Example sentences of "was [art] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course it was the unspeakable thing that it was , about which so many details were now known , about which words failed . |
| 2 | One was the simple fact that it was directed at and mediated through adolescent boys , whose conception of the significance of their own behaviour is notably dramatic . |
| 3 | It was odd , Hope thought , as he lay deeply sunk in the great feather mattress , how perfect and desirable such a dowry would so recently have been to John — for Mary was the only child and it was apparent that the landlord would give her everything . |
| 4 | He was the only candidate when it came to the vote in the Congress , but initially there had been two other nominations for the post . |
| 5 | But I , I do n't think it was the total picture but it was one of the reasons I think that persuaded President Clinton to invite Gerry Adams , or to lift the visa for forty eight hours . |
| 6 | One of its major successes was the vital role that it played in achieving a total ivory-ban in 1989 . |
| 7 | One of its major successes was the vital role that it played in achieving a total ivory-ban in 1989 . |
| 8 | Ramsey ended the week with a conviction that Temple 's quiet explanation of a Christian philosophy of life was the right way to expound Christianity in modern society and that the emotional popular mission was the wrong way because it appealed to the wrong emotions . |
| 9 | My first choice of tide for this book was The Offshore Island because it reflects a return to our seventeenth-century political and military status , and our true position in the world today . |
| 10 | The instrument of war was the national State and it mattered little whether that State was called the beachhead of a world working class or simply an ordinary republic : the disciplines remained the same . |
| 11 | Jimenez was always the better fighter inside , although McKenzie was the tactical master when it came to jabbing and crossing with the right . |
| 12 | The lightning was the forked kind and it branched suddenly like a firework and yet like the limb of a blazing tree . |
| 13 | The 1950s was the golden age of interest-group theory in America and if it could " explain " American politics then there was the tempting presumption that it could do the job of making sense of British politics as well . |
| 14 | Sex itself was a strong idea but it evolved quite slowly . |
| 15 | Nobody knew for certain which building was going to be used , but there was a strong rumour that it was going to be the orfanotrofio , the orphanage . |
| 16 | What he describes as mild criticism was a serious libel and it was widely disseminated . |
| 17 | Carrying anything by land was still expensive , even in settled areas , and was even more expensive when there were no roads — Roger Williams travelled only 50 miles from Boston to set up Rhode Island but this was a serious matter when it meant marching through uncut forest . |
| 18 | It was a nice morning and it was good to be able to get out of the barracks and just run ; it became immediately apparent that there were some who were fitter than others , and the Corporals ran at the back encouraging the slow ones . |
| 19 | There was a distinct possibility that it could sink without trace , weighed down by listeners ' indifference , or , of course , it might possibly cause a public outcry , disgusting not merely Tunbridge Wells . |
| 20 | ROS : It was a trying episode while it lasted , but they 've done with us now . |
| 21 | She added : ‘ It was a joint decision when it was decided that he should n't retire a couple of years ago . |
| 22 | In many ways the movement was a distant bogey but it worried many landowners whose rent rolls were hit by the heavy load of poor rates , now a quarterly impost almost everywhere . |
| 23 | I thought about letting it ring , but there was a faint hope that it might be Sally . |
| 24 | We got it up to date recently , but it was a major job and it always slips back , so . |
| 25 | As the 1960s went by , cynics began to observe that barrack building in an overseas territory was a sure sign that it would soon be granted its independence ! |
| 26 | As long as President Mengistu held on , there was a real chance that it might all happen again . |
| 27 | This was a skilful manoeuvre but it risked frustration because the combination of fog , dense smoke from guns and funnels , and failing light , was making visibility increasingly poor . |
| 28 | But there was a conflicting theory that it ate leaves . |
| 29 | John Hampden was a tremendous man and it 's right that future generations can now recognise that . |
| 30 | There was a vicious irony that it should be Brian , who always confronted the guards when they treated him subhumanly , who was now being abused like a dumb animal . |