Example sentences of "it was a [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a clever but risky move . |
| 2 | It was a force that she tried to hide away tidily , as her mother would have done , because it was a dark and hideous thing that shook her violently . |
| 3 | It was a dark and terrible time . |
| 4 | During the interval it was a chastened but not dispirited European team which lunched together in the solitude of the team H.Q. We will never learn what was discussed but there is no doubt that it had the desired effect . |
| 5 | It was a long and anxious debate about Ramsey without him knowing ; between the Archbishop of Canterbury , the prime minister Eden , the prime minister 's patronage secretary Bevir , Garbett the outgoing Archbishop of York , and Wand the outgoing Bishop of London . |
| 6 | Charles and Diana are both very fond of the Antipodes — Charles feels particularly at home there after his months at Timbertop — but it was a long and exhausting tour . |
| 7 | It was a long and tricky operation . |
| 8 | Staines , it appeared , was not far from Chertsey , but it was a long and tedious journey , and meant travelling by omnibus first of all to get to the big station across the river in York Road . |
| 9 | It was a long and bitter struggle with great losses on both sides , causing a serious weakening of the imperial army . |
| 10 | It was a long and awkward journey but Jarvis enjoyed it . |
| 11 | It was a long and tiring journey across country and out to the remote airfield , and a wasted one it seemed . |
| 12 | It was a long and difficult process , but one which has been so successful that it will be a major surprise if Torrance does n't qualify for the Ryder Cup at Kiawah Island in September . |
| 13 | But it was a long and lonely quarter of an hour . |
| 14 | It was a long and difficult operation and caused the plaintiff considerable pain afterwards . |
| 15 | It was a long and painful labour , and it broke my heart that I could do little to help her . |
| 16 | It was a straightforward and most pertinent question . |
| 17 | But once I got to the hospital and after the operation the doctor reassured me it was a straightforward and took forty-five minutes . |
| 18 | With a wonderful smell of lemons and a tart/tangy flavour it was a dry and very pleasant . |
| 19 | It was a strong and diverse movement which originally had its roots in the hippie communes and the pop lyrics of the earlier Sixties , but had , by the end of the decade , encompassed so many political and social causes — particularly in America — that governments had a full-time spy network , through the likes of the FBI , the CIA and Scotland Yard 's Special Branch , keeping tabs on its leaders . |
| 20 | It was a sober and deliberate decision . |
| 21 | It was a grand or more each time . |
| 22 | And , Mr Davey reminded his audience , it was a substantial and ‘ certain ’ market , worth around £200m a year . |
| 23 | Five weeks into the climb , it was a tired and tattered team which reached the haven of the Exit Cracks . |
| 24 | It was a hundred and fifty years ago that the French writer Alphonse Karr said : ‘ the more things change , the more they are the same . ’ |
| 25 | It was a hundred and fifty thousand pounds last year , a hundred fifty po thousand this year and whether he will put the breaks on it next year cos he needs the money , I do n't know . |
| 26 | It was , it was a hundred and sixty over ninety or something , er I , what was it now ? |
| 27 | Net debt as you can see er , from the next slide and indeed it was in the balance sheet er , it was a hundred and seventy million against a hundred and eighty five on thirtieth of June . |
| 28 | If it was a hundred and fifty thousand you could still only have twenty five thousand . |
| 29 | Erm , then when you took it , B , it was a hundred and twenty degrees , so it was the |
| 30 | it was a hundred and ten , was n't it ? |