Example sentences of "it was [adj] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was nice to see Gary and baby George here , ’ said Livermore . |
| 2 | It was nice to see Stratford . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ It was nice to see Dwight come into a bit of form . |
| 4 | It was nice to see people happy , I thought . |
| 5 | It was nice to take games to North and Midlands and Glasgow and let people see touring sides and top level games . |
| 6 | I did their first demos with them , and took the opportunity of telling them a few facts of life , saying that while it was nice to play guitar , if at the end of the line they were all broke then they were going to be very unhappy musicians who had missed their chance to be big , and so they had better take care of certain realities and do it right away . |
| 7 | It was legal to seize cattle which were trespassing on fenced land , but such action could lead to an accusation of theft . |
| 8 | It was pleasant to see people returning to the old ways , he said . |
| 9 | It was n't what I wanted — even then I did n't feel it was right to get Ebert thrown out of the force for something he 'd said in a heated moment . |
| 10 | I debated with myself whether it was right to have lunch with an aristocrat but I was also very curious to see what lunch with him would be like and accepted the invitation . |
| 11 | The day before it was due to take effect , the tenant , having learnt of the order , made an application to set aside the order for possession and the judgment which had resulted in that order . |
| 12 | It was due to take place the last week in August and Mrs Bennett who , since the death of her husband , had lived with her married daughter , had promised to ‘ see it through ’ , as she put it ; but she had also made it quite clear that she had no desire to stay on permanently , as Celia had hoped . |
| 13 | After their previous performances against Arsenal and Sheffield Wednesday , it was surprising to see Coventry on the defensive early in the game as County went close through Williams , Wilson and Devlin . |
| 14 | In the ’ old ’ days it was traditional to fish bunches of maggots or large lumps of flake , both on large hooks . |
| 15 | With food being in short supply , it was illegal to throw bread into rivers . |
| 16 | There were , however , some times of the year when it was unreasonable to expect farmers to leave the farm work for training courses . |
| 17 | Democrats , whilst welcoming Bush 's retreat on the tax issue , argued that it was unreasonable to expect Democrats to associate themselves with spending cuts and tax increases , if they could not be certain that the President could hold his own party to such a deal . |
| 18 | One can become very parochial in concentration on simply British concerns , so it was invaluable to hear presentations and discuss different educational perspectives within the action research framework . |
| 19 | It was sad to see Rocky go but at least we got a player back , White seems a strong and determined player and has fitted in quite well already . |
| 20 | Since the route-finding task took place within a discourse framework , unlike the conventional referential communication task where the activity seems to be virtually disembedded from natural dialogue , it was appropriate to use methods of discourse analysis to throw further light on the communication process . |
| 21 | Chairman er in his remarks a bit earlier on Professor said that he did not think it was appropriate to give executive power to the director of education I wrote your words down at the time he did not think it appropriate to give executive power to the director of education and he said , despite Mr 's clarification you want to move a bit nearer if you 're going to be his minder Mr that in fact he did n't |
| 22 | However , it was encouraging to see Wayne Pollock get on the score sheet in his debut match with a goal off the back of his head as he stood watching a flock of swans fly overhead . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's my own fault — there were times when there was no real leadership in the county and it was easy to let things slip . ’ |
| 24 | If ready cash was not available , it was easy to borrow money because interest rates were low and banks eager to lend to potential investors . |
| 25 | With his vowels short as his hair , it was easy to mistake Wellington for an Afrikaner . |
| 26 | Woodcuts can be mounted with type , because what is to print black stands up from the surface ; so it was easy to put pictures on the same page as descriptions , and herbals and bestiaries were liberally illustrated . |
| 27 | It was easy to spot others like her . |
| 28 | It was easy to imagine depression as a condition in which the stores of certain amines became exhausted : then the monoamine oxidase inhibitors would prevent destruction of noradrenaline and conserve what was available , while the tricyclics prevented losses from the stores . |
| 29 | It was easy to burn Haddington , a substantial town south of Edinburgh ( and birthplace of John Knox ) ; at Dunbar , the inhabitants were trapped inside the town and burned with it . |
| 30 | It was easy to make fun of , and it was no wonder that Conservative Central Office had a field day , distributing a compilation of green policy statements , including the unrealistic ones on replacing the EC with a ‘ loose federation of ecological countries ’ and disengaging Britain from the international money market . |