Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] and it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " You were upset and it seemed simpler to see you both together , but I will now give you information about all the bequests and tell you what I have arranged about probate and death duties . " |
| 2 | Knee and hip joints were creaking and it seemed that the prophecy made by doctors forty years before , that one day my legs and hips — the war left me with a short , stiff left leg — would really begin to seize up , was about to come true . |
| 3 | The British public were cautious and it took the Second World War to inspire a new , and more forward-looking , attitude to the problem of dealing with the economy and unemployment . |
| 4 | We done it for a laugh and because we were bored and it got out of hand . |
| 5 | Another reason for the lack of interest in PEPS is that its benefits were predictable and it tied up clients ' money for at least a year . |
| 6 | The physical demands were enormous and it says much for the exceptional fitness of both crews that neither wilted . |
| 7 | Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive Scott McNealy claimed the move would deliver to Solaris the three volume chips likely to survive : PowerPC , Sparc and Intel as SunSoft resources are moved off the new Intel Corp version , he said , they would be dedicated on the PowerPC — McNealy said this would be ready in late 1993 and SunSoft president Ed Zander immediately stepped up to contradict him , saying the date would more likely be early next year ; few details were available and it remains to be seen who would use it and how it will be sold . |
| 8 | Her curtains were open and it went across her window in the sky . |
| 9 | Of all these , Augmentations was probably the most remarkable , since its accounting processes were modern and it used a more rational system for collecting revenues than did the old Exchequer . |
| 10 | By opening night , they were ecstatic and it has to be said , the brightest , the best , and the most appreciative audience we 'd played to . |
| 11 | I looked out of the window and it was the back garden of Dr Jane 's house , and when Mrs Pitt came up to serve me and I complained Dr Jane laughed , and it was really Dr Jane all the time and the whole place was horrible and dark and dirty and when I got outside to follow my friends the ones who were usually in the dream there were n't any people and we were in a sort of studio and the village and the inn it was so obvious now I felt a fool for going in and sitting down and expecting to be served was the crudest sort of cardboard stage set like a model for a child 's history lesson and the colours were horrible and it smelt of a sort of horrible glue and — — |
| 12 | A reassessment of his career was due and it comes as a new monograph by Tim Hilton ( £30 , Lund Humphries ) and an exhibition which opened at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park at the end of last month ( to 31 August ) and will be shown at The Art Warehouse in London in the autumn . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , this was short-lived and it folded in 1884 having been torn asunder by internal dissensions , but before its collapse it inaugurated two important undertakings , the Stockton-on-Tees Mission and the Ayrshire Mission to the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 14 | My voice was high and it shook and I did n't convince even myself . |
| 15 | If the actor was real then the film was real and it worked . |
| 16 | The theory was a good scientific theory , in the sense described in Chapter 1 : it was simple and it made definite predictions that could be tested by observation . |
| 17 | Well it was long and it was straggly and it got on my nerves ! |
| 18 | That 's a bit like that thingy but it was bald and it 'd got a bad , ever such a bad |
| 19 | Where he exceeded expectation and all precedents was in making the ban total , but this clearly was just the element which was negotiable and it had the effect of extending the king 's patronage of both church and laity . |
| 20 | Regeneration of energy back into the industry was healthy and it created jobs for young people in the industry ’ . |
| 21 | Not only did the BBC believe that it alone knew what was good for the audience , its pretence of impartiality was bogus and it absorbed and suffocated with banalities all differences of opinion : |
| 22 | His voice was deep and it sent her pulses racing . |
| 23 | The fit of this brace was firm and it felt comfortable , despite the fact that it is an off-the-shelf model ( its older brother , the CTI , is custom-fit ) and I found I was able to ski with some confidence in my otherwise highly unstable knee . |
| 24 | The whole audience was astounded and it did n't go down very well . |
| 25 | It was new to them , but they did not need to be told that it was good and it raised their spirits . |
| 26 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
| 27 | After previous days ' lovely weather , disappointed that visibility was poor and it rained most of the time . |
| 28 | The descent was nerve-racking and it reminded me of the slow , queasy way light planes come in to land in Himalayan valleys . |
| 29 | Pressure for this was considerable and it appeared to have popular support . |
| 30 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |