Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] it was [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the right-side of Xenly it was fashionable to be fat , the fatter you were the higher you stood in society . |
| 2 | Industrial tribunals as we heard yesterday from Ian have decided they were wrongly dismissed and that indicates the standard of the union locally but poses the question of why it was impossible for our officials , from the General Secretary downwards , to effect any influence whatsoever on the attitude of Liverpool City Council . |
| 3 | For once it was Veronique in front , on Henderson Flarepath , a horse Michael lent her two years ago , after selling her top horses , Cogshall Spot On and Jingo , to Ian Fox . |
| 4 | Unlike yesterday it was untidy , with children 's clothes littering the chairs , a doll which must belong to Weenie on the floor and unwashed dishes in the sink . |
| 5 | Last week I had to put my night dress into so it was all white |
| 6 | The new rules were bound to have an adverse effect on the general public 's attitude to the Society and before long it was obvious that the papingo shoot was losing its popularity with ordinary people , even as a spectacle . |
| 7 | Until yesterday it was all talk . |
| 8 | It then sketches in how it was that ‘ race ’ came to be constructed as a significant educational issue at all . |
| 9 | From there it was possible to get into the Cathedral only through a large , very heavy door directly opposite the one they had just come through . |
| 10 | From then it was steady progression of promotion through Perth and Kinross , Selkirk , Borders , and Grampian until he was appointed Highland 's senior depute in 1985 . |
| 11 | Until then it was difficult to decide the status of these invisible materials . |
| 12 | Dot spooned up the bottom from where it was cool and milky . |
| 13 | Mrs Aboud led me to the balcony from where it was evident that many of the surrounding buildings — like those elsewhere in the Arab quarter — had been devastated , their roofs smashed in and their windows punched out of their frames . |
| 14 | It was not spoken of but drawn upon when it was needful . |
| 15 | And in death , the thing had shrunk to the size that Cardiff remembered from when it was first discovered in the wrecked car . |
| 16 | Until recently it was one of the greatest of all killer diseases . |
| 17 | Until recently it was Chinese Americans who were the most feared of poker immigrants — above all Johnny Chan , back-to-back world champ in 1988-'89 , known as the ‘ Oriental Express ’ because he rakes in so many pots so fast . |
| 18 | Until recently it was difficult to buy authentic Farmhouse Lancashire anywhere but in the local area . |
| 19 | In the next chapter we consider events which are unexpected and which shock the couple into making a response ; for example , the discovery of an affair can destabilize a relationship to the point of breakdown , although more frequently it triggers a re-evaluation of the partnership and some heart-searching as to why it was necessary to draw attention to problems in the marriage in this way . |
| 20 | When they arrived at her close he took her inside , along past the stairs to where it was dark and they could n't be seen by the rest of the close . |
| 21 | Mrs Blakey would immediately tell her husband and Mr Blakey would immediately go to wherever it was this boy lived and warn him that if he did n't stop the police would be informed . |
| 22 | He used to write to me about how it was best for Stephen if he got adopted , 'cause I did n't know what I was going to do with me life , I was n't settled and I 'd probably end up back in prison . |
| 23 | It is important for the Government to pursue other involved parties — including the company itself , but also the finan cial advisers who put savers into the Gibraltar fund without inquiring too much about how it was able to offer such high rates of interest , not to mention the auditors who looked at the books . |
| 24 | The thing had died , and for its death they could also find no reason … no more than they could find a reason for how it was able to live in the first place . |
| 25 | Moreover , its observed non-hydrostatic mass distribution can not readily be understood as a hydrostatic state ‘ frozen ’ from an earlier environment , such as when it was closer to the Earth . |
| 26 | She knew at once it was serious because her father was still up . |
| 27 | Well at least it was nice that they were looking out and |
| 28 | The flat felt colder than it was outside , but at least it was dry . |
| 29 | At least it was warm and dry . |
| 30 | The thunder still battered overhead , and she could hear the splash and gurgle of water running in the courtyard , but here at least it was possible to believe in quiet , to think it might be possible to speak and to be spoken to . |