Example sentences of "it was [adj] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was nice except the courgettes . |
| 2 | It was nice except the courgettes . |
| 3 | It was black under the trees and a white mist of dislodged snow hung close to the ground . |
| 4 | He supposed it was due to the railways ' air of resentful obsolescence , combined with their persistent insights into what was so often ignored : abandoned pastures , neglected buildings , all that was overgrown and outmoded , all that was best forgotten . |
| 5 | Although the CNAA was not itself formally involved in this planning , it was involved in the consultations , and at various points it linked in with the continuing policy developments . |
| 6 | As noted by Anthony Diamond Q.C. , if the cargo owner was a party to the bill of lading it was subject to the disclaimers whether it sued in contract or tort . |
| 7 | He said that he thought it wrong to encourage a military spirit , and that it was contrary to the ideals of disarmament . |
| 8 | Held , dismissing the appeals , that failure to observe the proper procedures for service was not necessarily fatal to the lawfulness of a committal order ; that the court , in exercising its discretion under section 13(3) of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 , had to take into account the interests not only of the contemnor but also of those affected by the contempt and the need to maintain its authority , and that where an irregularity caused the contemnor no injustice the committal order should not be set aside ; that since , in the first appeal , there was no requirement for personal service of a committal order so that the only irregularity was that the court , rather than the local authority had served a copy of the order on the contemnor 's solicitors , the contemnor had suffered no injustice and the order would stand ; and that , in the second appeal , since the husband was fully aware of the findings of contempt and had not sought to challenge them or the sentence imposed , he had suffered no injustice and it was appropriate in the circumstances to affirm the order despite the irregularities which had occurred ( post , pp. 822B–C , F — 823B , 823C–E , 824B–D , F , 825C–D , 826D–F ) . |
| 9 | Such a moral order was legitimate since it was consonant with the dictates of Providence or , in different intellectual terms , expressive of the natural order progressively opening to the minds of Enlightenment intellectuals through scientific investigation and freedom of thought . |
| 10 | Here again , it was easy for the grandchildren to call in frequently : the two houses were both in the same ‘ raw — this ‘ raw ’ was a row of houses . |
| 11 | It was easy for the Jews to comply with this custom because Hecataeus of Abdera had produced a little model of what was expected of them . |
| 12 | Koresh zeroed in on this and tried to bring it closer to where we are to make it more real so it was uppermost in the minds of all his followers . |
| 13 | Economically the traditional sector of agriculture was a negative force : it was immune to the fluctuations of the great markets or , if not , it resisted their impact as best it could . |
| 14 | I always felt that it was typical of the Quakers ' practical Christianity to allow their building to be so used . |
| 15 | It was typical of the places she had been in during her Psychopomp days . |
| 16 | Gall bladder emptying in response to graded CCK8 stimulation was impaired in five of 11 patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy , whereas it was normal in the patients without cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy ( p<0.01 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ We scored some quality goals and it was good for the fans whose support so far this season has been fantastic . ’ |
| 18 | It could , for example , no longer be claimed that it was unrepresentative of the men . |
| 19 | It was creditable in the circumstances , but less than Paul had hoped . |
| 20 | Between close kin it was possible for the exchanges to be one-way over a longer term , one person a net ‘ giver ’ at a particular point in time because of a reasonable confidence that he or she could be a net ‘ receiver ’ at a later stage . |
| 21 | It was possible for the authorities to see him , at this level , as a figure of ‘ law and order ’ without a single criminal accusation that could be sustained against him . |
| 22 | And this is why , in spite of the years of ostracism , it was possible for the Springboks to lose by only three points to the All Blacks and 23 points to the Wallabies . |
| 23 | It seems that neither temple nor town was fortified , so it was possible for the temples to grow outwards from the nucleus of the Central Court virtually without restraint . |
| 24 | It was cool under the trees , and she could hear birds singing . |
| 25 | But it was essential for the beneficiaries to insist that such a policy should not be stultified by plunder , wanton destruction , reckless deployment of military force and general contempt for the welfare of the provincials . |
| 26 | They started the fireworks when there was still rather too much light in the sky , although it was dark under the trees over in the dell . |
| 27 | And when he passed me I did not like to look at his face because it was dark like the shadows of the hill , and when he reached the door he laughed and I did not like to hear him laugh , and when he reached the yard he stopped because Beuno was there and he said to him , ‘ She 'll be all right now . |
| 28 | We tested this out by taking it around the office and the people in the office thought it was a bit boring we er thought it was great for the youngsters who probably like it so er erm and the merchandise we 've actually , we 've made up certain things , T-shirts and , and , and wacky items that again er relate to , to young people so that they get into the , the , the theme of the thing and the , the whole year carries forward on a , on a certain colour theme and , and , and so on , so er we 've done our best as sailing coaches not only learning to be marketeers again the money , where 's the money come from ? |
| 29 | If children were not helpful ( when their mothers thought helpfulness was appropriate ) it was rare for the mothers to overlook their negligence . |
| 30 | Given the predominance of feudal relations in Russia it was impossible for the men of the 1860s and 70s to see that capitalism was already spreading and inevitably must do so . |