Example sentences of "it was [adj] [to-vb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My feeling — and Pam ( Ma Larkin ) , David ( Pa ) and Phillip ( Charley ) agreed — was that it was better to do four episodes really well than six halfheartedly . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | He and Tony got on well : they started arguing over whether it was better to have two bits of black pudding rather than two sausages in the terminal café , and when that battle was over they started another about who was going to have the window seat on the plane . |
| 4 | It was surprising to see two sports being played side by side in such harmony despite some savage tackling at short extra-cover . |
| 5 | The controversy over ordinary and honours degree pathways was to smoulder between CASS and CST , and the CASS pressure for the ending of the policy was countered consistently by CST with the argument that in science and technology it was appropriate to have two types of course , and that in general it considered students with lower abilities and attainments were more suitably educated ‘ in courses specially designed to make a different intellectual demand ’ . |
| 6 | In a study describing ten of these children it was possible to identify three groups of children : |
| 7 | For instance , even today they both use the same gauge guitar strings because in the old days it was cheaper to buy one gauge in bulk . |
| 8 | It was necessary to descend two steps to enter a room carpeted in a rich red , which contrasted strongly with white walls and black beams . |
| 9 | In order to arrive at his election and the election in passing of two other candidates , it was necessary to transfer 113 parcels of ballot papers , involving altogether 16,397 movements of votes . |
| 10 | To provide access to and from the Bypass it was necessary to provide five junctions — these are briefly described this : |
| 11 | ‘ First I would like to know why it was necessary to send two men to the flat to attack the hotel clerk . ’ |
| 12 | It was necessary to distinguish two questions . |
| 13 | While it was unrealistic to expect one practitioner , with such limited practice , to make a significant difference to the workload of the department , it was possible to identify patients whose waiting time had been shortened because they were able to see an ENP . |
| 14 | In his first Report to the Governors , Daniels noted that it was difficult to teach three languages , and so he had made German alternative to Latin in the Upper School , and French alternative in the Lower . |
| 15 | It was hard to believe twelve stones and I tried to clean the lens . |
| 16 | On Aug. 6 Canada had said that it was prepared to contribute 500 troops . |
| 17 | It was supposed to last six months but remained in effect for more than two years . |
| 18 | No I 'm just saying it 's harder for me , it was harder to have two people tutoring me because I , you were coming in with suggestions that you know already , you were n't , like then John was coming in |
| 19 | It was sufficient to programme one copy , which was then replicated many times . |
| 20 | Gradually the movement spread until by 1978 , it was able to assemble 5,000 people with a petition for which almost 1,300,000 signatures had been collected , but the petition received little attention from the authorities . |
| 21 | That same day he not only thought we were in Denmark but decided that it was imperative to write three letters to his cousin Marianne in New York — simultaneously ! |
| 22 | He could not help overhearing , in April 1986 , that North was about to go to Tehran , and asked Earl about it ; considering they were sitting side by side on the sofa , he said , it was bizarre to have one man briefed and the other not . |
| 23 | Mr Fallon said he thought it was fatuous to compare one income with another . |