Example sentences of "it was [adv] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was eventually terraced and became known as a sort of Methodist ‘ cathedral ’ . |
| 2 | It was surprisingly warm and within seconds he had fallen into an exhausted sleep . |
| 3 | It was almost a year before it was strictly necessary and at the time there were voices advising delay . |
| 4 | Ludicrous though the description might sound in print , for an organisation that had never numbered more than sixty followers and had rarely mustered more than twenty , it was strictly accurate and hardly to be dismissed by a regime uniquely devoted to National Socialism . |
| 5 | But it was equally long and straight . |
| 6 | It was a hard philosophy , but he claimed it was both immutable and universal , as true in the fifth Dominion , called Earth , as it was in the Second . |
| 7 | Inside it was both noisy and freezing . |
| 8 | Jurisdiction over the peasantry operated on markedly more authoritarian principles ; as a result , it was both arbitrary and capable of producing solid financial rewards . |
| 9 | Presumably it was both practical and political reasons that led him to the subject working party strategy . |
| 10 | Thus it was both dark and hot that afternoon : the tall buildings on either side causing the one , and the low ceiling and tightly shut windows the other . |
| 11 | It was both strange and terrible to see the ghosts of each of my friends leave their bodies , then to watch those bodies rise and run into the nightwoods , in pursuit of their souls . ’ |
| 12 | There has been so much drama , not only over the first two days , when Henri Leconte had made his fairy tale return to Davis Cup play with his stunning defeat of Sampras in the second singles and then his inspirational contribution to France 's doubles success as he and Forget maintained an 8–0 unbeaten record together in the competition , that it was both right and proper that there should have been more to come . |
| 13 | As for serfdom , the economic case against it was both general and specific . |
| 14 | He had got a prize for the design , although the users of it would not now have endorsed this since it was both hot and noisy . |
| 15 | It was both wet and dry at the same time . |
| 16 | When I saw buildings coming up , I drove the Felder off the track behind an outcrop of rock , where I hoped it was both safe and unobtrusive for the night . |
| 17 | I was talking to Marty W. recently about ‘ Good Rockin' , and while he agreed it was both enjoyable and extremely well done , he confided that something which did n't come over was the almost unbelievable youth of everyone involved back then . |
| 18 | So we shared one between six and it was both wonderful and sufficient . |
| 19 | I was me and it was both frightening and exciting , like driving very fast round a precipitous bend with someone now and again taking my hands off the wheel and forcing me to trust . |
| 20 | Which was that Ellen had sworn herself to celibacy while she worked as a cook , a decision that was to me as eccentric as it was both incomprehensible and frustrating . |
| 21 | He says it 's a period that appeals to him because it was both sophisticated and wicked . |
| 22 | To Flavia like that other first time it was both half-known and startling . |
| 23 | When it turned up , it was both horrible and useful ; a mind-boggling twist to the Iran story ( Pelion piled on Ossa , indeed ) , but also a magnificent diversion from the Iranian debacle to the Nicaraguan controversy , from approved Policy to possibly freelance meanderings , and from Reagan to North . |
| 24 | It was both horrible and necessary , if only to prevent the spread of the disease throughout the Domain ; but it was just that — the horrible necessity of death — that gave it its fascination . |
| 25 | It was not haute cuisine , but it was both edible and nourishing . |
| 26 | Until recently it was both convenient and accurate to use the term ‘ Western ’ to describe this asymmetry , and the idea of ‘ Western imperialism ’ was widely acknowledged as a way of analyzing the global system . |
| 27 | It was rather small and it had been hung , quite casually , on a nail protruding from the wall . |
| 28 | It was rather dark and greasy . |
| 29 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 30 | He had no right to wear the tie but he felt that it was rather distinguished and so far no one had caught him out . |