Sentence examples for it were a formality from inspiring English sources
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.
"It's a formality," Williams said.
"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 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.
Though it was a formality, the central bank officially endorsed Mario Draghi, governor of the Bank of Italy, as successor to Mr. Trichet, whose eight-year term expires at the end of October.
