Example sentences of "was it [adv] [adj] for " in BNC.

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1 But in no part of Europe was it wholly exceptional for an eleventh-century bishop to have children .
2 Why was it so impossible for him to make their relationship more secure ?
3 Why was it so easy for master printers to recruit girls ?
4 He knew that if he had had the courage he would have vowed then and there never to go back , but such courage was not his yet , but was it so bad for a man who could make no sense of how he had come to be where he was to rest his fate on the unknown course of an eagle 's life ?
5 Not only was it more convenient for his financial deals in international negotiations to be done there , but he needed more dancers .
6 Was it more common for at least one or two adult relatives to be added to a household in addition to a nuclear family unit ?
7 But was it legally correct for the police to breathalyse a driver in his own home ?
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