Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] to have a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was rather nice to have a woman crying over him .
2 Mr Parrish said it was most unusual to have a planning inquiry with several options but the NGC said it was quite normal to make such planning applications .
3 There was had to be a discreet list circulated naming those ( mainly ) Soviet Bloc officials in London with whom it was highly inadvisable to have a solo drink or dinner .
4 Yes , it was extremely useful to have a car , whatever people said about traffic and pollution and expense … yes …
5 His damn wife said it was not natural to have a room without a window .
6 No doubt there was room for argument as to whether in 1923 it was still possible to have a peer as Conservative Prime Minister .
7 Simultaneously , Jack Wood , soon to be returned unopposed in the forthcoming municipal election , told the West Ham Trades Council that ‘ he was more delighted to have a place on ( the ) united Labour Party platform than to have a seat on the council ’ ( ibid ) .
8 ‘ Right from the beginning I 'd felt it was more important to have a woman with me than my partner .
9 We we had a cost of living bonus when it was practically unknown to have a cost of liv , which we 'd had er er since er immediately after the First World War , nineteen nineteen time .
10 It was n't possible to have a conversation unless her earphones were connected , but this was the least of her worries at the moment .
11 Angry at the injustice of it all , Katherine was yet relieved to have an excuse to stay out of her mother 's way .
12 It was therefore essential to have a co-organizer , someone who would keep a cool head .
13 GCE O and A levels were devised when a large proportion of children left school after the fifth year , and when it was therefore sensible to have a block of examinations taken in that year , to operate partly as a school-leaving certification , partly as a screen , to select those who would stay on .
14 Speculation that global climate change could result was largely discounted , since the smoke cloud was too low to have an impact on stratospheric climate circulation .
15 I told her I wanted something I could look at on days when it was too hot to have a fire . ’
16 Did you think perhaps I was too old to have a grandmother still alive ? ’
17 My period was a week late but I was too scared to have a test .
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