Example sentences of "[conj] it was the [noun] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In power , it never occurred to him , just as it did not occur to Mr Gorbachev until it was too late , that it was the system itself that was rotten through and through . |
| 2 | Suppose he learned that it was the Regent himself who was there . |
| 3 | He would plead that the plugs had been planted by someone who bore a grudge against him , and the story would be quickly put round the plant that it was the foreman himself who had fixed it , to settle an old score . |
| 4 | As both schools had a similar catchment area , he postulated that it was the schools themselves that made the difference between their pupils ' behaviour . |
| 5 | As their investigation progressed , so did their conviction that it was the President himself who was at the heart of the deception . |
| 6 | Those who prefer the second view are , however , in this difficulty : that it was the Movement itself that took the decision to reduce its ambitions to the more narrowly ameliorative and unobjectionable . |
| 7 | An anxious young face disappeared from the window as their car drew up and parked under the dripping trees , but it was the Brigadier himself who appeared at the door to meet them . |
| 8 | Because it was the women themselves who were organizing it because they felt part of it they did n't see it as some sort of other people that were more politically motivated that than them giving them something to keep them out on strike , which by its very nature could could have been something that the people would have accepted for a while and then not accepted . |
| 9 | Apart from the household staffs , many of them must have stayed on since it was the houses themselves that were dissolved , not their economic base , the estates . |
| 10 | It was held that they could , as it was the tape itself which was the evidence at the trial ( rather than . |