Example sentences of "[noun] it was [adj] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using this criterion it was possible to show that the damper inertia should be four times the total motor/load inertia ( including the housing inertia ) : and the viscous fluid constant should then be related to the stiffness and damper inertia by : If a well-matched damper is coupled into the system the improvement in the single-step response is achieved with a shorter settling time and lower overshoot , as shown in Fig. 4.13 . |
| 2 | In some areas it was necessary to assume that adaptation of the organism to its environment is crucial both for survival and for long-term evolution . |
| 3 | Watching the two of them play together during the session it was easy to see that Tom was active and restless while Sue would sit quietly and watch what was happening . |
| 4 | Although the Unity Manifesto had been signed by Pollitt , butt , Gallacher , Tom Mann and Arthur Horner on behalf of the Communists it was essential to stress that there was no intention of setting up a rival to the Labour Party . |
| 5 | The district health authority received an unusual ECR and in those circumstances it was entitled to ensure that the use of resources involved in that decision was justified . |
| 6 | Max Caulfield , in his biography of Mrs Whitehouse , sums up the argument in one sentence , saying ‘ as to the purpose of all this frenzy it was easy to explain that the forces of revolution , unable to achieve their objectives at the ballot box or , because of the existence of the nuclear bomb , by full-scale war , were endeavouring to encourage moral decay ’ . |
| 7 | Looking now at her plump , well-kept hands , two heavy diamond rings worn above her unexpectedly old-fashioned wedding band it was hard to believe that her mother was a work-bent Ukrainian peasant who still wore a black kerchief over her hair and spoke little English . |
| 8 | Thus , even though the cloud tops were known not to consist of water it was possible to believe that lower down they were of water and that deeper still lay a warm ocean-covered surface . |
| 9 | In the night it was difficult to know that she was there , but for the wall of the screen . |
| 10 | In one case it was able to show that tracks of information were being written too closely together , thus partially erasing each other . |
| 11 | It was touching to me to see how she would sometimes act helpless because she loved him being , as he often was , masterful with her , as well as tender ; and for his part it was easy to see that he thought her a wonderful woman and admired every inch of her . |
| 12 | Of course it was nice to know that some of our things were made from the wool from our own sheep . |
| 13 | Without adequate infra-structure it was difficult to ensure that , for example , two small purple dresses went to Harrods and four large green smocks to Liberty 's . |
| 14 | In this way it was possible to ensure that all three transducers were located in the supradiaphragmatic part of the transposed colon . |
| 15 | In this context it was interesting to observe that the school which imposed a more summative , norm-referenced , approach to assessment on its staff , was also the one in which the least amount of innovation appeared to be taking place in this area , whereas the school with the most formative approach to assessment and reporting appeared to be more open to new ideas and methods . |
| 16 | At one time it was fashionable to argue that Darwinism destroyed the traditional belief that Nature had been created by a wise and benevolent God , thereby ushering in an age of rampant materialism . |
| 17 | For a time it was popular to suggest that reversals in the earth 's magnetic field , which we know to have been sudden , may have temporarily broken down the protective shield provided by the van Allen Belt against cosmic rays and so stimulated evolution by way of genetic mutation . |
| 18 | and then I had to work with these people and I knew that that was the kind of way that they were operating and I had to teach them by the way I worked but in fact it was okay to admit that we do make mistakes . |