Sentence examples for it was a formality from inspiring English sources
"People thought it was a formality but I was worried before we kicked a ball.
It was a formality in the end but a huge weight off our minds when the order was granted.
Although her last two midwives were affiliated with a hospital in the Bronx, she said, it was a formality.
A party convention here allows members to ratify the pick, but analysts said it was a formality.
It was a formality, preceding the formality of the state-by-state roll call that the party's rules have not got around to eliminating.
There, detectives put him in handcuffs - "They said it was a formality," he said -- and took him in front of a judge who said the tickets were so old that the issuing officer had retired.
"It's a formality," Williams said.
It is a formality, and Mr. Romney will still deliver his acceptance speech on Thursday evening, but the change is significant and an effort to keep the convention focused tightly on Mr. Romney.
In a 10-minute address to reporters, Knight expressed his undivided interest in the job, sounding as if it were a formality that he would come work with his friend, the Texas Tech athletic director, Gerald Myers.
But it is a formality observed by the Argentina Football Association and this week in Buenos Aires, the 2012 Clausura tournament was controversially named Crucero General Belgrano – after the naval ship sunk by British torpedoes in the Falklands conflict.
