Example sentences of "[vb past] it [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She laughed at the very thought of it because she doubted it was possible because her conception of God was too small . |
| 2 | There was nothing wrong with it except that she doubted it was true and was certain Holly was showing it to Maureen for approval . |
| 3 | ‘ His best attempt at negotiating the distance between admiration of the poetry and dislike for the individual who created it is this metaphor , in his introduction : ‘ When he found his authentic voice in the late 1940s , the beautiful flowers of his poetry were already growing on long stalks out of pretty dismal ground ’ — a botanical conceit designed to leave Larkin soiled , but the poetry ready for picking . |
| 4 | The man who designed it is confident they 've got it right . |
| 5 | However , as the contractor is free to time the work within the contract period it wold be illogical for the contractor to be able to claim the cost and time effects of an influence which might have caused further delay but did not in fact do so ; and in the situation described it is likely that the first cause rules . |
| 6 | Yet the contrast that presented itself to me as Edward Thomas described it was dramatic : down in the valley less than half a mile away was a modern colliery with all the latest gadgetry of modern technology , while the hill farmers ( at least some of them ) were still in the Middle Ages — even earlier , as far as their material culture was concerned . |
| 7 | Canada and Australia maintained it was unwise to observe elections only in south Korea ; France and Syria abstained . |
| 8 | Her dark violet-blue eyes looked tired to death , and from the way she moved it was clear that her back and her ankles ached badly . |
| 9 | For others of the six original problems mentioned it is possible to create stages to effect change in exactly the same way . |
| 10 | No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week . |
| 11 | You will understand that because of the big financial interests involved it 's important that rumours should n't start flying about , but I 'd be grateful for your views . " |
| 12 | Having looked at assessment and verification and the people involved it is appropriate to consider whether or not a process of approval ( sometimes called ‘ validation ’ ) should be developed and applied to organisations wishing to offer particular types of provision . |
| 13 | With all these people formally involved it is easy for one group to lose touch or fall behind with information from other groups , and in some cases numbers become unwieldy and the investigators start tripping over each other and duplicating effort . |
| 14 | Scouse was seated in his armchair reading a paperback — a Western — oblivious to the flies and mosquitoes , and as I approached it was obvious he was not bothered in any way about the smell . |
| 15 | With regard to safety , if a product is misused or overheated it is better if unpleasant or acrid fumes are given off rather than sweet smelling , pleasant fumes that may be toxic |
| 16 | ‘ Sack ? ’ he enquired , as if the word in the context she used it was unknown to him . |
| 17 | They were just two points in front after a surprise defeat for Daz Sumner when suddenly the team found it 's real fighting spirit . |
| 18 | I found it was possible with Paradise to talk about individual and personal responsibility , something which if set in a contemporary context would have had a preachy feel about it . ’ |
| 19 | He was tall and pale and when Nicholson shook his hand he found it was icy cold . |
| 20 | I found it was stale so I replaced it and was about to make him a corned beef sandwich when Dad asked , ‘ Where 's Pete ? ’ |
| 21 | Not for the first time Salisbury found it was easy to attract a large audience for a free show . |
| 22 | So , as far as I can work it out , they found it was cool to go round to Wally 's and hang out , particularly as the school was only just round the corner from his place So they 'd sit there doing very little and getting bored . |
| 23 | Tom touched his cheek and found it was cold . |
| 24 | If you made a Day of the Dead cake at home you always hid a coin in it , and the person who found it was supposed to live for ever . |
| 25 | When we got up to the place , we found it was uninhabited . |
| 26 | I had to get up because when I walked I found it was easier . |
| 27 | Then he looked it up and found it was some priceless Tsarist cross he 'd turned down . |
| 28 | But when you got inside you found it was ugly , crude , bourgeois . |
| 29 | Paul Reas found it was important to ‘ keep it simple ’ at first , and had to keep reminding himself that while today 's young people are often very machine friendly , they are not the graduate students he normally teaches . |
| 30 | By the time he proposed it was impossible . |