Example sentences of "it was [adj] [noun] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er it were in paper about this er this woman she 'd gone to the hospital and she must have been there longer than she thought , and so she 'd got her car clamped and it was thirty pound to have it off but |
| 2 | It was one thing to have turned his own country into an ‘ underdeveloping ’ society , but to seek out the company of the other basket-cases of the world economy was to add gratuitous insult to already grave injury in the minds of most Romanians . |
| 3 | It was one thing to have mastered cooking on two electric rings when the boulangerie , charcuterie and épicerie were five minutes distant , quite another to keep a range alight , bake bread and manage slow-cooking food . |
| 4 | To the large British contingent of Formula One teams , staff , drivers and reporters , it was good news to have a Briton like Mosley in power . |
| 5 | It was sheer bliss to have the cumbersome weight removed from her back , and she stretched . |
| 6 | A panel of medical and scientific experts based them on how likely it was that cancer had been caused by the victim 's working conditions . |
| 7 | He reiterated , with immense care and deliberation , why it was that Sien had come to mean so much to him . |
| 8 | And thus it was that glamour had arrived for our heroine . |
| 9 | So he ought , thought Sally-Anne , and so he is , and , desperate to change the conversation , to steer it away from dangerous ground , she said , as brightly as she could , through numb lips , ‘ Sha n't we miss the last horse bus home if we do n't leave soon ? ’ thinking how fortunate it was that Stair had not told Dr Neil the other heiress 's identity — Sally-Anne Tunstall might have been a dead give-away ; she really ought to have changed her Christian name . |
| 10 | ‘ It was obvious Heather had been unwell , but she seemed almost completely better . |
| 11 | And it was obvious Frontenac had not . |
| 12 | For though it was true Maurice had brought it upon himself , he had also brought it upon her . |
| 13 | There was nothing so cosily malicious , once it was mutually accepted , as dead love , and besides it was plain Dotty had a thing going with Fairchild . |
| 14 | The judge said it was clear police had drawn the wrong conclusions . |
| 15 | Before it was light Chola had lit a fire , and was frying puris and boiling a small pan of rice for Sigarup to eat before he left . |