Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 14–16 ) was right to say that it was only with the Peloponnesian War that the real migration from country to city took place . |
| 2 | thank you um , it will be quick ah one of the things which caused distress last year was the reduction in the for sixth formers and I was sorry to see that it would n't be restored this time . |
| 3 | Six to eight men hauled the Durham wagon round the streets — they said it was easier to move than it looked , as once it was rolling it was not difficult until it had to be stopped ! |
| 4 | Erm , you see they were dyed on the wrong side you know they were of course it was easier to penetrate than it would be if they dyed them on the right side you see , it was technically i far far superior . |
| 5 | In fact , he was willing to admit that it was . |
| 6 | The other officers drifted away , and Charles following into the office was relieved to see that it hardly differed from those he had known . |
| 7 | But I was delighted to see that it was in fact my hat . |
| 8 | ‘ I was delighted to score because it was my first one at home this season . |
| 9 | On the third day , September 26th , I saw a sail , and was delighted to discover that it was an English ship , on its way home to England . |
| 10 | Unfortunately fresh tissue was not available from the carcinoma , and therefore it was impossible to say whether it also contained a p53 gene mutation . |
| 11 | However , as it was impossible to know whether it was blow one or blow ten ( the maximum number permitted at the moment ) which drew the blood on Roy 's Dream , it did serve to underline that though the Jockey Club may be moving in the right direction , its pace of reform is still too slow , leaving it too open to criticism . |
| 12 | Next door , through the partition wall , some shouts were audible , so muffled it was impossible to tell whether it was a violent assault or someone asking for his bath to be turned off . |
| 13 | Enveloped by the cloak , it was impossible to tell if it was male or female , but the worshipper had evidently finished praying . |
| 14 | Because it was pointless to deny that it did . |
| 15 | Pipeline was easy to judge since it was basically a one-manoeuvre event : what everyone was after was the tube . |
| 16 | ‘ He was a great friend and , like Noel Coward , he wrote the kind of dialogue that was easy to remember because it was the kind you would like to write yourself but could n't , ’ he said . |
| 17 | It was easy to imagine that it might have been Camelot , like in the picture story-books I 'd read . |
| 18 | It was hard to disagree that it was necessary . |
| 19 | It was hard to say whether it was animal or human . |
| 20 | In the darkness it was hard to see but it looked as if there was n't even a railing . |
| 21 | It was perfectly quiet ( no sounds ever reached him from the rest of the Tolbooth ; it was hard to believe that it existed , the street below was more real ) . |
| 22 | Alfred 's shop looked as though it had been closed and deserted for months ; it was hard to believe that it was only three days since a few people , at least , had been entering through the rickety door with its small glass panes to buy patent medicines or seek advice . |
| 23 | One 11 year old who was asked about the shape of the Earth replied that he knew he was supposed to say that it was shaped like a sphere , but that he thought people only say that so that it would fit easily on a globe : |
| 24 | And it was supposed to scream if it was taken out of the house ’ . |
| 25 | Expecting to find a look of mockery on his face , she was disconcerted to see that it held nothing of the sort . |
| 26 | In view of the £632,000 of bid costs announced with yesterday 's figures the company was quick to stress that it has no other hostile targets in its sights . |
| 27 | I do n't know what happened about that , but it probably was put in a heap to rot , but I remember that one load we had to take out was dreadful , it was all wadded and it was heavy , and we could not separate it , you know wrecked my back . |
| 28 | McNeill was reluctant to accept because it meant asking the club for 14 tickets . |
| 29 | That night he was unable to sleep and it was only after taking aspirin tablets that he was able to get any rest . |
| 30 | The Cabinet , meeting on 18 October , was unable to decide whether it was preferable to retain some private investment , as the Civil Aviation Committee recommended , or to proceed to complete nationalization . |