Example sentences of "it was [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was than proposed we should have a vote about a vote . ’ |
| 2 | Luvverly song it was an' all . |
| 3 | Nor can any reconstructed , facsimile wilderness ever approach the condition of nature as it was before human influence became dominant . |
| 4 | It was but one of the kindnesses to younger men to which both Donaldson and Barry referred . |
| 5 | At that time it was but one element in the whole decision-making process of what was I going to do with my life . |
| 6 | This place … it was but one of many thousand such monasteries throughout Chung Kuo . |
| 7 | It was a part of the prophecy of disintegration and chaos to be expected in the latter days ; within that context it was but one detail in a large picture , but here it was all , it was an answer . |
| 8 | It was but one of his many books . |
| 9 | Catch weights , so do n't matters what it was but that man who was weighing them he got no brains , if one was overweight and go down , the next one got ta be underweight and he 'd take that off that and put it on that , he was so quick , wh that 's what he , he was a good checker , they were good men then |
| 10 | Well it was but that was a long time ago I started that , it was tucked inside the book thank you . |
| 11 | I wo , well she was awake in the middle of the night , I do n't know what time it was but all I could hear was mummy , mummy , mummy ! |
| 12 | It was but another appalling accident of war which is never slow to throw them up . |
| 13 | diverting attention from his hopelessness , while helping the group to support him vis-a-vis the child to be helped — not by recounting their own success stories but by recognising what support potential he might already have , buried as it was but ready to be drawn out by support from others . |
| 14 | It was that fiendish Perdita Macleod . |
| 15 | And the farther away they were , the more likely it was that one tribe would dominate the district . |
| 16 | Partly it was for lack of anything else to be curious about , the usual island obsession with trivialities ; partly it was that one cryptic phrase from Mitford and the discovery about Leverrier ; partly , perhaps mostly , a peculiar feeling that I had a sort of right to visit . |
| 17 | Perhaps it was that that made the soldier lower his rifle , out of a sense of pity . |
| 18 | Maybe it was that that precarious balance in her nature — that he loved . |
| 19 | It also , in those days was mileage for the tyres was paid on the number of miles run per tyre , so at the end of the month you could record , you knew what tyres were on a certain bus , you knew of how many miles that bus had done , so you recorded that particular tyre on that bus had run so many miles and it was that that we paid for our tyres that way . |
| 20 | So from a mass master timetable , each bus , route number was interpreted on to a what we called a running board and er it was that that the driver ran to . |
| 21 | It was that that made me see the other side of him . |
| 22 | It 's something that er not always happens like in the back propagation learning and people who invented it did n't realize it was that that important and did n't advertise it . |
| 23 | And so it was that all Hollywood 's difficulties led somewhat accidentally to what Ralph A. Bauer has described as a period whose movies ‘ were perhaps as varied and intriguing ’ as the movies produced in any comparably short period in American history . |
| 24 | In the UK the CAA , too , had been fully involved in every stage of the investigation , and so it was that all the necessary corrective measures were taken as far as the Boeing 707/300–400 series was concerned and the respective airworthiness authorities were fully informed . |
| 25 | Historians have to explain how it was that slower increase up to then permitted an expansion of the home market which the later faster rate of population increase did not reverse . |
| 26 | What they could have in common it would be difficult to guess , unless it was that both were defiantly unacademic and felt the need to make a common front against the teachers — not that learning sat particularly heavy on any of them , either . |
| 27 | ‘ Apart from selling many more Reed titles , ’ he says , ‘ the key fact to come out of it was that more than half the customers who came into our shops to buy a promoted Reed title at a lower price bought on average two-and-a-half books at full price , and so the venture , as far as we were concerned , was highly profitable . ’ |
| 28 | Hare wondered aloud on television why it was that English culture had lost the ability to state clearly that Keats was a better poet , for example , than Bob Dylan . |
| 29 | But so it was that this Hungarian son of a would-be inventor moved towards his abiding preoccupation with scientific ideas . |
| 30 | In any case , the more Western defence planners began to think in terms of genuine forward defence in Europe against a Soviet attack , the more obvious it was that this could never be a realistic policy without a West German contribution . |