Example sentences of "it was [adj] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus in Mason v. New South Wales , 102 C.L.R. 108 , Dixon C.J. clearly had doubts as to whether it was right that money paid pursuant to an unlawful demand of the Crown should not be recoverable . |
| 2 | Nigel had reasoned that , as most washing originated where one divested oneself of one 's dirty clothes and bed linen , i.e. the top floor , it was poor time-and-motion study to have the cleaning apparatus on the ground floor . |
| 3 | It was normal diplomatic protocol to exchange presents when delegations met , and Umanskii detects a distinct difference between these gifts and those which yasak-paying tribes gave originally voluntarily , but later on under coercion . |
| 4 | Oh , I do n't deny that it was all great fun striving to get to the top , ’ she went on , ‘ but we 've done it , have n't we ? |
| 5 | But it was one more fact to add to the picture of Ted Mosse , that ambiguous figure who was heavily disliked in one street , a doubtful ‘ poor old fellow ’ in another , and more or less mistrusted in all three . |
| 6 | To us it was one more thing to cope with . |
| 7 | It was one less thing to hyperventilate about . |
| 8 | Captain Bowen said it was possible commercial aircraft did not pick up a signal from the emergency beacon , and the radio messages could have been confused with another vessel . |
| 9 | Politically , it was essential last summer to distance the government from what had clearly been a shabby episode . |
| 10 | It was sheer bloody hell listening to all those fatuous nincompoops saying what a great guy you are . |
| 11 | And that this wealth was not locked in land or designated for heirs : it was fine fresh wealth coming into the great port of Liverpool by the month , by the week even , in the form of Ceylon tea , Indian jute , Irish coal — Mr Crump had an encyclopaedia of imports which he rattled off in diffident haste . |
| 12 | It was this alleged inability to set the record straight which increasingly became the central focus of Republican attacks on the degree to which Clinton 's character was suitable for the highest office in the country . |
| 13 | Some nativist elements in the host community were critical of what they saw as an assault on local culture by alien Jewish values and it was this ethnocentric attitude to change , when allied to the existence of genuine social grievances , which was to make some parts of the East End a fertile reception area for racial populist and anti-immigrant movements right through from the British Brothers League in 1900 , the BUF from 1936 to 1940 , the League of Ex-Servicemen and the Union Movement in the 1940s , to the National Front in the 1970s . |
| 14 | Not for the first time , Lucien wondered exactly what it was this peculiar boy hoped to gain from dragging his history out of him . |
| 15 | Critical reaction was generally favourable , although it was clear many writers found it confusing . |
| 16 | Mr said it was clear both defendants had played a part in causing James Bulger 's death . |
| 17 | And then it was another three days travelling by coach across France , and by ferry to Dover where they arrived last night . |