Example sentences of "it was [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vivid acceleration that followed was as effortless as it was devastating . |
| 2 | I do n't think that one could have a consensus with that regard , I mean people were split really on that issue erm as I have said , personally I was always against the whole thing , against the war in general between Iraq and Iran because it was devastating for both countries . |
| 3 | It was blue . |
| 4 | Finally , it was Blue Ash Farm . |
| 5 | It was blue with a high red collar and I thought it cheap-looking and ugly . |
| 6 | I came through and it was blue lights from wall to wall … |
| 7 | He realized it was blue and saw the loose thread writhing at the button of the prison shirt worn by the smiling dark haired girl . |
| 8 | It was blue . |
| 9 | This , it was blue , I think , blue at one stage . |
| 10 | Oh it was blue last year was n't it ? |
| 11 | I thought it was blue . |
| 12 | It should n't have done because it was extra funding it should have been left out but they made |
| 13 | It was extra train on Sunday and today , to prepare for tomorrow 's vital game against Peterborough . |
| 14 | The land , particularly where it was peat-covered , sank as the water was removed and thus drainage involved lifting water out of the fields into high-level drains and rivers . |
| 15 | But er some of the exhibitions at the great er World Fair were really , there were some splendid things , although the main er theme of the thing was n't so grandio well it was grandiose in a way but just too much so . |
| 16 | ‘ So it was do-it-yourself time , ’ says bill , ‘ and , with the help of my father , we did just that . |
| 17 | In the face of mounting pressure the British government at last sensed it was incumbent on them to act . |
| 18 | It was not the only banquet taking place in Kinsai , but it was clearly the one at which the nobility of the Khanate of even the lowest degree had thought it was incumbent upon them to be seen . |
| 19 | He began on a note of defiance : " If what is meant by that is that the President of the Republic has personally taken the decisions which it was incumbent upon him to take , that is entirely correct . " |
| 20 | Leavisism assumed that its rewriting of the canon had a once-and-for-all quality , so that it was inconceivable that anyone could come to admire Shelley again , though this is precisely what has happened under the influence of Harold Bloom , who is dedicated to overturning the Eliot-Leavis version of poetic history . |
| 21 | Increased aid was not going to discourage people immediately and it was inconceivable that increased voluntary repatriation could suffice on its own , he said . |
| 22 | It was inconceivable that she could take from Mrs Barnet anything that was rightly hers , nor did Ruth flatter herself that Joss Barnet 's interest in her was anything but transient . |
| 23 | For the Right-Ons , many of whom had committed the cardinal mistake of taking other people 's newspapers too seriously , it was inconceivable that this diet of trash should be allowed to succeed . |
| 24 | After all , the Frenchman had stood unchallenged for so long , it was inconceivable that he should be removed … |
| 25 | It was as if someone had asserted that it was inconceivable that a mammal should lay an egg and then a duck-billed platypus had turned up . |
| 26 | It was inconceivable that the member states would have agreed , after years of negotiations , to a Common Fisheries Policy based on rules of registration that were themselves incompatible with Community law . |
| 27 | It was inconceivable that she should n't be able to throw him off , but she could n't . |
| 28 | I thought that Robert had covered his tracks well and then that it was inconceivable that Lili , who knew everything , should n't have known all that her husband did . |
| 29 | It was inconceivable that I 'd lost the bag forever . |
| 30 | But it was inconceivable that he should meet the lord of the house inadequately dressed . |