had a little collection of it that she had made as a child , yet it was disconcerting to reflect that Johnny would use it as part of his everyday life . |
| 29 | It was an exhausting process and it was hurtful to think that Tom was so unsure of us . |
| 30 | At one time it was fashionable to argue that Darwinism destroyed the traditional belief that Nature had been created by a wise and benevolent God , thereby ushering in an age of rampant materialism . |