Example sentences of "it was an [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was very , very difficult for them , they had to come and they had to find the , the actual crash , and it was an appalling position to get to , erm , the efficiency was splendid . |
| 2 | The hospital involved has admitted it was an appalling mistake to make . |
| 3 | It was an inspired idea to offer the part to the ‘ eternal virgin' of the fifties and early sixties , but Day , nearing the end of her career , turned it down because , ‘ It offended my sense of values . ’ |
| 4 | It was an awe-inspiring sight to stand in the dusk outside the office , watching and listening to the boys going out on what we all knew would be a hazardous and dangerous mission , from which at least some of them would not return . |
| 5 | So many times she had told herself that , and each time she knew it was an impossible thing to do . |
| 6 | In cotton weaving rates in 1808 had fallen so low that weavers were reported to be working upwards of fifteen hours , even to twenty , but as an employer remarked it was an impossible situation to sustain and a man would not choose to work eighteen hours if he could live from the labour of twelve . |
| 7 | It is regretted that so many people were unable to obtain a ticket for this game and the committee fully appreciates their keen disappointment ; it was an impossible task to satisfy everyone so great was the demand . |
| 8 | It was an extraordinary sight to see a seventeenth-century church perched on steel-runners and pulled a few score metres from its original place . |
| 9 | It was an extraordinary sight to see Mr Evans shutting the shop in the middle of the day and toiling up the mountain like an ordinary person . |
| 10 | It was an extraordinary suggestion to come from a man who was normally so sensitive to Conservative Party opinion . |
| 11 | It was an extraordinary sensation to see the thrashing , churning water on one side while , inside the lagoon a yard or two away , the water was calm . |
| 12 | In purely military terms it was an amazing success reflecting great credit on Britain 's small but all-professional armed forces — which were such a contrast to the much bigger conscript forces I remembered from the 1950s . |
| 13 | It was an amazing discovery to find that monoplacophorans were still alive and well — living ones were dredged from the deep ocean in the early 1950's . |
| 14 | ‘ It was an amazing event organised by Bohunt School Prom Committee . |
| 15 | I 'd never known him believe in anything before , so it was an amazing novelty to find him literally staking his life on the principle of absolute patriarchal authority . |
| 16 | It was an agreeable house to live in , but the atmosphere was not conducive to study . |
| 17 | It was an encouraging performance showing we can come back when it counts ( unlike last year ) . |
| 18 | For the individual seeking an inner personal relationship with that God whose Incarnation enabled the socially redemptive love celebrated at the Mass , it was an interior process mediated by the priest and one formally encouraged by the Church after the Lateran Council of 1215 . |
| 19 | He says it was an awesome sight seeing the water come in the door . |
| 20 | As the 450th Anniversary of the Founding of the School was approaching , and as the School had in 1933 achieved Public School status , with the admission of the Headmaster into the Headmasters ' Conference , it was decided that it was an appropriate moment to extend the accommodation , with the building of two " temporary " classrooms and a new Art Room . |
| 21 | Now that he 's settled in and understanding the language a bit better , I thought it was an appropriate time to congratulate and welcome him to Carnoustie . |
| 22 | It was an industrial structure weighted heavily toward the use of semiskilled and unskilled labour . |
| 23 | This study highlighted a number of problems that family farmers faced when a member of the family came to work on the farm so perhaps it was an opportune time to look at this in more detail . |
| 24 | It was an opportune moment to return because the citizens of Aberdeen had embarked on a series of ambitious street improvements at the same time as the technology had developed to enable the exploitation of the plentiful local granite for building purposes . |
| 25 | For me , it was an astonishing double take . |
| 26 | It was an eight-foot rocket spraygunned in swirling blue and yellow and stamped with the sign of the atom . |
| 27 | The director , the crew and I stayed at Stromness on the Orkney mainland , in wartime too far to visit because of being at short notice for steam ; and it was an odd feeling crossing over to Hoy in the ferry , then motoring in a taxi down its eastern side to the once familiar anchorage of Gutter Sound . |
| 28 | All our friends reacted very favourably to our new daughter , though I am sure that some must have thought that it was an odd thing to do , to take another child when our own were nearly adult . |
| 29 | It was an odd thing to say ( it would n't matter if the film was brilliant — it would still probably provoke mirth among non-believers ) , but then it was also an odd thing to see in a film which was presumably trying to revamp the alien invasion genre for a new age , because it was such a throwback to the cinematic aliens of the last few years . |
| 30 | It was an odd thing to say and Jenna did n't challenge him . |