Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meant that the product was incredibly easy to learn and , most important of all , left all the control in the hands of the user . |
| 2 | It was so strange to meet and talk to them in the flesh . |
| 3 | But I was so anxious to please or , more accurately , to avoid the stigma of being abnormal , that I did manage to find myself a boyfriend . |
| 4 | It was so easy to over-rivet and depress the riveted areas . |
| 5 | There was so much to achieve and I fretted endlessly about the work that was needed to co-ordinate it all . |
| 6 | graces could be an embarrassment , for he had no polite small-talk and did not pretend to any ; his visits to Windsor were an ordeal for guest and hosts alike , to him because he disliked formality and to his hosts because he was so difficult to entertain and because he did not mince words with the King . |
| 7 | That is why his conduct with regard to Heather was so difficult to understand and why , in the end , I concluded that he was in the grip of an obsession he was powerless to resist . ’ |
| 8 | On some cases yes because I was always told this man he that used to come and he was so clean looking and that he was a barber . |
| 9 | The skin was so beautiful to touch and the girl had such a beautiful face . |
| 10 | She was obviously pleased to accept and i presented her with a basket of roses to celebrate.2 |
| 11 | The serialization was begun while Pickwick Papers was only half written and later instalments overlapped with the commencement of Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 12 | An Eddie McGoldrick free-kick was only half cleared and Osborn produced a superb finish from 20 yards to maintain the Londoners ' recent revival . |
| 13 | But he did not mean that a bishop was utterly free to act and think as he thought fit . |
| 14 | But herein lay his greatest distress at this moment : he was utterly unable to name and fix on a place . ’ |
| 15 | He had indeed gained strength since he came home but was nevertheless prone to stumble and even fall , as the drug which was keeping his mind rational was also weakening his muscles and bones . |
| 16 | He had found his kingdom , and though it filled him with Adamistic yearning , he was somehow powerless to enter and possess it , Why was this ? |
| 17 | Brussels was full of rumours about a French attack , rumours that the Duke was scarcely able to correct or deny . |
| 18 | It was just interesting to do and , you know , the questions they asked |
| 19 | It was agreed this was not easy to do and it illustrated that deciding whether pupils had attained a long list of criteria would be a very considerable task . |
| 20 | However , it was not easy to use and required a certain amount of both skill and effort to achieve decent results . |
| 21 | Harry broke the seal and unfolded it , taking his time over the reading of it , for although he could read adequately well , Sir Gregory 's handwriting was not easy to decipher and there were a number of peculiarly spelt words . |
| 22 | Unfortunately his exposition was not easy to read and it was Hamilton 's quaternions which gained the more attention . |
| 23 | Life was not all work and no play for women any more than for men ; even if they had chores to do at home , the women compositors — who almost by definition young and/or unmarried — had the chance to escape duty for pleasure from time to time . |
| 24 | Their father told them that as they were the only people present in the deserted station , it was not possible to see or hear such things . |
| 25 | It was not possible to resell or rebottle hot whiskies . |
| 26 | By an originating summons dated 18 December 1991 the plaintiffs , the Halifax Building Society , the Woolwich Equitable Building Society , the Leeds Permanent Building Society , and the Alliance and Leicester Building Society , sought ( 1 ) a declaration that , upon the true construction of the ombudsman scheme recognised under Part IX of the Building Societies Act 1986 , the first defendant Stephen Bristow Edell , the ombudsman appointed under the scheme , was not entitled to investigate or determine ( a ) the complaint against the first plaintiff received by him from Michael Robert Allen and Christine Allen , the second and third defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation for mortgage assessment prepared for the first plaintiff had been negligently prepared , ( b ) the complaint against the second plaintiff received by him from Jeffrey Leonard Brommage and Heather Maureen Brommage , the fourth and fifth defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for the second plaintiff had been negligently prepared , ( c ) the complaint against the third plaintiff received by him from Lawrence Frederick West and Christa West , the sixth and seventh defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for the third plaintiff had been negligently prepared , and ( d ) the complaint against the fourth plaintiff received by him from Joseph Paul Hardcastle and Astrid Marie Hardcastle , the eighth and ninth defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for them had been negligently prepared ; and ( 2 ) a determination , upon the true construction of the scheme , whether and if so in what circumstances the first defendant was entitled to investigate and determine a complaint relating to an allegation of failure to exercise the requisite degree of professional skill and care on the part of a valuer or surveyor employed by the building society against which the complaint was made in relation to a report by him on the condition or value of any property where the report in question consisted of : ( a ) a written report prepared pursuant to section 13 of the Building Societies Act 1986 for a building society on the value of the land which was proposed as security for an advance to be made by the society and on any factors likely materially to affect its value made by a person who is competent to value and is not disqualified under section 13 from making a report on the land in question , ( b ) a written valuers ' report and valuation for mortgage prepared for the first plaintiff , ( c ) such a report prepared for the second plaintiff , ( d ) such a report prepared for the third plaintiff , ( e ) such a report prepared for the fourth plaintiff , ( f ) a house buyer 's report and valuation prepared by a chartered surveyor subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors , ( g ) a flat buyer 's report and valuation prepared by a chartered surveyor , ( h ) a home buyer 's standard valuation and survey report prepared by an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard terms of engagement of the Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers , ( i ) a written report known as a ‘ home purchase report ’ prepared by a chartered surveyor or an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the second plaintiff , ( j ) a written report known as a ‘ house buyer 's report ’ prepared by a chartered surveyor or an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the third plaintiff , or ( k ) a structural survey report . |
| 27 | Tonight he was not prepared to rape or ravish . |
| 28 | Pope Clement , however , was not inclined to agree and that occurred at a time when the people of England were annoyed at the imposition of heavy taxation by the Cardinal Morton , also Cardinal Wolsey . |
| 29 | Mr Reynolds was not able to eat or drink and fluids were therefore administered through the central venous and intravenous lines which had been inserted in theatre . |
| 30 | Exercise , on a farm , was not hard to find and Mary 's daily round included flitting up and down slopes sheer enough to grip an unaccustomed calf with solid pain for a week . |