Example sentences of "it was [adj] [to-vb] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chairman er in his remarks a bit earlier on Professor said that he did not think it was appropriate to give executive power to the director of education I wrote your words down at the time he did not think it appropriate to give executive power to the director of education and he said , despite Mr 's clarification you want to move a bit nearer if you 're going to be his minder Mr that in fact he did n't |
| 2 | However , it was encouraging to see Wayne Pollock get on the score sheet in his debut match with a goal off the back of his head as he stood watching a flock of swans fly overhead . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , it was amazing to hear John Bullock of the Independent say on the BBC 's Comment programme that the Friends of John McCarthy had actually altered British government policy on the Iran — Iraq War . |
| 4 | It was good to see Terry Howse back in action for Post Office A and he contributed a win in the 6–4 victory over Windsor Hawks . |
| 5 | It was good to see South Africa back in the international fold after so long . |
| 6 | It was good to read Leslie Patterson 's article in September 's Amicus to find that her committee meetings are no different from our meetings , with frivolous items ( such as peeled grapes ! ) to important items which affect us all , like the office 's smoking policy and PEARL . |
| 7 | It was possible to examine sickness absence within an organisation with a single sickness absence policy . |
| 8 | When all that was available was the free-fall bomb , air-delivered systems were essential to the deterrent , but , once the first land and sea-launched ballistic missiles were to hand , it was possible to have weapons systems that operated from comparatively safe sanctuaries and , in the case of Polaris , from the virtually impenetrable depths of the sea . |
| 9 | Thus no virtue was made of complexity , and the sense of touch and feel and shape and form of the workers was utilised to the full and resulted in a process in which it was possible to democratise decision-making processes in design involving masses of people . |
| 10 | Dr Ken Currie , the head of the government 's Energy Technology Support Unit , had similar reservations when he told the Cabinet at a seminar on climate change in April 1989 that technically it was possible to halve carbon dioxide emissions ( the longer-term Toronto objective ) . |
| 11 | It was possible to grow Trichomonas vaginalis from these plates . |
| 12 | In eight out of ten catchments the report 's authors calculated that the immediate cost of water treatment or blending was less than the ‘ local cost ’ of farming measures , but , once Exchequer savings from reduced agricultural production were included ( i.e. savings in public grants and subsidies paid to farmers to produce crops ) , in most cases it was cheaper to establish protection zones with curbs on farming than to treat the polluted water . |
| 13 | It was great to watch Jim play at the Guitarist Show last November . |
| 14 | IT WAS great to see Prince Charles pictured with his children at Sandringham this Christmas . |
| 15 | IT WAS impossible to miss Neil Kinnock on TV on Saturday . |
| 16 | As Carr pointed out , it was impossible to restore market relations in agriculture without doing the same for industry . |
| 17 | It was impossible to refuse Mr Mafouz 's gifts . |
| 18 | Silviu Brucan , a leading NSF member , was reported on Feb. 3 as stating that it was impossible to share executive power among so many parties . |
| 19 | It was impossible to transfer sound waves mechanically from one flat disc to another without getting into geometrical difficulties , and an ordinary gramophone was not loud enough to be put in front of an acoustic recording horn . |
| 20 | Newsround felt it was worthwhile to give readers information about the efforts that are being made by the Council to ensure its views on reform are known and presented as effectively as possible . |
| 21 | A report in the Liverpool Daily Post quoted a Birmingham City Council member as saying that it was necessary to control fox numbers ‘ on public health grounds ’ . |
| 22 | It is a large figure , but the County Council was breaking er , new ground in the sale of link waste , and it was necessary to engage specialist lawyers , erm , Lond a firm of er , London solicitors er , to assist in the in the process , and members will recall that in fact , the the proceeds from the sale of link waste were four point two million pounds initially , with potentially another four hundred thousand pounds , erm , once certain conditions were satisfied . |
| 23 | ‘ We would have been happy to let the variable premium scheme that expired in April 1989 run forever , but the CAP reforms focused on a 30 per cent reduction in cereal prices over three years and the commission decided it was necessary to compensate beef farmers feeding cattle on grass , ’ he said . |
| 24 | It was fascinating to hear hir talk ; pretending first one minute you were talking to a girl , and then the next , a boy . |
| 25 | It said that it was difficult to use insurance mechanisms to cut car crime , but two years on , it is now using insurance premiums formidably well . |
| 26 | Until development of this system it was difficult to do pattern matching if movements being compared were over varying time periods . |
| 27 | It was difficult to calculate Hewlett-Packard Co 's margins , he said , because it has a wider-ranging business . |
| 28 | And just when you thought it was safe to ignore Prisoner Cell Block H , Neighbours , Home And Away , Kylie , Jason , Dame Edna and Clive James — along comes another Australian export . |
| 29 | It was important to retain Lloyd George , not just as the man who had won the war but also as a man who could talk to the working class ; and if a revolutionary situation were to arise , then it would be far better if Unionists could call on Liberals to help resist it . |
| 30 | It was hard to top Michael Caine , and later the woman confessed she was n't even sure about that one . |