Example sentences of "it was [adj] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the Right-Ons , many of whom had committed the cardinal mistake of taking other people 's newspapers too seriously , it was inconceivable that this diet of trash should be allowed to succeed . |
| 2 | It was young and shy Nadine on duty , so I got a large portion of chicken in white wine sauce with rice ( how is it that the French can cook rice that never sticks ? ) and a bottle of Pils for next to nothing . |
| 3 | It was better than Blue Peter . |
| 4 | It was better than formal interviews for probing attitudes to an area of social life where women expressed lack of interest . |
| 5 | Life in Russia for Western defectors is a severe cultural shock , although for George Blake it was better than 30 years in a British prison . |
| 6 | It was five or six minutes later that Piladu appeared on the mountainside , stared at them for sometime and then tramped slowly towards them tightly wrapped in his hooded cloak . |
| 7 | It was five or six storeys high , employed three hundred men , and was driven by the water-power of the river Derwent . |
| 8 | ‘ See you later , ’ he 'd say , and often it was five or six hours later . |
| 9 | Bolivia is no longer the tremendously cheap country it was five or six years ago , and anything organised expressly for foreign travellers costs almost what it would in Europe . |
| 10 | It was five or ten minutes before they and the studio audience could control themselves . |
| 11 | I was sitting in the car park and I appreciated the area very much , it was nice , clean area but when I came to Walsall it was smoky and dirty area I 'm sorry to say that and er , but I had no alternative but to stay here because my father was here , I had no money and er , I thought because of relations job prospects might be better here than elsewhere . |
| 12 | He told Daniel about the terrible St Rémy painting of the blasted tree , about noir-rouge , and Daniel said that it was odd that these orchards should be all over the walls of other asylums now , to cheer people up . |
| 13 | It was bigger than any dog I had ever seen . |
| 14 | Best played at Old Trafford during Manchester United 's modern heyday , Marinello was consigned to an Arsenal side never quite sure whether it was mediocre or downright crap . |
| 15 | When I came to the Cotswolds and looked for a studio , before I even looked for house , I found a great barn , a wonderful old building , except that it was cathedral-like and freezing cold in the winter . |
| 16 | It was sad that this feeling of desire and affection — so alien to him — had been wasted on such a creature . |
| 17 | From our interviews and observations it was apparent that many members were experiencing frustration through a lack of sense of direction or achievement in this field ( in the survey 25% of respondents felt that their board had achieved little in any field of activity ) , although they were not clear how this might be improved . |
| 18 | In so far as Japan was concerned , it was apparent that all profits made from their ‘ British ’ made products went back to Japan to boost their economy and to further their influence into the European markets . |
| 19 | As the afternoon progressed it was apparent that any amateur who could play to his handicap in these conditions was going to do very well . |
| 20 | But it was encouraging that some journalists were genuinely interested in trying to help and did feel that what had happened to John could have easily happened to them . |
| 21 | It was crucial that Soviet leaders came to trust non-Marxist and not necessarily pro-Soviet Finnish political forces to abide by the military provisions of the 1948 Finnish-Soviet Friendship and Cooperation Treaty which met Soviet security needs in the direction of Finland comprehensively and permitted the expression of the Finnish brand of neutrality . |
| 22 | It was worse than last year , with Hanna Brunner , but the high spirits of the company , knowing they were creating quite a stir , knowing they were good , all of them , made it bearable . |
| 23 | ‘ It was two or three minutes before he collapsed . |
| 24 | It was n't er , it was n't a very long one was it , it was two or three months was it ? |
| 25 | This general theme is perhaps even more relevant now to the field of special educational needs than it was two or three years ago when the initial decision about the conference topic was made . |
| 26 | Coun Ken Walker ( Lib Dem ) said : ‘ The state of the river is better than it was two or three years ago but I would like to see more resources spent on the worst sections ; in the town centre . |
| 27 | It was two or three days earlier that I had made my appointment , and as luck so often has it , the due day arrived to what can only be described as ‘ one of those days ’ . |
| 28 | Similarly , David Hackett Fischer maintains that growing old ‘ is an experience profoundly different today from what it was two or three centuries ago ’ , although the only explanation he can offer is one grounded in modernization theory . |
| 29 | Actually , it was one and thirty years ago , but according to Tennyson 's recent biographer , Robert Bernard Martin , the poet deliberately put euphony before mere factuality . |
| 30 | Fears were also expressed by some passengers that the tunnel might collapse while they were travelling through it or that they might suffocate from the lack of air because it was one and three quarter miles long ! |