Example sentences of "was [adj] and it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | My voice was high and it shook and I did n't convince even myself . |
| 4 | If the actor was real then the film was real and it worked . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Well it was long and it was straggly and it got on my nerves ! |
| 7 | That 's a bit like that thingy but it was bald and it 'd got a bad , ever such a bad |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Regeneration of energy back into the industry was healthy and it created jobs for young people in the industry ’ . |
| 10 | 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 : |
| 11 | His voice was deep and it sent her pulses racing . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The whole audience was astounded and it did n't go down very well . |
| 14 | It was new to them , but they did not need to be told that it was good and it raised their spirits . |
| 15 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
| 16 | After previous days ' lovely weather , disappointed that visibility was poor and it rained most of the time . |
| 17 | The descent was nerve-racking and it reminded me of the slow , queasy way light planes come in to land in Himalayan valleys . |
| 18 | Pressure for this was considerable and it appeared to have popular support . |
| 19 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
| 20 | But fortunately the traffic was heavy and it took ages to reach Bethnal Green . |
| 21 | Its walls were of pinkwashed cob , its roof was thatched and it stood on its own . |
| 22 | I was happy and it showed in my skating . |
| 23 | I realized I was hungry and it did n't matter . |
| 24 | I had a ‘ Dutch boy ’ haircut when I was 13 and it made my face look really huge . |
| 25 | After two more attempts he tried the door ; it was unsecured and it opened into a little hall from which stairs led upwards . |
| 26 | It was his nickname for her ; he had started calling her that when she was small and it had stuck even though she was now a respectable five-feet-seven . |
| 27 | Unless it was small and it 's grown ! |
| 28 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 29 | Its mouth was open and it had an expression on its face of someone who is going to have a lot of difficulty explaining what they have just seen , especially to themselves . |
| 30 | Its mouth was open and it seemed to be grinning at him . |