Example sentences of "[pers pn] was those " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I look back on the people who have led me very well in the past , it was those who were able to create and sustain just such a sense of challenge . |
| 2 | ‘ And I thought it was those rats or my silly old brain and all the time it was you , young man . ’ |
| 3 | At any rate , so far as Zuwaya are concerned , it was those men who were fifty to sixty years old in 1979 who had created in the previous three decades the marked differences in wealth which did exist . |
| 4 | It was those who were admitted in the year before they died who were perceived as having a relatively poor quality of life in that year . |
| 5 | It was those sessions which won the band initial recognition and a recording contract . |
| 6 | It was those two who invariably forgot to comply with Judith 's requests , while John and I usually showed up with the items , literally bringing home the bacon . |
| 7 | It was those who suffered the isolation of the front-line patrol who demanded changes . |
| 8 | And it was those waves which were to carry him , steadily and inexorably , to a far-distant grave . |
| 9 | It was those at the bottom of the social pile , without contacts or Western goods to deal with , who had to submit to the ordeal . |
| 10 | For it was those two , with a little help from Nick Brown , Frew McMillan and John Black , who entertained the boisterous crowd with an exhibition set officially won by Brown and Keegan , 7–5 ! |
| 11 | Moreover , it was those that were most likely to suffer long periods of unemployment and non-employment and for whom early retirement was a realistic option , i.e. those aged 60–64 , who were most likely to say that it would be very effective in dealing with unemployment : 46 per cent , compared with 34 per cent of the 55–59 age-group and 30 per cent of those under 30 . |
| 12 | The After Redundancy study suggests that it was those on the demand side and , in the first instance , the redundancy itself . |
| 13 | Although not all authorities responded ( and it was those with strong Conservative majorities which failed to do so ) , the effect of the circular was dramatic . |
| 14 | On the river 's northern bank a troop of black-uniformed Prussian Hussars shadowed the Red Lancers , and it was those Hussars who , rounding a bend in the Sambre Valley , discovered a party of French engineers floating a pontoon bridge off the southern bank . |
| 15 | Allen was to play an important role in the story of the BUF , in general it was those who came to fascism from outside politics who were to prove the most important elements in the organization . |
| 16 | However , according to our first prevalence study , it was those areas characterised by the greatest levels of social deprivation that contained both the largest absolute numbers of users and the highest proportions of users . |
| 17 | Two hundred years ago it was those recipes listed under the heading of creams which were much more like the fruit fools of today . |
| 18 | Conditions such as those were quite common to many thousands of people and I think it was those conditions which helped to formulate and develop my political thinking . |
| 19 | And it was those of liberal and moderate socialist leaders , men like Miliukov and Kerensky , which exerted greatest influence . |
| 20 | At the same time , it was those with the highest level of education who were best able to draw from particular grievances — against their own foreman or management — a more general analysis of the system which oppressed them . |
| 21 | It was those with the highest levels of skill in whom the capacity for independent thought and initiative was most developed . |
| 22 | It was those with the deepest roots in industry and the urban environment who developed the strongest sense of the workers as a class apart with its own distinctive interests and goals . |
| 23 | Secretly Stella thought Mary Deare resembled a monkey rather than a bird ; it was those opaque , unblinking eyes . |
| 24 | It was those |
| 25 | It was those clever , smug Royal sorcerers , who wove the spell of punishment . ’ |
| 26 | Despite our spectacular surroundings it was those people who made our trek the memorable experience it was . |
| 27 | There would always be that fear that it a similar incident might happen and er and that er it was those who were asleep at the time who were unlucky enough not to survive . |
| 28 | You see , it was those eyes , so blue in a face so dark , one of God 's most beautiful mixtures . |
| 29 | But it was those two who ruled the roost . |
| 30 | It was those factors as much as individuals ' ability which won the league 2 seasons ago . |