Example sentences of "it was [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was eventually surgically removed although at this stage Donal 's mother was not even aware of the situation . |
| 2 | It was thoroughly well laid out , with fact-sheets for the kids — including free pencils — exhibits dating from the earliest times to the present day and the entrance was through a mock graphite mine . |
| 3 | It was thus well manured and amply repaid any work spent on it . |
| 4 | But it was soon partly cancelled by the victory of the English-backed Montfortists at the battle of Auray , in southern Brittany , on 29 September 1364 , at which Charles de Blois was killed and du Guesclin , not for the last time , was taken prisoner . |
| 5 | Then it was northwards again heading across the more open stretches of sea towards Colgrave Sound , the rather dark and forbidding cliffs of Fetlar on the starboard bow with the low lying Out Skerries islands well out to the east . |
| 6 | But probably a guard had spotted it and it was right now sitting in some staff-room in Queen Street station , or Gallanach . |
| 7 | It was rather strangely put , he thought . |
| 8 | So , in Madras , he demonstrated an alternative approach and it was rather like watching Norman Tebbit become Mahatma Ghandi . |
| 9 | It was rather like going down into a horrid , dark , earthy hole , where dull crimson firs burned and where grinning creatures might be peering at you from the shadows . |
| 10 | In the end it was rather like working for two pop stars . |
| 11 | It was rather like working out the details of one of her plots : circumstances capable of more than one interpretation ; actions which might or might not be innocent ; individuals who might or might not have a genuine motive , the means and opportunity to commit the crime . |
| 12 | Bridget Hill maintains that wife-beating was common through all levels of society , though it was rather better concealed among the affluent [ Hill , 199–200 ] . |
| 13 | It was clearly bitterly divided and strongly polarised in its conflicting views , mostly revolving around the rights that would follow allowing the ladies to serve on the Main Committee . |
| 14 | Its high status is reflected in the fact that though useless for industry it was nevertheless extensively traded both in Europe and the Far East . |
| 15 | I might not have known exactly what rationalism was but it was nevertheless deeply engrained in my picture of the world . |
| 16 | However the modish concept of " proto-industrialisation " ( above pp. 4 – 5 ) has led to a dominant image of women 's work as having been hidden because in rural cottage manufacturing it , as with the work of children , was subsumed in a family unit of production in which it was neither separately waged nor described . |
| 17 | It was thus in these early years and it was nearly always to remain so . |
| 18 | It was nearly always organised by a government , although some torturers acted on their own initiatives . |
| 19 | It was little enough to go on , but it was at least a beginning . |
| 20 | And after all Elizabeth had done for her , heaven only knew it was little enough to ask in return . |
| 21 | It was little enough to expect . |
| 22 | It was evidently widely felt that its representatives were capable of more or less any form of major misdemeanour . |
| 23 | It was generally well received by critics , but there were a few dissenting voices . |
| 24 | In the same case , at 758C , Lord Salmon stated that it was generally well established that professionals owed their clients a duty to exercise reasonable skill and care . |
| 25 | Sometimes we would go to the hills and find wild fruits and we began to grow a few things , like cucumbers and tomatoes , but it was generally hard going . |
| 26 | It was anyway particularly envisaged for heavy bombers ‘ suitable for super-loading planes for special duties , for example the protection of straights , by launching planes carrying heavy air torpedoes from a short distance inland ’ . |
| 27 | It was n't badly paid , and she could be at home when the children came back from school , and get their tea . |
| 28 | It was n't straight acting that had captured her imagination , but rather the stage itself . |
| 29 | It was n't exactly like he had to have an appointment , but it was that he did n't fit into the structure . |
| 30 | It was n't exactly love , but it was close enough to love not to matter . |