Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] it was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After twenty years , George still could n't decide whether they spent the time thinking or it was just to show they need n't really answer anything . |
| 2 | Churchill , backed by the military leaders , persuaded the President that it was too soon for a direct assault on Europe , and that in its place there should be an Anglo-American invasion of North Africa ( Operation Torch ) to link up with the British Army already fighting the Germans and Italians in the Western Desert . |
| 3 | She looked at her watch and realised with disappointment that it was much earlier than she had expected . |
| 4 | It flashed across my mind that it was just what he would do , he would n't go to the doctor . |
| 5 | The thought passed through Theodora 's mind that it was almost impossible for a Bishop to enter a room other than dramatically . |
| 6 | Normally three men travelled in the jeep although it was more comfortable with only two . |
| 7 | Like all the other young men I had imagined that after a few brisk preliminaries I would be sitting in an aeroplane , learning to fly , but it turned out that this was so far in the future that it was hardly mentioned . |
| 8 | Vermuyden had been occupied with rebuilding the Thames flood defences at Dagenham , which , according to an inquiry of 1623 , he left ‘ in a worse condition than it was before ’ . |
| 9 | In S 987 , a writ from 1035 , Cnut declares that he will not permit wrong to be done to Canterbury no matter who may be reeve ( presumably of Kent ) — a clear indication that it was still suffering from the attentions of his men . |
| 10 | The leading light of this humane revival was Jeremy Bentham , whose Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation contained the now famous statement to the effect that it was morally irrelevant whether animals were incapable of speech or conscious reasoning . |
| 11 | Rates at the current 7.5 to 8 per cent make cash a much better alternative than it was before . |
| 12 | The Church , the vicar and the Archdeacon and the Bishop all weighed in on Gray 's side so it was quietly dropped and he got his parish here a year later . |
| 13 | Similarly in Karsales ( Harrow ) Ltd v Wallis [ 1956 ] 2 All ER 266 the seller of a car was guilty of a total failure to perform where the car delivered was in such a poor condition that it was totally incapable of self-propulsion and could not properly be described as a " car " . |
| 14 | Military equipment which had belonged to the East German army had been supplied to Turkey during the Gulf war in 1991 on condition that it was only used to defend the borders of Turkey or other NATO member-states . |
| 15 | do n't it make you think though that Keith I mean would he really become pain in the side if it was just an ordinary battle |
| 16 | This paradoxical situation arose notwithstanding great endeavours to retain the strong links between physical and human geography and it was often thought ( e.g. Fisher , 1970 ) that a revival of the regional approach still offered the only method of recementing the two parts of the subject . |
| 17 | He knew what was happening in the boathouse and it was too ordinary to convert into anything exciting . |
| 18 | No-one knew how many bands would take part in each contest until it was all over . |
| 19 | One of the men voiced his somewhat belated fear and it was immediately taken up by others . |
| 20 | She added , ‘ I did n't understand your intention until it was too late . ’ |
| 21 | However , Moncada et al ( 1976a ) demonstrated that endothelial cells were capable of producing a potent anti-platelet aggregatory agent and it was subsequently suggested that continuous production of this substance , now called prostacyclin , explained the apparent protection against adhesion and aggregation conferred by the normal endothelium ( Moncada & Vane , 1979 ) . |
| 22 | I was now completely in the dark and it was here that I would shoot whatever film I had onto the skirting board of my makeshift cinema . |
| 23 | His transactions with his fellows began to lose their artificiality and it was generally admitted that the Prince was losing his rough edges . |
| 24 | I got to the printers with my Boy George piece and it was finally time to say , ‘ Look , this is only a thousand words long and I still have n't got to the interview . |
| 25 | I mean I knew the first day I drove in the dark was the first night we had the car and it was most odd experience |
| 26 | It was at Jarama that we first saw Derek Gardner 's revolutionary six-wheeled car and it was there , too , that a few silly millimetres deprived Hunt of his first victory of the season , achieved against stern opposition from his team-mate Jochen Mass and a Niki Lauda who had been quite seriously injured in a tractor accident back in Austria and was therefore not entirely fit . |
| 27 | And then perhaps we could then perhaps they could somebody would shovel the snow and it was very hard in the Winter you know , some places . |
| 28 | It has become apparent on some of the issues , some of the comments that we made that was if I could call it the you 'll know what we 're talking about and I do n't if we are talking about the there was there was a point somewhere where talked about ing an increase or short of journey time along the ring road and this has been taken as I understand to be that we are setting out an increase of speed er traffic on the sections of road to a junction and that 's totally in force and it was either . |
| 29 | It would be a tragedy if it was ever ‘ Europeanised ’ into bland ‘ fun climbing ’ for the masses . |
| 30 | Macca said in his column , that nobody knew about the deal until it was all but completed and said he was sure everyone at Leeds and the supporters would wish him great success at Blackburn . |