Example sentences of "[adj] it [was/were] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As its critic Richard Grove had pointed out , the original plan was for the trees to live much longer ( and become more valuable timber ) , only the Commission had badly underestimated how windy it was in the British Isles , and the Sitka spruce suffered badly from ‘ wind-blow ’ , which stressed the timber and made sure that the trees would never reach the grand dimensions they do in their native temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest . |
| 2 | They often discussed his family together and how hard it was for a single man to bring up children alone . |
| 3 | Generally speaking , the longer the period of planning for an escape the more satisfactory it was for the prospective escaper . |
| 4 | You see there , there was a er not paying for it , asking about it , the finance committee how very cold it was for the elderly and they sit in there while some get taken home and |
| 5 | We even had a coal burning stove on board and very cosy it was on the cold evenings . |
| 6 | In the event , the water is far from hot — the EOKA gunmen who were once interned in this camp probably relied on the same boiler for water , and I am sure it was with a wry sense of humour that the Greek Cypriot government allocated St David 's Camp to the British contingent of the UN Forces in Cyprus . |
| 7 | So how long it was before a strange night came in the middle of the day is hard to tell , from a frog 's point of view … |
| 8 | That 's right it was like a huge I say huge I do n't know how many gallons it would hold , it was a fair copper . |
| 9 | She remembered the bride of one year , alight with the happiness of those early celebrations when the Grand Duke had granted the first liberties , and thought how strange it was for an English woman to be so mad with joy . |
| 10 | I was so hurt it was like a serious wound , it would start being painful soon but in the meantime there was just an apprehensive numbness . |
| 11 | He could not help feeling how kind it was of a fellow human being to accord him such deference , that the speaker must have a particularly sweet and generous nature , must love and honour him , and he had to struggle against this , he had to resist cravenly agreeing with whatever was said that preceded that ‘ sir ’ . |