Example sentences of "it was [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have become so used to spiteful obituaries that it was pleasant to find some kind thoughts about a dead writer . |
| 2 | Lilley stated that there was a clear shift in the balance between state provision and self provision and that it was right to shift this balance towards self provision as the wealth of the nation increased . |
| 3 | Paddock opinion agreed that it was ludicrous to imagine that Goodyear would be banned from international racing , a move that would destroy F1 at a stroke . |
| 4 | In five of them the nitrate level already exceeded 50 mg/litre and it was due to exceed that level in the others by 1991–2004 . |
| 5 | To confirm that it was due to free radical production he searched for a less complicated generator of oxygen radicals . |
| 6 | Meanwhile it was crucial to prevent popular unrest from spilling over into a major social and political crisis . |
| 7 | But it was easy to put another interpretation on his behaviour . |
| 8 | When it was easy to reach this man whose spirit was born out of the best of the desert traditions . |
| 9 | Once it was easy to attract hi-tech business to replace the shut down railworks . |
| 10 | It was easy to offend middle-class pride . |
| 11 | ‘ Because Schmincke pastels are so buttery in texture , it was easy to apply thick impasto strokes of light colour on the column and wall to achieve a brilliantly sunlit effect . |
| 12 | It was easy to avoid this tax by transferring assets before death . |
| 13 | He said it was premature to make further comment . |
| 14 | He 'd done good work on the drama pilot , and it was galling to hear this woman refer to it so dismissively . |
| 15 | We should have them a bit more often — it was good to have some fun with our friends and colleagues . ’ |
| 16 | His liquid ebony eyes told her it was a pointless question — just as it was pointless to make any attempt at civility . |
| 17 | It was possible to spend all day wandering happily round and round the camp musing on the possibility of a hole cut in the wire here , a tunnel dug there , or an assault with scaling ladders somewhere else . |
| 18 | In the nineteenth century , it was possible to see female castration as a cure , just as it happens these days that women request cosmetic surgery to make their genitalia look ‘ more tidy ’ . |
| 19 | Replacement of the eroded ragstone facing could have provided a problem were it not for the fact that the builder who was employed to undertake the conversion was dismantling an identically constructed church at Canterbury at the same time and thus it was possible to import salvaged ragstone from the demolition for re-use at All Saints and St Barnabas . |
| 20 | In such a manner it was possible to disconnect spiritual significance from spatial co-ordinates . |
| 21 | Thanks to the assistance of the statistics department of Avon and Somerset Police , it was possible to answer this question and provide a fifth and final indicator of success . |
| 22 | Even without hearing the ineffable pitch of his bellow , it was possible to pick this man out in any circle . |
| 23 | Finally , it was possible to withdraw this part of the legislation as the services cover not only a more difficult area , but a quite distinct area of these provisions , without having repercussions on some of the other areas . … |
| 24 | Therefore it was possible to have supervening unenforceability . |
| 25 | The French army before Dreyfus appealed especially as a career in which it was possible to offer patriotic service untainted by compromise with the Republic . |
| 26 | In the shops it was possible to buy imported vodka , but not Polish ; supply could not meet demand . |
| 27 | The idea was that through deconditioning , unblocking , a ventilation of the soul ( ‘ airing your problems ’ ) , it was possible to achieve some kind of frank and freeflowing exchange . |
| 28 | Once Maxwell had introduced his displacement current it was possible to bring great coherence to the theory in the form of Maxwell 's equations , which clearly established the inter-relationship between all the electromagnetic field quantities . |
| 29 | He had heard that it was possible to get fresh tap water outside Asano Park . |
| 30 | Furthermore , while many of our questions about the relationship between mind and brain had to be held in abeyance , it was possible to make steady progress in answering certain fundamental questions about the organization of the brain . |