Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] it was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would have got soaked had they stayed any longer , and Ven was quite right to see it was not sensible to amble around in the pouring rain . |
| 2 | ‘ With over 300 covers it was probably too big as a fish restaurant and while it stayed successful for some time as The Chicago Meatpackers , the area around it , in the West End of London , has changed in two major ways . |
| 3 | Wrestling may have lost its Saturday tea time slot on the telly , but the fans still love it and they pack in to watch when there 's a show in town ; and some show it was too this week . |
| 4 | When she went downstairs to make herself some toast it was still very dark , although it was eight o'clock and she could hear the children talking in their room . |
| 5 | Not a recognized route , it had been a track much used and he was willing to bet it was still there . |
| 6 | Nearly half think that their school review was very thorough , almost another half think it was fairly so , with a mere 6 per cent thinking it not . |
| 7 | It was a place of idyllic beauty , and some said it was where the Argonauts had landed . |
| 8 | Some said that what was leaked was bad , some said it was too costly , and others confused these things with their feelings about BT service . |
| 9 | A choir of fifty — basses , tenors and falsettist male sopranos — filled the cathedral with such painfully beautiful harmony that some said it was too beautiful and the work of the Devil . |
| 10 | He 'd been criticised for selecting amateur crews — some said it was too tough for office workers , bakers and bank clerks . |
| 11 | On the second attempt it was just Jim Lowther and myself , but once again we 'd underestimated just how hard the upper part of the Cathedral was . |
| 12 | In retrospect , though , it was a touch too apparent how many comedians in 1979 thought it was enough just to say , um , ‘ Bleep ’ — rather tamely , nobody got past the bleeper : for shock value , you 're better off with Radio 3 . |
| 13 | It was hard to believe it was nearly August . |
| 14 | She did not admit to herself that to leave it was also to decide the issue in advance . |
| 15 | and then they informed me that it was out of stock so I wrote them rather a a polite letter saying that it took them a long to realize it was out of stock when it had been ordered in March and erm I thought their communi communicative system in their office was er non existent . |
| 16 | All agreed it was n't ‘ a designer 's car ’ but a pragmatic commercial shape that may well look imposing outside a posh hotel but will never win any design awards . |
| 17 | Even at 75mA d.c. output it was still well over 9V . |
| 18 | Many stated it was also the point at which they ‘ realised ’ they were addicted . |
| 19 | they all thought it was really funny . |
| 20 | They used , they used to be about ten quid and you , we all thought it was really good value and went to all of them but erm they 've gone up to like eighteen pounds well that was the last one I went to last year so some of them are twenty two and I paid thirty for one of them but that was at the erm Savoy Hotel that little bluebird one , that 's a real debs ' ball . |
| 21 | ‘ We all knew it was n't going anywhere ( it peaked just outside the Top 40 ) but that was n't an excuse to release any old rubbish . |
| 22 | ‘ We all felt it was very well received , ’ said Colin . |
| 23 | Peter was saying what er a good do it was how it had all gone well . |
| 24 | But the United Nations , refugee organisations , Britain 's Euro partners and MPs all said it was still not enough . |
| 25 | Amnesty International believes it was deeply flawed . |
| 26 | The company , which can send up to 15 tonnes of salmon and 500kgs of scallop meat a week to France , has now halted exports after its French haulier said it was no longer possible to insure the cargo . |
| 27 | That meant it was as good as done . |
| 28 | Colonel Goreng was moving away from the details of the operation to talk about the Western concept of ‘ human rights ’ , to mock it , to say what a ridiculous shibboleth it was when it stopped you defending the rights of those who were n't criminals , when Mrs Goreng knocked on the door . |
| 29 | When he took off the covers next morning he was shocked to find it was not a ‘ small tub worth £100 or so ’ but a sophisticated sailing vessel . |
| 30 | In the first place it was not quite so expensive . |