Example sentences of "it was [adv] [adj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was equally important to ensure that all would-be courtiers studied music , which in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries included ali the arts and muses . |
| 2 | It was not , as has been suggested , the popularity of the style among competitors which forced the judges to award a preponderance of prizes to designs in this style , as an examination of Clarke 's catalogue and the lists in various journals shows that out of the wide variety of stylistic appellations , it was largely those described as French Renaissance which were awarded prizes . |
| 3 | At first it was even hard to tell whether or not she could hear , so unused were her senses . |
| 4 | It was even acceptable to chant or recite a verse or two in public if the young mirza had ‘ beauty and a good voice ’ ; but he should not do so too often or at length for fear — heaven forbid — that he be mistaken for a professional poet or singer . |
| 5 | It was also surprising to hear that so many found it possible to stick to this diet when normally they found themselves lacking in the willpower department . |
| 6 | It was also ridiculous to think that the stranger Edna had described was Freddie Nash . |
| 7 | It was also necessary to fabricate and fit a new rotating cowl to replace the louvred terminal which was missing from the apex of the south-east roundel . |
| 8 | It was also possible to argue that the size of armies must be limited by the capacity of society to maintain them : Montesquieu believed that a ruler could hardly afford to have more than one per cent of his subjects under arms simultaneously , and other writers put the proportion still lower . |
| 9 | It was also important to establish whether adults would use deductive markers in these contexts , and so a written version of the tasks was given to a group of undergraduates . |
| 10 | At this stage , it was also important to establish that the best results would be achieved if a critical and constructive approach was adopted . |
| 11 | It was also important to ensure that the money was well spent . |
| 12 | It was also important to ensure that Mr Reynolds was fit to undergo surgery and to prepare him both physically and psychologically for the operation . |
| 13 | It was also depressing to realize that yet another member of the staffroom of the Islamic Boys ' Independent Wimbledon Day School was barking mad . |
| 14 | It was also entitled to ensure that the GP who made the referral understood the implications of his decision . |
| 15 | In Leicester the Council got a Nonconformist chaplain for the workhouse and it was also able to ensure that the new public cemetery would be ‘ unsectarian ’ , that is , without an Anglican Chapel . |
| 16 | It was also interesting to note that the 1984 ‘ Brown Book ’ , produced yearly by the Department of Energy to review ‘ Development of the Oil and Gas Resources of the United Kingdom ’ , increased its estimate of ‘ remaining recoverable oil reserves ’ in the UK North Sea from 1220–4220 million tonnes at the end of 1982 , to 1410–5280 million tonnes at the end of 1983 . |
| 17 | Jarvis 's money brought him in a tiny income , on which it was just possible to subsist if he walked everywhere , never went to the cinema , ate anything nice , smoked , drank , bought new clothes nor used the phone . |
| 18 | It was just interesting to do and , you know , the questions they asked |
| 19 | She caught herself wondering whether it mattered if Pascoe had done it , whether it was invariably wrong to kill when a murder meant removing a menace . |
| 20 | By 1857 when Agassiz 's Essay on Classification appeared , as an introduction to a never-completed work on the natural history of the USA , it was already difficult to believe that Noah 's flood had really been a world-wide catastrophe with animals surviving two by two ; indeed Agassiz 's work on ice ages had involved reinterpretation of data that seemed evidence of the Flood . |
| 21 | It was most unsettling to discover that that was not the case . |
| 22 | Morse had a bit of money — he knew that , but the chief 's generosity , certainly in pubs , was seldom in evidence ; and it was most reassuring to find that there was an unexpectedly munificent side to the chief inspector 's soul . |
| 23 | She knew from her first meeting with him that he could n't always understand written languages the way he could speech , but if he visited Earth so often it was probably reasonable to assume that he would know languages other than English . |
| 24 | Apart from this it was probably true to say that the Truman Administration , well before it came to an end , had run out of ideas on Vietnam ; and it is probably true also that at the end of 1951 the weight of the French problem was beginning to shift : not so much how the US could get France out but how to keep her in . |
| 25 | As a temperance organisation it was particularly stunned to discover that some its missing money has been invested in drinking and gambling establishments . |
| 26 | It was particularly hard to bear when one was a child . |
| 27 | It was desperately hard to accept that this serene man , so calm , so dignified , such a majestic cricketer , could have been taken in this way . |
| 28 | It was vaguely insulting to know that he treated her as casually as he would have treated any stranger with whom he found himself forced to share a house . |
| 29 | It was just that it was intriguingly difficult to tell if he was issuing blunt ultimatums to a financial contact , or responding to some emotional problem at the other end of the line … |
| 30 | For John , on his endless round of visits to cuttings and embankments , tunnels and bridges , it was sometimes hard to believe that all this buzz of well-organized industry could be brought to a halt by the movement of bits of paper in the far-off City . |