Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if it were not enough to battle the elements and their colleagues ( the crew includes a freaked-out Naval officer with a nuclear warhead and an itchy finger ) , Harris and Mastroantonio are a husband and wife with marital troubles . |
| 2 | If it were more forcefully to challenge the ageism that underlies the social structure , would it be in danger of provoking a backlash from those of its supporters who do not wish to be reminded that all is not well , despite their charity ? |
| 3 | It was nice not to have to buy food . |
| 4 | It was thus in these early years and it was nearly always to remain so . |
| 5 | It was little enough to go on , but it was at least a beginning . |
| 6 | And after all Elizabeth had done for her , heaven only knew it was little enough to ask in return . |
| 7 | It was little enough to expect . |
| 8 | It was n't just to please her companions , but because she was beginning to have doubts about her original opinion . |
| 9 | Because i i they though it was in competition with other varieties around and it something t It was n't necessarily to do with the fact that erm they though it was less it held less prestige in the community . |
| 10 | Well , it was n't about to happen again ! |
| 11 | Although Jeff making me laugh at myself was the beginning of the end of my depression , it was n't enough to persuade me to stay . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , it was n't enough to stop her thinking completely . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ After I lost my keys a few weeks ago a locksmith replaced the tumblers but it was n't enough to stop the door being opened . |
| 14 | ‘ It was n't enough to put us back in the World Cup contention . |
| 15 | But it was n't enough to save them either . |
| 16 | Marcus Browning was the hit man … that 's three goals in three games for him … but it was n't enough to save United from a 2-1 deafeat … |
| 17 | as if it was n't enough to see discredited Lo Life Boostin' Kev trying to make a record about the posse , Superia nearly went ballistic when he saw Harlem R&B/rap group Zhigge shouting ‘ Lo Life in tha house ! ’ on stage . |
| 18 | as if it was n't enough to neglect your husband and children , you get yourself involved in vulgar brawls . |
| 19 | It was n't enough to pay the rent , never mind to live on . |
| 20 | ‘ as if it was n't enough to start a major race riot , you kill a blasted policeman . ’ |
| 21 | MATTHEW Syed , the 22-year-old Oxford University student , won both his table tennis games for England against France at Brentwood but it was n't enough to prevent France from winning 3–2 . |
| 22 | The time I was looking for a house , he says it was n't enough to get into Sandy Row . |
| 23 | ‘ Whatever you and Peter were up to last night , ’ he went on savagely , ‘ it was n't enough to satisfy you . |
| 24 | It was n't only to toil in the cotton fields that negros were stolen from Africa . |
| 25 | When Bilqis , Queen of Sheba , travelled from her domain in southern Arabia to visit King Solomon , it was not just to pay a social call . |
| 26 | Stand-in keeper Trevor Matthewson immediately produced a penalty save from Jimmy Quinn , but it was not enough to save the Blues . |
| 27 | But it was not enough to save the company 's jobs . |
| 28 | GARY Lineker scored his first goal today since being sidelined from the Japan League for three months with a broken foot but it was not enough to save Nagoya Grampus Eight from defeat in the opening match of the Nabisco Cup . |
| 29 | It was not enough to patch up existing gaps in the criminal law , the commission said . |
| 30 | Charlie Vane , Bob Taylor and John Page had a single win apiece , but it was not enough to stop Frimley who scored through Robert Brittain ( 3 ) , Dick Culver ( 2 ) and Peter Glass to take the cup 6–3 . |