Example sentences of "[adv] it was [verb] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though when the meal was ended and they went outside it was to discover that it had begun to drizzle . |
| 2 | St Bartholomew 's church at Covenham was declining to the state of danger when a parish in California asked if they might have it and ship it stone by stone to the U.S.A. This caused much controversy for a while but finally it was decided that it should remain and be safely maintained on its original consecrated site . |
| 3 | The blast which had flung down the doors at the front had strangely left the windows intact , but when Pat arrived home it was decided that it would be better to leave Julia in the bed in the cellar . |
| 4 | So maybe it was fitting that it should begin here , at Nanking , where DeVore had first slipped the net . |
| 5 | Initially it was suggested that it was impossible , and that quasars were in fact relatively nearby objects , their large speeds of retreat arising because , perhaps , they were being spat out by our Galaxy in some unknown way . |
| 6 | The collection started last March when it was agreed that it would be a good idea to see if money could be raised from something which normally would be disposed of , benefiting nobody . |
| 7 | The T network is actually the star network considered in the context of direct currents at the end of section 3.2 where it was shown that it transforms into an equivalent delta network . |
| 8 | Until quite recently it was considered that it was the crust that attained equilibrium with respect to the mantle , but it is now known that isostatic adjustments also involve the rigid mantle forming the lower part of the lithosphere . |