Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [conj] it [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | But then , Bella 's home-help came out of the bungalow and it was no use any more trying to pretend that it was n't happening … . |
2 | It was no doubt less advanced in its industrial organisation than Lancashire , where the last of the surviving handloom weavers were absorbed into other employment in the 1850s , but it would be unrealistic to claim that it was not industrial . |
3 | Nor is it sensible to wish that it were otherwise , since raptures , aesthetic , erotic , intellectual , mystical , in which the spontaneous floods the whole of consciousness , can lift us to heights of awareness beyond our ordinary capacities . |
4 | Whether or not that was the intent of the regulations — and I am willing to believe that it was not the Minister 's intent — that has been the net effect of the way in which the three-week period was cut off due to the way that the regulations were tabled . |
5 | It is easy to forget that it was here , millions of years ago , that our forebears first appeared . |
6 | Pipeline was easy to judge since it was basically a one-manoeuvre event : what everyone was after was the tube . |
7 | She had the joint X-rayed on Wednesday night and was somewhat relieved to learn that it was merely a bad case of bruising . |
8 | The family historian who visits such a place would find it hard to believe that it was once the home of a mere waggoner if he had not seen old photographs that show its condition before the First World War . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Second , sealing the border with Serbia would be unlikely to work if it were not accompanied by the simultaneous sealing of the border with Croatia : the Bosnian Serbs , already talking to the Croats about a confederal division of the spoils ( see page 46 ) , would get their supplies from Croatia , and the Croats — never mind their signatures on the Vance-Owen plan — would anyway continue their military campaign for territory . |
11 | It was important to remember that it was only a few hours since Floy and Snodgrass had left Tara , the Shining Citadel , the Bright Palace , and that there was not very much that could have gone wrong for them in those few hours . |
12 | ‘ We have been given reassurances that the water is safe to drink and it was just the long hot summer but we are not so sure . |
13 | That night he was unable to sleep and it was only after taking aspirin tablets that he was able to get any rest . |
14 | It is important to understand that it was essentially a political war . |
15 | She 's one of several who 'd be unable to study if it were n't for the nursery . |
16 | Tamar looked down at the child , scarcely able to believe that it was all over so quickly . |
17 | It is important to note that it was only the statements of this man and his wife which contained any evidence of Paisley 's knowledge of the crimes , and the juries determined that they were not trustworthy witnesses . |
18 | The Chairman welcomed the members present at the meeting and was pleased to see that it was well attended . |
19 | Smoke was curling up from the chimney , but Virginia was thankful to note that it was n't coloured . |
20 | It must have been about the turn of the century the er Times newspaper ran a competition and it wa , the competition was a very simple one , difficult to answer but it was very simply put it was asking for people to write in letters and essays , and features and articles on , what was wrong with the world . |
21 | As he examined the clutter , however , Rostov was inclined to wonder if it was entirely the result of essential additions to survey gear . |
22 | The second side-effect — and this is n't necessarily a criticism — was that I found this guitar absolutely unbearable to play unless it was as near perfectly in tune as possible . |
23 | King John may have been willing to agree to anything , even the dismemberment of his kingdom , in order to ensure that he did not die in prison ; but , as Professor Fowler remarked , the treaty was ‘ so preposterous that it is difficult to believe that it was ever intended seriously ’ . |
24 | I shall not repeat what I said to the Government of India , but it is perfectly fair to say that it was well taken . |
25 | Once a man knows of his right it is more difficult to say that it was not reasonably practicable to give notice within a reasonable time . |
26 | A buyer who has taken the formal step of signing a document will therefore find it difficult to show that it was not a contractual document . |
27 | It had only been her bank book , and Edward had been quite right to say that it was not worth reading . |
28 | 14–16 ) was right to say that it was only with the Peloponnesian War that the real migration from country to city took place . |
29 | And I think they 're quite expensive to run but it was so nice we |
30 | Jim was keen to impress that it was not a scale model of anything but a real small narrow gauge locomotive in its own right . |