Example sentences of "it [was/were] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next it was Ethel to make difficulties , because she had n't been asked to be a bridesmaid . |
| 2 | For decades during the twentieth century it was heresy to give any credit to the ideas of Alfred Wegener ( 1880–1930 ) , and others before him , that the continents slowly moved in different directions over the surface of the globe . |
| 3 | At that time in the fifties , it was heresy to extend the Romano-British period beyond AD 400 . |
| 4 | So it was relief to find that people still wanted to employ me . |
| 5 | It was nonsense to pretend it had been done solely for her benefit . |
| 6 | Most modern philosophers would say it was nonsense to say that Cruelty was cruel and only call people cruel or particular things . |
| 7 | Most modern philosophers would say it was nonsense to say that cruelty was cruel , you can only call people cruel , particular things . |
| 8 | Andrew Crisp , from Winchester , said it was nonsense to suggest that the Government had abandoned the entrepreneur by raising the cost of borrowing . |
| 9 | Mr Maclean insisted that it was nonsense to suggest there had been any contamination of the food chain or to make comparisons to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster . |
| 10 | That it was folly to persevere , a needless risk . |
| 11 | Mr Teicher claims to have argued well before Iran 's Islamic revolution that it was folly to rely on the shah when his regime was collapsing from within . |
| 12 | It was bliss to feel some of the tension ease out of her , but it returned abruptly at the sharp sound of a breaking twig . |
| 13 | So at last I was to savour the delights of staging at Rutbah Wells fort and , after travelling most of the daylight hours from Baghdad , it was bliss to get into the fort with all its comforts . |
| 14 | Even so , it was agony to shuffle in slippers into the chapel for Compline . |
| 15 | It was Bugner to putt first from the edge of the green . |
| 16 | Still caught in a clench of emotion after the effort of the ceremony , he had accepted a spilling cup of whisky from Donald McLaggan and drained it as though it was milk to quench a thirst . |
| 17 | And he was going to somewhere in North End I think it was Huip to get barn to make this ale with . |
| 18 | It was Andy to putt first . |
| 19 | It was heaven to see . |
| 20 | And then it was summer to put ankle socks on she would n't take them off then . |
| 21 | And it did n't worry him when he got into the sensitive parts with his drill ; my strangled cries were of no avail and he carried on remorselessly to the end : I had the impression that Hector thought it was cissy to feel pain , or maybe he was of the opinion that suffering was good for the soul . |
| 22 | Certainly there were some areas of the city they thought it was Death to enter . |
| 23 | He felt it was time to ask about the stains on the clothes that Jim Lancaster had taken to the dry cleaner 's . |
| 24 | Finally it was time to tackle the design of the hotel 's talking-point — the vast fresh-water swimming-pool Stephen planned to construct to cater for guests who , having come thousands of miles to see the Caribbean , decided they did n't actually want to swim in it . |
| 25 | She said a tiny minority were making life miserable for the majority and said it was time to tackle the root causes of crime . |
| 26 | She said a tiny minority were making life miserable for the majority and said it was time to tackle the root causes of crime . |
| 27 | ‘ I decided it was time to say goodbye , but before I could give notice Sam Hall , the Benskin 's area manager , phoned me to say the company was going to turn the Harrow into a managed house . |
| 28 | It was time to say dasvadanya ( goodbye ) to almost the entire carriage : the old man with a chest full of medals from the Great Patriotic War against the Nazis ; the young pianist visiting her estranged father in Riga and , of course , the gentle engineer with whom I had shared so much food and time . |
| 29 | Returning to Switzerland for a week it was time to say our goodbyes to each other . |
| 30 | I suppose that at that moment , the night before I stepped ashore to build a new life , it was time to say goodbye to the old . |