Example sentences of "[noun] and [noun] that it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Years and heredity within the Anglican Church ( his father had been a colonial bishop ) had so formed his manners and speech that it was sometimes thought so . |
| 2 | As a result they push it beyond its design — a bit like trying to fly a plane at twice the speed and height that it was designed for . |
| 3 | In May 1937 street fighting had broken out in Barcelona and was used as an excuse for outlawing the " Trotskyist " POUM , not in fact Trotskyist but a breakaway from the Spanish Communist Party in close touch with the British ILP.6 By 1938 the Communist Party had so entrenched itself through the use of Soviet aid and advisers that it was able to force the resignation of Prime Minister Prieto and to improve its position in the Cabinet . |
| 4 | In Spain this was particularly serious since the age of major railway building in the mid-nineteenth century preceded industrialization and the massive shifts in population and traffic that it was to bring , especially from the 1940s . |
| 5 | There had been considerable speculation and concern that it was about to do so . |
| 6 | We heard stories of such sadness and desolation that it was difficult not to be moved to tears . |
| 7 | The state of English teaching in schools had obviously , by the late 1980s , become a cause of such radical complaint and discontent that it was not surprising to find a committee of inquiry set up to look into its proper aims and methods ( The Kingham Committee , 1987 ) . |
| 8 | He was so quick to forgive personal insults and injuries that it was said that you only had to injure him in order to have him as a friend for life . |
| 9 | Towards midnight she went to tell Henrietta and Samantha that it was far past their bedtime . |
| 10 | Believing still that the catastrophe had been caused by other people and the actions of other people , believing it as firmly as Kate believed that it had been caused by devils and Quentin that it was part of God 's mystery , Lavinia saw a spark in the gloom . |
| 11 | Among a series of films designed to cash in on the success of Hitchcock 's Psycho ( 1960 ) , for example , was Seth Holt 's The Nanny ( 1965 ) , made with the visual flair of his earlier Hammer picture , Taste of Fear ( 1961 ) , and telling the powerful tale of two sisters , both dependent in their own way on the woman who brought them up , who pay no attention to the declarations of their son and nephew that it was nanny who killed his sister and now wants to kill him . |