Example sentences of "it was [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let it not be spoke by of the system that during the period of as for exercise it was nice cold weather a public warning had been and so far this uses the same apartment every evening at prayer time and there selfish mind work a general publication for boys contain a special clause by authority of the board in which they repeatedly made good , virtuous , protected , obedient as regarded to a the powers of wickedness as an article direct from |
| 2 | But it was fellow New Zealander Tea Ropati who led Saints to victory . |
| 3 | Well , it was Russian New Year 's Eve — 14 January . |
| 4 | It was powerful pragmatic argument . |
| 5 | It was Grand National time and he could n't think of anything but Top Spin Lob . ’ |
| 6 | In 1941 , it was poor agricultural land next to the small market town of Bicester ; a year later , 24,000 soldiers were installed in an ordnance depot . |
| 7 | Nigel had reasoned that , as most washing originated where one divested oneself of one 's dirty clothes and bed linen , i.e. the top floor , it was poor time-and-motion study to have the cleaning apparatus on the ground floor . |
| 8 | It was simple bad luck . |
| 9 | It was typical male selfishness and cruelty . |
| 10 | It was typical poor foursomes golf . |
| 11 | Partly it was normal Arab volatility , their ability to move from elation to depression , rage to calm , in the space of a few bewildering seconds . |
| 12 | It was normal diplomatic protocol to exchange presents when delegations met , and Umanskii detects a distinct difference between these gifts and those which yasak-paying tribes gave originally voluntarily , but later on under coercion . |
| 13 | It was normal social behaviour . |
| 14 | It was fluent educated English and the accent had only a trace of French as well as a trace of English nanny . |
| 15 | It was majjal bil-Patata fil-Forn , a classic Maltese dish , exquisitely cooked by your mother 's loyal housekeeper Kathleen . ’ |
| 16 | It was n't brilliant oratory , no flowers of rhetoric à la Curzon , or subtle " nuances " à la Balfour , but it was good hard sound commonsense and the way he showed up the government was admirable . |
| 17 | It was good wholesome fare : rye bread and cheese , apples and meat . |
| 18 | Dioxin was indeed found at one Rhone-Poulenc dump in France , its manager nervously explaining that it was good French dioxin , and not a nasty Italian import . |
| 19 | Of all the hard-hit member states , it was good old Blighty that had the most to shout about , not least because here was a good old-fashioned , honest-to-goodness motor show surprise . |
| 20 | It was 30th December , I did catch a bus before I got to Charing Cross Station , it was good old No. 30 , for Fulham . |
| 21 | It was good public relations : but the Dutch were planning their counter-attack . |
| 22 | Captain Bowen said it was possible commercial aircraft did not pick up a signal from the emergency beacon , and the radio messages could have been confused with another vessel . |
| 23 | to realize that it was alienating other sectors of society when the C C P could least afford to . |
| 24 | No , it was dark haired boy . |
| 25 | It was sheer bloody hell listening to all those fatuous nincompoops saying what a great guy you are . |
| 26 | It was n't training , it was sheer genetic fluke . |
| 27 | Mr Murdoch recalled : ‘ The crew were here filming for two or three months and it was great fun living in a film set . |
| 28 | It was delicate pink coral and enhanced her maroon dress better than gold . |
| 29 | It was pure good luck that someone dropped out so I could come this weekend — at least , I thought so at the time . ’ |
| 30 | She had n't needed to speak Danish to realise the contents of the bottle : the water of life … call it would you would … it was pure unadulterated spirit and it had its equivalent in every country of the world which indulged in alcohol , so potent it should only be consumed in small doses as the tiny , liqueur-sized vessels that Rune placed on the table testified … |