Example sentences of "it was [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have become so used to spiteful obituaries that it was pleasant to find some kind thoughts about a dead writer . |
| 2 | There was no sense in inviting battle from a much stronger enemy ; it was better to delay any fighting in the hope of more allied troops arriving to even the numbers who faced each other south of Frasnes . |
| 3 | Mm that 's what I mean , I y we found that with four , is even more so , what some people were strong on others were n't and it it worked round you know , if you picked your team right everybody would thought perhaps it was better to have one woman in the team or , you know , if you had four women |
| 4 | She also said that it was better to eat left-over meat in Lent than go to market and incur debt through buying fish ( 241 , p.128 ) . |
| 5 | Surely it was better to follow any occupation , even a baker 's , a barber 's , a librarian 's , than commit the cardinal sin — for a Dutchman — . |
| 6 | Lilley stated that there was a clear shift in the balance between state provision and self provision and that it was right to shift this balance towards self provision as the wealth of the nation increased . |
| 7 | Paddock opinion agreed that it was ludicrous to imagine that Goodyear would be banned from international racing , a move that would destroy F1 at a stroke . |
| 8 | In five of them the nitrate level already exceeded 50 mg/litre and it was due to exceed that level in the others by 1991–2004 . |
| 9 | To confirm that it was due to free radical production he searched for a less complicated generator of oxygen radicals . |
| 10 | Meanwhile it was crucial to prevent popular unrest from spilling over into a major social and political crisis . |
| 11 | But it was easy to put another interpretation on his behaviour . |
| 12 | When it was easy to reach this man whose spirit was born out of the best of the desert traditions . |
| 13 | Once it was easy to attract hi-tech business to replace the shut down railworks . |
| 14 | It was easy to offend middle-class pride . |
| 15 | ‘ Because Schmincke pastels are so buttery in texture , it was easy to apply thick impasto strokes of light colour on the column and wall to achieve a brilliantly sunlit effect . |
| 16 | It was easy to avoid this tax by transferring assets before death . |
| 17 | He said it was premature to make further comment . |
| 18 | He 'd done good work on the drama pilot , and it was galling to hear this woman refer to it so dismissively . |
| 19 | We should have them a bit more often — it was good to have some fun with our friends and colleagues . ’ |
| 20 | His liquid ebony eyes told her it was a pointless question — just as it was pointless to make any attempt at civility . |
| 21 | was in Camplin that it was first established that rape could take place even though there was no force threatened or used provided that the victim did not consent to intercourse . |
| 22 | It was possible to spend all day wandering happily round and round the camp musing on the possibility of a hole cut in the wire here , a tunnel dug there , or an assault with scaling ladders somewhere else . |
| 23 | In the nineteenth century , it was possible to see female castration as a cure , just as it happens these days that women request cosmetic surgery to make their genitalia look ‘ more tidy ’ . |
| 24 | Replacement of the eroded ragstone facing could have provided a problem were it not for the fact that the builder who was employed to undertake the conversion was dismantling an identically constructed church at Canterbury at the same time and thus it was possible to import salvaged ragstone from the demolition for re-use at All Saints and St Barnabas . |
| 25 | In such a manner it was possible to disconnect spiritual significance from spatial co-ordinates . |
| 26 | Thanks to the assistance of the statistics department of Avon and Somerset Police , it was possible to answer this question and provide a fifth and final indicator of success . |
| 27 | Even without hearing the ineffable pitch of his bellow , it was possible to pick this man out in any circle . |
| 28 | Finally , it was possible to withdraw this part of the legislation as the services cover not only a more difficult area , but a quite distinct area of these provisions , without having repercussions on some of the other areas . … |
| 29 | Therefore it was possible to have supervening unenforceability . |
| 30 | The French army before Dreyfus appealed especially as a career in which it was possible to offer patriotic service untainted by compromise with the Republic . |