Example sentences of "it was [art] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it came to her turn to scramble ashore , she found it was no easy task to move the balance beam which swung the gates open . |
| 2 | But the revolution had now spread to campuses , and it was no good booksellers putting up the barricades . |
| 3 | This race had all the earmarks of a mediocre 1,000 Guineas rehearsal and it was no great surprise to see Musicale , the winner of last Friday 's Fred Darling Stakes , at Newbury , cut to as low as 11–4 favourite for the 1,000 Guineas , on April 30 after yesterday 's race . |
| 4 | So it was no skin off my nose , it was no big deal to shut up shop in the middle of the day . |
| 5 | Stranger this new guest might be , certainly Cadfael had never seen him before , but it was no particular problem to work out who he must be , even if that left his presence here as a mystery . |
| 6 | " It was a political decision made by the government and not by the Federation , " Bland said . |
| 7 | An attempt by 54 National Assembly deputies to prevent the registration of the MRF , on the grounds that it was a political party founded on ethnic allegiance , failed on Oct. 1 when the Supreme Court upheld the CEC 's decision to register the MRF . |
| 8 | ‘ Killers are usually stupid but some people might think it was a clever move to do just that . |
| 9 | It was a logical place to build a city . |
| 10 | It was a faint constellation lying between Leo and Gemini , and a twelfth of the world 's population born under its sign had long pincers and never let go . |
| 11 | It was a genuine privilege to work with them because you could be the richest person in the world and then some , and still not be able to buy the experience that they carried within them . |
| 12 | Nigel said it was a genuine chance to win … that 's all he was there for |
| 13 | It was a genuine attempt to explore the innate bases of behaviour and their social implications , even if something of the confused Darwinian metaphor remained . |
| 14 | He scorned the theory that it was a static charge leaping across the gap and is more inclined to the view that somehow mechanical energy is being converted to light . |
| 15 | In spite of all the work done by Ludwig Prandtl and his colleagues , it was a daring step to commit the resources of the mighty Germania yards , in early 1924 , to install two metal cylinders more than 12 m tall on the elegant schooner Buckau , so soon after the idea had ignited Flettner 's imagination in 1921 . |
| 16 | And he is quick to point out that it was a joint decision to make a serious bid . |
| 17 | It was a long way to drive on the off-chance that something would come of it . |
| 18 | ‘ It was a long way carrying the baby . ‘ |
| 19 | No it was a long way to come from Plymouth you know so we did n't know . |
| 20 | It was a long bus-ride to reach those low huts standing behind the high fence . |
| 21 | Besides , Adam had said it was a long detour to get back on to the main road , if this lane was cut off . |
| 22 | It was a long time to wait , but not impossible . |
| 23 | It was a long time to stay quiet all day until eight o'clock at night . |
| 24 | It was a long time coming . |
| 25 | Because the data were easily convertible into numerical form , it was a straightforward exercise to seek correlations and larger than chance differences in perception between first and third year students , and student and employer samples . |
| 26 | it was a floating restaurant loses money on it . |
| 27 | By French standards , it was a unpolished performance lacking spark , adventure , not entirely entirely dissimilar to the one they produced against Scotland and England . |
| 28 | It was a pitiful sight to watch him scrabbling about under the frames with that horrible thing chewing at his leg like an iron bulldog . |
| 29 | It was a strong cross-wind gusting to over thirty knots across the runway when the Citation touched down . |
| 30 | It seems that it was a hasty decision to take away the armoured car , which had become inseparable from the city 's history . |