Example sentences of "[be] [conj] it was [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is n't even known where on Krakatoa the eruption was centred , but the chances are that it was Perboewetan , since the lava flows in the crater looked extremely fresh when they were examined in the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | When war was first declared , and she was co-opted into the military , he imagined that her first reaction had been that it was typical of these men to mess up her promising career like that . |
| 3 | The real objection to the use of the statement may in any event have been that it was self-serving rather than that it was protected by privilege , which could have been waived by the defendant . |
| 4 | But I knew that that was where God wanted me to be because it was such a miracle . |
| 5 | cos I would always thought Marks were that it was one day |
| 6 | When I spoke to some of these women alone much later I asked them why Asian women often reacted like this ; their answers were that it was good for a man 's Izzat . |
| 7 | The difficulties of this approach were that it was slow , time-consuming and could help very few . |
| 8 | Not that I welcome change ; I was very satisfied as things were but it was obvious they would n't go on indefinitely . ’ |
| 9 | On the one hand , it would seem that if a claim can be framed as one in contract or tort , or if it concerns a private legal right , it need not be brought under Ord. 53 even if the very ground on which the respondent 's action is alleged to be a tort or breach of contract is that it was illegal in a public law sense . |
| 10 | The traditional view of a trust is that it was enforceable only in personam , that is against the trustee . |
| 11 | In some ways that was the classic sound that I had with Whitesnake , but that sound was n't usable in later , more AOR versions of either that band or even other things that I 've done ; all you can say is that it was right for that particular music . |
| 12 | In fact , the next paper I sent him was called , if I remember rightly , ‘ The Poet — the Public — the Faith ’ , and I had dispatched it to a review called The Green Quarterly , the only recollection of which I have is that it was quarterly and that it was green . |
| 13 | The argument is that it was easier for them to maintain the part of their image of statelessness which consisted of ‘ how we have always done things ’ , than it would have been if they had individually moved into town and settled into a bidonville . |
| 14 | My guess is that it was this if anything which provoked the reaction amongst British critics at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival , and the covert but unsuccessful attempt , reportedly led by a British daily newspaper , to have the film taken out of the Festival altogether . |
| 15 | A drawback of this fire-setting technique is that it was liable to impair the value of the product by cracking it . |
| 16 | The general view is that it was basic economic forces rather than the events of 1381 which brought about the end of villeinage and the enfranchisement of the peasant class ( 11 , p.29 ) . |
| 17 | A possible reason is that it was difficult to get arms and ammunition to the right place , despite the virtual absence of border controls between Germany and its western neighbours . |
| 18 | Perhaps I 'll come to the conclusion [ that ] … that is because it was real . |
| 19 | This is because it was important to prevent other people on either side from using the quarrel as a pretext to pursue their own ends , to justify their own thieving and homicide . |
| 20 | The question is whether it was possible for an ancient Athenian to possess a social representation in this sense , or whether we have to wait until the modern age for social representations to appear . |
| 21 | So brief is the note , and couched in such general terms , that it is difficult to base much upon it , but worth noting are the facts that he clearly saw his choice as lying in the normal way between tedris and kaza , which he calls two paths or careers ; that a signal disadvantage of teaching was that it was unremunerative ; and , not least , that , unable to contemplate either alternative , he was able to find a home for his talents and interests in the bureaucracy . |
| 22 | Carew 's immediate response was that it was garish and vulgar , like Durkin himself . |
| 23 | The decision was that it was unlawful direct discrimination because Mr James had been treated differently than if he had been a woman . |
| 24 | The mystery was that it was successful for more than thirty years . |
| 25 | In addition the section indicated that the intuitive explanation of N ( d 1 ) was that it was equal to the rate of change in the cell price divided by the rate of change in the share price : . |
| 26 | What he did not realise at that stage was that it was meaningless to compare Baldwin 's speed with that of Bonar Law , for Baldwin did not work at all in Law 's sense . |
| 27 | The point we sought to make , Mr Smith , was that it was ludicrous to assume — as Ford has — that millions of people aspire to nothing better than an average car , and to note that the master marketeers will probably get away with peddling mediocrity yet again . |
| 28 | One major presupposition of these early surveys was that it was preferable to study the whole population of a society in order to ensure the reliability and accuracy of the data collected . |
| 29 | ‘ My feeling — and Pam ( Ma Larkin ) , David ( Pa ) and Phillip ( Charley ) agreed — was that it was better to do four episodes really well than six halfheartedly . |
| 30 | Ace had actually understood some time ago , but if there was one lesson that she would take away gladly from her time with the Doctor , it was that it was better to have people underestimate your abilities than overestimate them . |