Example sentences of "it was a [adj -er] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a busier time for us because we had to feed the the the six of them w we put them into a big shed and they just slept there but we we gave them their dinner , they managed to make their own breakfast and their tea whatever They had bread and stuff like that but we had to make their dinner for them . |
| 2 | It was a greater task to be as he was in his given circumstances than among God-fearing people : in that fact itself there was an urge towards determination , and a hint of comfort . |
| 3 | He said little more to the Cabinet than that ‘ it was a worse situation in the House of Commons than he had ever known ’ , but he got Chamberlain ( a great man for doing the dirty jobs ) to see Hoare again and present hint with an impossible ultimatum . |
| 4 | It was a better night for Scotland in the B division of the men 's championship , in Basle , Switzerland , where Menzieshill scored a 4-3 victory over Slavia Prague . |
| 5 | Originally a mere footpath through fields , Charles II had decided it was a better route to Hampton Court than one to the North , through the village of Knightsbridge . |
| 6 | And it was a better class of oak all through . |
| 7 | ‘ Ah , there you — ’ one of them began , before he took in the fact that it was a stranger standing in front of him , rather than the third scientist . |
| 8 | Doubtless Beatrix Potter felt it was a neater finish to the story than a vasectomy . ’ |
| 9 | It was a quieter dawn in Leominster , with morris men marking the pagan first day of summer on a hill outside the town . |
| 10 | It was a further proof of Thomas Carter 's blissful innocence that he evidently had no idea that his swimming-pool , tennis court , fitted kitchen and high-tech appliances were as contemptible to the class whose values he so admired as the Parsons ' van Gogh prints and Dacron three-piece suite . |
| 11 | It was a further example of Peking 's present heavy-handed approach towards Hong Kong , and stemmed from the colonial government 's decision not to return swimmer Yang Yang to China last week , but to allow him to leave for asylum in the United States . |
| 12 | In the Queen 's carriage a day compartment adjoining the balcony contained couch , armchairs , table and writing desks ; next to it was a smaller compartment with a bedstead for Princess Mary . |
| 13 | Mr Ridley 's ‘ mindedness ’ to allow Foxley Wood depended on his view that it was a sounder way of ensuring Hampshire 's share of new housing in the South-east than the county 's own thinking , which assumed finding dozens of smaller sites . |
| 14 | Luke , even though his order of material is basically the same as Mark , tries to give the impression that it was a longer period of time ( see Luke 19:47 ; 20:1 ; 21:38 ; 22:1 , 7 ) . |