Example sentences of "[adv] it was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thenceforward it was to be taken that Parliament had only conferred the decision-making power on the basis that it was to be exercised on the correct legal basis : a misdirection in law in making the decision therefore rendered the decision ultra vires . |
| 2 | Furthermore it was in our judgment wrong to have discharged the jury . |
| 3 | Rostov tried to think of something else to say , but suddenly it was as if his brain had dried up . |
| 4 | Suddenly it was as if she 'd been drugged . |
| 5 | Suddenly it was like living out a Grade B TV movie . |
| 6 | Suddenly it was in vogue to have an all-over tan — so the barer the body the better ! |
| 7 | ‘ Do you have any idea how much it was for ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I found out the following day how much it was worth when a dealer offered me £40,000 . ’ |
| 9 | Basically it was about certain British officials allegedly colluding in drug-test avoidance at some meetings in the early eighties . |
| 10 | But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ? |
| 11 | Perhaps it was for the same reason that Mrs Parvis , so Gloria claimed , put crushed up egg-shells into powdered egg so that the lodgers would think they were eating something which they were n't . |
| 12 | I should do something now , because perhaps it was for want of normal company that Eleanor Thorne lay until her mind turned the corner into madness and final decay , I should go out , I should not allow myself to brood , to carry out my sister 's peculiar whims and defer to the judgments she passes upon me . |
| 13 | My brother Frankie and sister Liza were a little older than I was , so perhaps it was for this reason that I seemed to end up doing most of the chores . |
| 14 | Perhaps it was for this reason that I hated them as much as I resented menstruation itself . |
| 15 | Perhaps it was for the best . |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps it was for days . |
| 17 | Perhaps it was at that same party that Marevna , who stayed until dawn , saw Modigliani and Beatrice fighting ferociously until Modi grabbed her and flung her through a closed window . |
| 18 | perhaps it was at this time that a clerk associated with the rebel Poitevins produced a document designed to show that Henry and Eleanor were within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity and their marriage therefore invalid . |
| 19 | Yet perhaps it was at least a contingency worth testing . |
| 20 | Oh wait a minute perhaps it was on the A drive . |
| 21 | Perhaps it was with a sense of relief that local authorities turned to a more manageable problem in the 1970s : a new approach to the control of residential areas . |
| 22 | Perhaps it was with the weather being so bad . |
| 23 | Perhaps it was in the hope of siphoning off this water that she put the beautiful white Ted-decorated house on the market as soon as it was finished . |
| 24 | Perhaps it was in the shadows under the overhang , propelled there by the lake swell ; but as he was trying to see , the overhead lights blinked once , and then again , and then they went out completely . |
| 25 | or was it in erm perhaps it was in the that you got . |
| 26 | Perhaps it was in deference to her sensibilities that he had slipped on a robe , but it did less to conceal the perfection of his body than to hint tantalisingly at it . |
| 27 | Perhaps it was by pure chance that the other woman had been there , and Matthew was entirely innocent . |
| 28 | Perhaps it was like sleepwalking and she was n't aware of it . |
| 29 | Or perhaps it was like one of those big animals Grimma had showed him in a book once . |
| 30 | Perhaps it was after all impossibly naive and idealistic to expect that frontiers would cease to be watched , but just what price are we paying for the security effected by border controls ? |