Example sentences of "it had been a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been a particularly bad day at school . |
| 2 | Mr Owen-Jones said it had been a particularly difficult year in Britain where sales had fallen 12 p.c. compared with a worldwide increase of 10 p.c . |
| 3 | We all agreed that it had been a most leisurely and pleasant day out . |
| 4 | It had been a most beautiful place , he said , before the flood . |
| 5 | Later that evening when they were seated comfortably in the bar Mary brought up the subject of the eerie feeling in the cutting ; they agreed it had been a most disturbing experience and that there must be some explanation . |
| 6 | It had been a bitterly cold day , and the gravel underfoot was frozen into tight lumps . |
| 7 | There were individual factory loyalties and there were divisional loyalties and it had been a pretty cosy relationship between the organisation and the Ministry of Defence . |
| 8 | The children had no complaints about the refreshments , and when it was time to leave , they decided that it had been a pretty good party . |
| 9 | So far , it had been a rather wearing day , fraught with strange emotions , and it was n't over yet . |
| 10 | To all appearances , it had been a completely normal day . |
| 11 | One way and another it had been a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon . |
| 12 | Yes Geraldine certainly implied that it had been a jolly hard time . |
| 13 | It had been a really good experience for both Rachel , aged fifteen with an eleven-month-old baby , and Carol , aged fourteen and five months pregnant . |
| 14 | Ronni would n't have minded if it had been a less gracious compliment . |
| 15 | It had been a fairly commonplace murder , a henpecked husband at the end of his tether who had taken a hatchet to his virago of a wife . |
| 16 | It had been a fairly calm conversation . |
| 17 | It had been a perfectly bloody conference . |
| 18 | A judge told James Storrie , 23 , of Ardmaleish Road , Castlemilk , Glasgow , that it had been a quite extraordinary and vicious episode . |
| 19 | It had been a very hot day and this was the first heat-stroke casualty . |
| 20 | Anyway , it had been a very long time ago , goodness gracious , it had been at least six years . |
| 21 | It had been a very long night to pass on a tiny piece of sandwich . |
| 22 | Although it had been a very warm day , the evening had a slight feeling of autumn : it was particularly beautiful , with the sun turning the leaves of the trees a marvellous golden colour . |
| 23 | It had been a very strange week ! |
| 24 | It had been a very cruel murder . |
| 25 | It had been a very unhappy time for him , especially since he knew that his advancing years prevented him from getting a job as a carman . |
| 26 | So far , it had been a very dull , even grey , conference . |
| 27 | As he rode away , Seb thought it had been a very small lie , yet it had brought an expression of joy to Melody 's face that he would never forget . |
| 28 | It had been a very typical contract that Mark Letterworth had contrived in outline for the sale of the turbine engines to a Moscow factory . |
| 29 | But it had been a very close-run thing . |
| 30 | It had been a very cold but bright morning , without a breath of wind . |