Example sentences of "it [vb past] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether the attention it received was due to its classic looks or the fast drying coating of mud which reached on to the roof was difficult to judge , though I suspect , it was the butch overcoat which caught so many eyes . |
| 2 | QUITE HOW it happened is open to public conjecture , but from being ‘ just another band ’ a few milliseconds back , the sumptuous , swaggering pearls of suave currently referred to as Suede today find themselves the red-hottest property on a lukewarm market . |
| 3 | The reason that it became discredited on the scale and at the speed that it did was due to the efforts of the gentleman who introduced it , the right hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) . |
| 4 | It had been apparent to Hank for some time that , in spite of repeating Grade 12 at school , he was likely to fail his exams again . |
| 5 | Anselm acquiesced in this explanation and waited for peace , but then , long after it had been apparent to others , it dawned on him that he must either do the job or give it up — preferably , so far as he was concerned , the latter . |
| 6 | It had been easy to be friends when she had n't felt this sudden urgent longing for him . |
| 7 | It was important to Trent that he held to that word ; as it had been important to him never to use the term ‘ Loyalist ’ when speaking of or reporting on the Protestant terrorists in Northern Ireland . |
| 8 | She had an intimation that it had been important to her to have an impersonal initiation , in her own control , not over-whelming . |
| 9 | Wickham revived the Black Friar meeting , suggesting Maureen knew what Barron wanted to talk to her father about and asking why it had been important to them to meet in a pub instead of one of the two Fleet Street offices at their disposal . |
| 10 | When I postulated that the environmentalists might have a case , they were horrified that I of all people should express such a view , when it had been clear to them from the start that I was different from the others ( my sisters ) . |
| 11 | It had been hand-delivered to Kensington Palace and then carefully placed on top of all Diana 's other mail . |
| 12 | This was n't supposed to happen — but then , nothing today had happened as it had been supposed to . |
| 13 | He had changed his name , of course , but it had been obvious to Fedorov that he was the same man he had disposed of in the Stadtpark three weeks before . |
| 14 | There was more wrong with Sheridan than ill-temper , and it had been obvious to his father for a long time . |
| 15 | And if it had been obvious to Jean then Silas would notice it in two seconds or less . |
| 16 | For years it had been evident to him that the phrenological system was sound and he had been tormented by his inability to demonstrate it to people who , like the Collector , were inclined to scoff . |
| 17 | Steel-Maitland was running Central Office like a business enterprise , not in order to make a political point , but because it was as natural to him as it had been foreign to Percival Hughes . |