Example sentences of "it was [adv] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thom could safely be publicly discounted as an eccentric ( he was indeed something of an eccentric in many of his personal habits ) and a generally irrelevant gadfly , but it was rather more difficult to depict Hawkins 's computer in the same light . |
| 2 | It was plainly much easier to join the legions of the wicked who were n't fussy and were rather more eager for recruits than the exclusive godfearing . |
| 3 | Copies were not denigrated ; in fact , it was nearly as important to own an image that had a certain spiritual value and worth as it was to have something new . |
| 4 | But , of course , the devil finds work for idle hands , and they began thieving , acquiring all manner of things but particularly musical equipment When they realised it was mostly too hot to sell they thought maybe it was n't such a bad idea to learn how to play the stuff they had thieved . |
| 5 | There were many cases where Bloomsbury House was involved not at all , or only at the last moment when it was generally too late to offer any constructive help . |
| 6 | But it was surely too much to hope that it had taught the father a permanent lesson . |
| 7 | They were not , they were not dispensed with , well one could look back in seventy eight and say retrospectively how that process could have been started considerably earlier , er the honourable gentleman knows perfectly well that er as the Maastricht bill was winding its way through here it was n't really practical to run this but indeed the processes were started before the governing legislation was on the statute book and I quite understand why honourable gentlemen opposite wish to make their party points , particularly those particularly those who were not in the house in seventy eight which er does n't I think apply to the honourable gentleman from from Birmingham , when he knows perfectly well that the same kind of machinery is used now was used then and it was used as fairly and as honestly and as completely impartially as the time allowed . |
| 8 | But it was n't really convenient to have the porch used as a shelter or as a storage for Harry 's odd and rather smelly belongings . |
| 9 | It was n't really fair to snap like that but Melissa 's nerves were still jangling . |
| 10 | There began , too , to be a criss-cross of tracks and it was n't always easy to tell if they were the paths of animals or men . |
| 11 | He was screeching , sobbing and wailing with the aplomb of a professional mourner and it was n't always easy to understand what he was saying . |
| 12 | in December so it was n't actually possible to sort out these these queries . |
| 13 | He laughed softly as he moved away again , and Fran stormed into the room and slammed the door , but it was n't that easy to close the door on what he 'd said . |
| 14 | Embarrassment curled hotly through her as she remembered what she 'd read and she snatched up the case and marched towards the door , but it was n't that easy to push it from her mind , not when she remembered Luke Calder 's mockery . |
| 15 | She might have known it was n't that easy to fool him … |
| 16 | She groaned , pressing her hands over her ears , but it was n't that simple to cut off the insidious little voice . |
| 17 | Actually , it was n't that hard to miss them , because the real blues players were just getting no exposure at the time . |
| 18 | I would be surprised if it was n't still possible to go through ten years of education with only the faintest idea of what has been happening in the world , even your own country . |
| 19 | He went across to it , still thinking that it was n't too late to back out and close the door behind him and pretend that he 'd never even been in here . |
| 20 | Perhaps even now it was n't too late to change my soiled mind … |
| 21 | It was n't too hard to decide . |
| 22 | It looked as if somebody had been giving the place a pretty thorough airing , and it was n't too hard to guess who . |
| 23 | Privately , it was n't too difficult to discover in the Irish camp during the build-up to the match an acceptance that the backlash after the remarkable First Test would be fearsome . |
| 24 | As long as I ensured that she was in peak physical condition , it was n't too difficult to get her to fly further the next time . |
| 25 | And er the reason we took the biggest jug we could find it was n't so much to feed two children in the house you 're parents also wanted a bowl because believe me in those times we were we were hungry , we were dear , very very hungry . |
| 26 | It was n't so hard to do , the signposts were all in place and legible , yet he could not get his bearings . |
| 27 | They the frame was er constructed on on er two trestles and , of course , er you put your trestles so that you could balance it , so that it was n't so heavy to lift . |
| 28 | It was n't very much to go back . |
| 29 | It was n't very fair to feel betrayed by someone you loved , someone very close to you , simply because they 'd had the misfortune to die suddenly … |
| 30 | Cos I thought it was n't very fair to lend out the children 's stuff |