Example sentences of "it was [adv] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was soon after this incident that Sien moved in with him . |
| 2 | Derek seems to remember that it was shortly after this change that a couple of what could have been nasty instances occurred . |
| 3 | This was partly because he was not exceptionally bright while being at the same time exceptionally unimaginative , but it was also because odd carvings and perilous tunnels were all in a day 's work . |
| 4 | It was just that one word , but it was enough . |
| 5 | It was n't , he thought , that he and Jordan got lines so much worse than anyone else , it was just that more people were listening to them . |
| 6 | It was just that some days could be rather less fine than others . |
| 7 | Ironically , it was just as such images of contentment began to vanish that the taste for the picturesque caused the upper classes to fall in love with the idea of the cottage . |
| 8 | It was simply that most people , while wanting the ends , preferred to walk away from the means : especially when they were distasteful , and most especially when they failed . |
| 9 | It was then that Fat Watt regarded them most sullenly as though their nearness was a threat . |
| 10 | It was more than 10 years before Serfaty could bring himself to speak and write about the terrible things that had happened to him and his colleagues . |
| 11 | While the judge said some questions remained unresolved , Microsoft 's lawyer David McDonald concluded : ‘ If it is n't a complete victory , it was more than 95 p.c. of the way . ’ |
| 12 | It was more than five years since she had seen him and she was saying he had n't changed . |
| 13 | At the end of 1886 the tunnel was opened to passenger and goods traffic ; it was more than four miles long and its construction occupied almost fourteen years , at a cost of more than £2 million . |
| 14 | It was more than nine metres long and three metres tall . |
| 15 | Some five days after the last girder had gone up — it was more than fifty metres high — Mrs Goreng came to me , eyes alight and finger on her lips . |
| 16 | Fred Goodyear was so shocked that it was more than eight hours before he raised the alarm . |
| 17 | Amidst scenes of carnage it was more than two hours before Muawad 's death was officially announced . |
| 18 | Amidst scenes of carnage it was more than two hours before Muawad 's death was officially announced . |
| 19 | It was more than two decades since he had taken offence at the term-a term used all the while in court , where the Han were predominant and the few Caucasians treated as honorary Han — yet here , in the Domain , he felt the words incongruous , almost — surprisingly — insulting . |
| 20 | Donna guessed that it was more than two months since she had been to the cottage . |
| 21 | The practice was as old as the Middle Kingdom itself and formed one link in the great chain of tradition , but it was more than mere ritual , it was a living ceremony , an act of deep respect and celebration , almost a poem to the honoured dead . |
| 22 | It was more than 2 hours before accident investigators allowed the digger to be lifted out , so the body could be removed . |
| 23 | It was more than 20 year ago . ’ |
| 24 | An early estimate suggested that it was more than seven times as high , when social disadvantage was defined by the presence of all three of the following indices : overcrowding ( more than 1.5 persons per room ) , low income ( supplementary benefit or free school meals ) and adverse family circumstances ( coming from a single-parent home or a home with more than five children ) ( Wedge and Prosser , 1973 ) . |
| 25 | It was more than three metres long , and was lying still . |
| 26 | However , it was more than three years later ( The New Republic , March 1926 ) that Wilson brought Eliot 's poetry home to the bosoms of his countrymen . |
| 27 | It was perhaps as well John Hounsell had been given some forewarning . |
| 28 | A police spokesman said : ‘ With hindsight it was less than perfect service on our part . ’ |
| 29 | The issue will complete the transformation of the Postbank , which is the world 's largest postal savings bank , from a sleepy adjunct to the Dutch post office , which it was less than five years ago , to an international banking force . |
| 30 | It was less than seventy-two hours since he had heard of the finding of Riddle 's clothes , but it seemed much longer . |