Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] it [was/were] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't afford to go anywhere , I cant walk far , so I had to buy stuff locally where it was dearer because the bus fare was 64p . |
| 2 | She loved him so much that it was painful to just stand there watching him , and her eyes filled with easy tears . |
| 3 | And then she would tell Peter firmly but gently that it was all off . |
| 4 | He wrote : ‘ The gods seem to have possessed my soul and turned it inside out … so that it was impossible for me to stay idle at home . ’ |
| 5 | Either one could discard what the philosopher had said about women and keep the rest — which in fact often meant accepting conceptions of human nature that took the male as paradigm , and trying to demonstrate that women were as fully human as men , or one could argue that the philosopher 's thought formed a system within which the attitude towards women formed an inseparable part ( see Elshtain 's ( 1981 ) discussion of the private-public distinction or Grimshaw ( 1986 ) for the examples of Aristotle and Kant ) , so that it was impossible just to take certain parts and leave the rest . |
| 6 | " When you did me the honour of appointing me to the Mastership of Stockport School I was led to suppose that the Income , inclusive of Ten Pounds paid by your Worshipful Company , amounted to nearly Three Hundred Pounds per annum , and from an Enquiry , however , during my Residence here , I have had the Mortification to find that the whole Salary was not more than £25 10 10½d , so that it was impossible for me to remain in the Situation without a Prospect of Church Preferment in the Neighbourhood , which I have no reason to hope for . |
| 7 | Fowler was sitting by an alcove where there were shelves stuffed with books , old books with broken spines and faded lettering so that it was impossible to decide what most of them were about . |
| 8 | He laughed , so that it was impossible to take offence . |
| 9 | The deep drawl had become very quiet , so that it was impossible to tell if he was angry or just bored . |
| 10 | Inside there was a cabinet against the window with a clock facing outwards so that it was visible from the cars and a telephone in direct communication with the depôt . |
| 11 | He put a chimpanzee in a cage and placed a piece of fruit outside the cage so that it was visible , but out of reach . |
| 12 | He was logical and courteous , so that it was unnecessary for Dorrainge to say that he supposed a Longhand had nearly always featured in Ireland 's greatest defeats , and Lugh was only following tradition . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was only with great effort that was able to get them to arrange the Open Door Schooling visit so that it was useful as a teaching exercise , instead of being a ceremonial procession through the commune . |
| 15 | In one version of the mental test the prices of items bought were printed on the answer sheet so that they did not have to be memorized : in an alternative version the prices were not printed so that it was necessary both to memorize the numbers and operate on them . |
| 16 | With benefit of the ‘ hindsight-ometer ’ , it can be argued that my own movement into a structural limbo contained aspects of the unconscious journey towards a new self-knowledge , when the old values were able to be adjusted if not discarded ; so that it was possible to break through the constraints imposed by the inculcated patterns of police culture , albeit in something of an unprogrammatic and fragmented manner . |
| 17 | The English Vice-Governor of the Galapagos told Darwin that even within the archipelago , there was variety : the tortoises on each island were slightly different , so that it was possible to tell which island they came from . |
| 18 | ‘ I certainly sha n't speak to her until she starts replying to my letters , ’ said Lord Grubb , cued in so that it was possible to say it at last . |
| 19 | She saw him look down at her and saw that his skin was raw and flayed in places ; the arm of flesh and blood was scraped and scorched and the silver arm on the other side was reflecting the tremendous heat , so that it was copper coloured and glinting and must be causing him immense pain . |
| 20 | He sat up and lifted the radio so that it was close to his ear . |
| 21 | Anyone who had had that knew a bit about the Treasury and knew a little bit about fighting back and working round them and all the rest of it and of giving orders direct to the Chancellor and saying , ‘ Look , this is what we must have ’ , and then getting the Cabinet to back it , so that it was harder for the Treasury to say ‘ No . ’ |
| 22 | The Chichester copy carries the signature ‘ Thomas Cantuar ’ on the title ; so that it was this very book that had such a significant influence on one of the noblest achievements of our literature and one of the greatest moulders of English life and character . |
| 23 | The steamer was full of refugees and many Chinese — the railway was full of troops moving south so that it was easier to go by river . |
| 24 | He sang in a child 's voice that was beginning to break , so that it was tuneless , the register awkward , the pitch uncertain . |
| 25 | Sometimes Julia slept , dreaming of horribly twisted versions of real life so that it was hard to tell when she was awake and worrying and when asleep and tormented . |
| 26 | His leg thrust into the volume of her skirts so that it was hard against her pelvis , and even through the multitude of petticoats she could feel the hard , rigid evidence of his ungovernable arousal as he straddled her thigh . |
| 27 | They had turned her pillow so that it was fresh , and the tawdry finery had long since been replaced by a smooth , pale quilt that reached to her breast . |
| 28 | Rain opened the doors to the garden and fetched cushions so that it was bearable to sit on the scorched chairs . |
| 29 | Excitement spread tentacles that fastened round her heart , squeezing it mercilessly so that it was unable to beat , tentacles that compressed her lungs so they were unable to breathe . |
| 30 | In re An Inquiry under the Company Securities ( Insider Dealing ) Act 1985 [ 1988 ] A.C. 660 was dealing with a different statute in an entirely different situation , where the journalist had a statutory right , subject to exceptions , to protect his sources of information , so that it was natural for the court , in evaluating a reasonable excuse under the Financial Services Act 1986 , to focus on that statutory right and its exceptions . |