Example sentences of "it was [adj] [that] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if someone had asserted that it was inconceivable that a mammal should lay an egg and then a duck-billed platypus had turned up . |
| 2 | But no , it was inconceivable that the money they had made there could have paid for Harrods . |
| 3 | It was inconceivable that the member states would have agreed , after years of negotiations , to a Common Fisheries Policy based on rules of registration that were themselves incompatible with Community law . |
| 4 | It was offensive that a party should be so unprincipled as first to defeat the Government on a matter of fundamental constitutional importance ; and , having done so , should then take office on condition that it passed the measure . |
| 5 | It was predictable that the onerousness of the rating task held down response rate somewhat ( 33 per cent of a target population of 200 ) , but less predictably , great suspicion was aroused by the use of multiplication as a way of combining the two components of need for change . |
| 6 | When it was certain that the City of the Horizon would collapse , and all that it stood for , I wrote to him , to try to get him to save himself . |
| 7 | But it had been only to say some things about her son which it was better that a boy of eleven should n't catch ( 8 ) . |
| 8 | A similar processing difficulty is caused by relative and comparative clauses in which the introductory word ( who , which , than , etc ) has an embedded syntactic function ; for example in ( 8 ) : " some things about her son [ which it was better that a boy of eleven should n't catch ] " . |
| 9 | In retrospect , it was ironic that a year after Syria was partitioned , another small ethnic group took the opposite path to protect its identity . |
| 10 | In light of this appeal it was ironic that a superpower crisis developed from subsequent Soviet efforts to establish a missile base in Cuba . |
| 11 | It was ironic that the union should be taking place on a day when Christian Democrats had tabled a Strasbourg motion condemning Mr Major 's refusal to sign the Social Chapter of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 12 | Insp David Taylor of the British Transport police said it was fortunate that the train did not career off the track . |
| 13 | It was fortunate that the War had undermined his certainty . |
| 14 | It was fortunate that the weather was good and they could sleep in the open , but that did not solve the immediate problem of how they were to be fed . |
| 15 | In the midst of all this young life it was fortunate that the house was roomy enough for the professor still to get enough quiet and space to write . |
| 16 | It was fortunate that the time of the surge did not coincide perfectly with the high tide , otherwise damage might have been worse . |
| 17 | Surely it was odd that no light at all shone in the corridor ? |
| 18 | And it was odd that the boy was so resistant to being driven home . |
| 19 | It was odd that the party should get so quiet . |
| 20 | It was surprising that an industry generating so many millions of pounds was prepared to use little more than the manager 's sexual tastes as its yardstick of talent . |
| 21 | The plaintiff could not prove that the defendant knew it was a secret process either because of its nature or because he had been specifically told that it was and Vaisey J pointed out that if it were really secret it was surprising that the defendant 's employment had brought him into contact with it ; he had been to prison in the past . |
| 22 | In its mind it was convinced that the vet had returned to hurt it again . |
| 23 | It was symbolic that a group of prominent and progressively minded intellectuals tried , in 1902–03 , to open a dialogue with the hierarchy of the Orthodox Church . |
| 24 | William Guthrie , owner of the New Albert , said it was sad that the catering facility had not taken off . |
| 25 | It was apparent that a genius had been born . |
| 26 | At the end of the last chapter , it was apparent that the classification scheme which we are using is fallible . |
| 27 | It was apparent that the lack of visibility had altered Jotan 's intentions to a quite remarkable degree . |
| 28 | " We then proceeded with the examination of the boys in the presence of the Mayor and several Ladies and Gentlemen of the Town , Mr. Prescott [ sic ] the Rector of Stockport being the Examiner ; and considering the recent re-endowment and establishment of the School , and that many of the children when first admitted were unable to read , and the majority very backward in their learning , we have much pleasure in reporting that the result of this first public examination was very satisfactory and that it was apparent that the Master and Usher had faithfully discharged their duties . " |
| 29 | It was apparent that the kitchen was the only room with water and a sink ; hand washing as well as washing up must be done here , if at all . |
| 30 | By the end of 1991 it was apparent that the referendum to determine the future of the Western Sahara , which had been scheduled for Jan. 26 , would have to be postponed for at least nine months . |