Example sentences of "it was [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if someone had asserted that it was inconceivable that a mammal should lay an egg and then a duck-billed platypus had turned up . |
| 2 | It was unsuccessful and a disaffected Scottish gentleman , Sir John Barclay , had to make his escape to the continent . |
| 3 | It was offensive that a party should be so unprincipled as first to defeat the Government on a matter of fundamental constitutional importance ; and , having done so , should then take office on condition that it passed the measure . |
| 4 | It was predictable but a little sad that you did n't get any of this sense of detail at Strains of War . |
| 5 | But it had been only to say some things about her son which it was better that a boy of eleven should n't catch ( 8 ) . |
| 6 | A similar processing difficulty is caused by relative and comparative clauses in which the introductory word ( who , which , than , etc ) has an embedded syntactic function ; for example in ( 8 ) : " some things about her son [ which it was better that a boy of eleven should n't catch ] " . |
| 7 | It was better than a cockfight , and even better than the Battle . |
| 8 | It was better than a pantomime , but with one big difference . |
| 9 | It 's annoying and yet it was better than a p |
| 10 | In retrospect , it was ironic that a year after Syria was partitioned , another small ethnic group took the opposite path to protect its identity . |
| 11 | In light of this appeal it was ironic that a superpower crisis developed from subsequent Soviet efforts to establish a missile base in Cuba . |
| 12 | Well , it had n't changed much , except that it was bigger and a lot of schoolboys were apparently prancing round the sacred portals of Pierremont House . |
| 13 | It was symbolic that a group of prominent and progressively minded intellectuals tried , in 1902–03 , to open a dialogue with the hierarchy of the Orthodox Church . |
| 14 | ‘ It was sad and a joke and it just backfired , ’ she said . |
| 15 | It was tiny but a reminder that there are still poisonous snakes in the region — a fact which is all too easy to forget . |
| 16 | It was apparent that a genius had been born . |
| 17 | In other cases it was apparent that a new pedestrian population was being tapped as turnover rose markedly on shop opening . |
| 18 | It was blacker than a coal heaver 's codpiece in a Blitz blackout . |
| 19 | It was worse than a balls-up . |
| 20 | It was worse than a mountain — it was a maze ; and how intricate its twists I soon discovered . |
| 21 | It was strange that a sexual union which left nothing to be desired should so clarify the state of her mind . |
| 22 | It was strange that a man who had known so much sorrow could radiate so much life . |
| 23 | It was strange that a man of considerable intellect could give so much attention and attribute such importance to a press which was wholly influenced at all times by political considerations . |
| 24 | It was uncertain whether a ballot in 1984 would obtain the needed support , and so Scargill developed an alternative strategy to achieve a national strike without calling one . |
| 25 | Nobody pretended that it was other than a one-way process . |
| 26 | She stared at it now , hardly able to believe that it was two and a half years since it had been taken . |
| 27 | It was two and a half years since I had seen them and it gave me a lot of hope just to know that they were still in good shape , although they both looked much older . |
| 28 | It was two and a half years since she 'd seen her godchildren , Emma and Sophie , who 'd last been in England with their parents on a Christmas visit , staying with Sir David and Lady Wyndham . |
| 29 | but I , I disagree with them lending money to the extent , the old way was better when it was two and a half times the salary , your salary |
| 30 | It was one and a half hours later before they reached him , caught up in all the plants , still shouting ‘ What have I done ? |