Example sentences of "it was [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of the 1980 's a typeface would have cost around $4,500 and you would probably have had to wait a couple of weeks while it was digitised from some master copy . |
| 2 | Although , perhaps it was fortunate in one sense that er it completely destroyed the main machine shop and er it , it all happened over a period of about twenty to twenty five minutes . |
| 3 | Indeed , archaeologists now believe it was due to agricultural mismanagement combined with a booming population , for investigation of a major palace in the site at Copan , Honduras , has revealed that there was only a small contingent of specialist workers employed in constructing the elaborate structure , in other words that this was not enough to overburden the economy as is sometimes alleged to be the cause of the collapse of that civilization . |
| 4 | A very small proportion of sufferers thought that it was due to previous surgery ( 28 , 7% ) or to muscle weakness , anxiety , infection , overweight ( 14 ( 3% ) or less in each case ) . |
| 5 | It was due to this second helping that he rejected the quail and mutton cutlets ( with pickled walnuts ) as Alice and Algernon , with a somewhat nervous eye on Lord Beddington , offered them . |
| 6 | And , because all this capability was part of the Macintosh operating system it was available to any software developer so almost every package that appears for the system works the same way . |
| 7 | I mean it was invaluable in some sense but erm |
| 8 | It was apparent from that day that he had a natural talent that was waiting to be developed . |
| 9 | The size and political diversity of the coalition , however , meant that it was subject to factional infighting which at times threatened its very existence . |
| 10 | All in all , the juvenile labour exchange legislation served to institutionalize the transition from school to full-time employment , and in so doing provided it with priests and rituals ; the transition became a rite de passage and , therefore , brought this aspect of the adolescent 's life into a formal arena where it was subject to critical scrutiny . |
| 11 | There came a stage when the songwriter no longer wanted to be bound by the agreement so he sought a declaration that it was contrary to public policy and therefore unenforceable . |
| 12 | The applicant sought judicial review of Lautro 's decision to issue the notice on the ground , inter alia , that it was contrary to natural justice . |
| 13 | It was crucial to this country 's status as an advanced nation . |
| 14 | It was crucial for successful demand management that central government generated or contained investment to an appropriate level . |
| 15 | It was freezing in that car today , he kept opening the window . |
| 16 | On 22 June 1991 , when the draft s 41 report — detailing the fraud — was handed to the Bank , PW believed that it was close to final agreement on the refinancing and the accounts and that BCCI would be saved . |
| 17 | you make your sound and you carry on and on and on , I 'm gon na keep on taping different people 's make their sound and then we 're gon na see what it feels like you 're in hospital , okay , now it does n't matter if somebody 's got the same sound as somebody else , it 's no big deal , alright , because eventually they 'll all blend into each other , but as soon as I 've tapped you , make your sound , alright patients , come on where 's the machines ? okay , stop , now when did it start becoming out of hand ? , at one stage we did n't really know where we were to , once , once I say ten people , okay , and that was also due to the fact that we had perhaps too many erm patients moaning , alright , it was good in one respect because why , it made obvious that we were in a , a hospital well something like , but erm when you 're in smaller groups and you 're making your sound machines , obviously it 's much easier to control and to make the overall sound more realistic , do n't you think ? , so , mm , what we 're going to do is we 're going to get into different groups , into groups of four , five , no big deal , you 're welcome to only if you want to , and , you 're going to , each group is going to choose er a profession , okay , you can be brick layers , you can be er musicians , er you can be er gardener , I mean absolutely you can be factory workers , you can be absolutely anything , and what you 're going to do is you 're going to choose , each person will choose a sound which is represented of that particular person , er profession , okay , and you 'll going to make your sounds simultaneously so that as for the audience who are simply listening to you can just close our eyes cos we wo n't , you wo n't be acting you 'll be making these sounds and using , we 'll close our eyes and we 'll know exactly where we are , okay , and then after that once we 've done that just , before you choose your profession to know what this is going to lead onto , after that we 're going to put movements to that profession , so when , if you were in a factory going er putting bottles on , on top top of bottles , you would have the movements going and you would have the sound going and I want you to build up , up , the sound machine which becomes the movement machine as well , so you 're almost robotic so you , shh , shh , or whatever , however your sound , and each person does their thing in the factory or where ever they are and we will be able to see from listening and looking at the movements and obviously remember just because you 're not an example it does n't mean you ca n't talk , there might be for instance there would be a doctor going stand back , stand back , you know , er , in , in the you can use voices , but also obviously very , very effective to have sound voices , shh , shh , to create that part of it , have instruments , but this is how they actually started lay down sound tracks for movies , people specialize |
| 18 | More than four-fifths of non-executives thought it was undesirable for one person to be both chairman and chief executive . |
| 19 | At first , this largely involved the search for loop-holes in central government legislation : if , for example , the rules suggested that future grant depended on spending in a particular year , then it was possible with little difficulty to prepare the accounts to show that spending had been higher or lower that year ( whichever was the required answer ) , More important , perhaps , as time went on , it become common for councils and their treasurers to seek new sources of funding which were not covered by the rules or were covered by different rules . |
| 20 | It was possible at this time to cross the harbour by stepping from one boat to another , so closely were they moored . |
| 21 | However , while the views of my right hon. Friend the Member for Ashton-under-Lyne ( Mr. Sheldon ) on Europe have not always been similar to mine , I was pleased to hear him say that he could not see how it was possible for 12 Finance Ministers in ECOFIN — about which we hear a great deal these days — to control a European central bank established on the model set out in the present draft treaty prepared by the Dutch Government . |
| 22 | She was wondering if it was true , if he could somehow arrange her release ; doctors had ordered her internment , so surely it was possible for another doctor to end it . |
| 23 | The Court of Appeal rejected the view that had previously held sway , namely that it was possible for any employee to work both ordinarily in Great Britain and outside it . |
| 24 | He advised his student that a comprehensive microlight conversion course was necessary as it was possible for conventional control ( three-axis ) pilots with insufficient weight-shift experience to make incorrect control inputs when under a heavy workload or in turbulent conditions . |
| 25 | The gay movement learned greatly from black analysis and black political experience , and it was possible in 1970 tor Huey Newton , joint founder of the Black Panther Party , to welcome alliance with the women 's and gay movements . |
| 26 | For the project to be successful it was essential for each stool of the tripod which supported it — the government , the livestock owners and the Bank — to have an equal commitment to its success and to perceive the project in roughly the same terms . |
| 27 | A broken key had been replaced by one newly cut , and it was triple-strung with new gut strings . |
| 28 | This can be seen in the religious movements mentioned above which reacted against an orthodoxy which in its own way had a distinctly rationalist colouring , even though it was opposed to humanistic rationalism . |
| 29 | It was early in that season that Shankly died . |
| 30 | It was impossible for middle class feminists to attack theories of sexual difference directly because of their purported scientific authenticity . |