Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the basic broad principles of the hierarchy are observable from its inception , probably toward the end of the fifteenth century , it was only gradually that it became elaborated ; and it was only with elaboration that the hierarchy tended gradually to become more rigid and to exert an increasing influence on the attitudes both of the ulema toward their own aspirations and of the people toward the ulema . |
| 2 | Although I 'd followed the progress of the King trial in the papers , it was only then that it began to hit home what a symbol he had become for the suppressed majority of my city . |
| 3 | The brief moment of semi-unity in Spain was over almost before it had begun . |
| 4 | I was just there when it started . ’ |
| 5 | The reason why absenteeism was non-existent on Thursdays was not just because it happened to be pay day . |
| 6 | The strength of the DCAC was not simply that it had the backing of the existing leadership of anti-Unionist opinion in Derry , but also that it succeeded in attracting new people who had not previously been involved in any kind of political activity but who found unsuspected reservoirs of energy and initiative . |
| 7 | Please remember when you are describing something that I was not there when it happened . |
| 8 | I think — I hope — that in a sense the relief of having a young assistant was not only that it helped his work , but that he also welcomed the presence of a younger doctor with more up-to-date medical knowledge . |
| 9 | But that was not enough when it came to the Maastricht debate . |
| 10 | A couple of days after starting this diet , Jamie 's crying was noticeably less and it became easier to get him to sleep each evening . |
| 11 | All colour had faded from the sky : and although the big board by the gate creaked slightly in the night wind ( as though to insist that it had not disappeared in the darkness , but was still firmly where it had been put ) , there was no passer-by to read the sharp , hard letters that cut straight as black knives across its white surface . |
| 12 | It was n't just that it looked so out of place hanging against the speckled mystery of clean , deep space . |
| 13 | The o , the Mark Hall only Mark Hall was n't there because it had been previously burnt down . |
| 14 | Looking around the bedroom , she saw that it was almost exactly as it had been in the photograph , although now there was a book open and face downwards on the patchwork quilt . |
| 15 | He gave her a child every year , but was never there when it came into the world . |