Example sentences of "it was [adj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Downing Street insisted it was confident the two leaders will achieve a rapport and put that at the top of its agenda . |
| 2 | The Museums Commission said it was confident the newly-formed Department of Heritage would support the needs of smaller galleries and ensure that collections of national importance , like that at the Pitt Rivers Museum , are preserved for the public . |
| 3 | The trio of vessels ( with a combined weight less than one of today 's jumbo jets ) passed the tip of a small island where it was dear the two oceans ' waters met — the point is now named Crosstides — and through the Paso Tortuosa . |
| 4 | I just felt pressured , it was all the bloody time , " You ca n't love me if you wo n't do it , everybody is doing it . " " |
| 5 | It was all the greatest nonsense but the scare ran for a couple of days . |
| 6 | It was all the burning that was going on . |
| 7 | It was all the usual Maranello balderdash and came down , basically , to the inflated notions Ferrari had of his own importance . |
| 8 | Do n't pretend it was all the other driver 's fault , even if they did crash into the back of you , or were driving recklessly . |
| 9 | Yeah , it was all the new walls as well . |
| 10 | Fraser and Ramsay had agreed that , since it was all the latter 's idea and the former was a man of action rather than words , Ramsay should do most of the talking . |
| 11 | So it was all the straitlaced American 's fault . |
| 12 | ‘ I remember that when I first got to Vogue , it was all the old school . |
| 13 | Whether it was running the Woman 's Institute or assembling and distributing gas masks , it was all the same to them . |
| 14 | It was all the same , the Big Empty . |
| 15 | Wild or tame , mad or sane , it was all the same to them . |
| 16 | Whether Southern drawl or Mid-West twang , it was all the same to me . |
| 17 | After we had mounted the third hill , we found the country one continued village , tho' mountainous every way , as before ; hardly a house standing out of a speaking distance from another , and … we could see that almost at every house there was a tenter , and almost on every tenter a piece of cloth , or kersie , or shalloon , for they are three articles of that country 's labour ; from which the sun glancing , and , as I may say , shining ( the white reflecting its rays ) to us , I thought it was the most agreeable sight that I ever saw , for the hills , as I say , rising and falling so thick , and the valleys opening sometimes one way , sometimes another , so that sometimes we could see two or three miles this way , sometimes as far another ; sometimes like the streets near St Giles 's , called the Seven Dials ; we could see through the glades almost every way round us , yet look which way we would , high to the tops , and low to the bottoms , it was all the same ; innumerable houses and tenters , and a white piece upon every tenter . |
| 18 | It was all the same as it ever was . |
| 19 | It was all the same nurses and midwives . |
| 20 | ‘ It was all the same and Emily watched me as I poured each cup . |
| 21 | It was all the same if he did . |
| 22 | Seb grimaced , it was all the same to him . |
| 23 | Stella realises that although her sister 's husband 's death was extremely tragic it was all the same a ‘ pretty long time ago ’ . |
| 24 | And there 's me thought it was all the same ! |
| 25 | It was all the wrong way round , I thought : it was more usual to know the crime and seek the criminal , than to know the criminal and seek his crime . |
| 26 | Experts said it was possible the first three dogs had been doped to go faster , while the fourth and fifth had been slowed down . |
| 27 | It was far the best route into London from the South . |
| 28 | It was early the next day that she was ushered into the offices of Croydon and Cooper . |
| 29 | It was eight the following morning when she awakened , prompted by the rays of the morning sun playing on her eyelids . |
| 30 | It was obvious the aging side had peaked the previous season ; a major overhaul was needed , either at playing staff or managerial level . |