Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [verb] that it was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The critics and defeated rivals of Anca Petrescu in the competition for the Comrade 's patronage insist that it was her idea to resolve the question of the approach road to the Civic Centre by the most dramatic and destructive means . |
| 2 | The conclusion to Dahl 's study stressed that it was impossible to identify a single powerful elite which dominated policy-making in each of the three areas , as Hunter 's elitist model had suggested . |
| 3 | For example , a close reading of the entry ‘ Maître de musique ’ in Meude-Monpas 's dictionary suggests that it was written with the art of Pierre-Montan Berton ( 1727-80 ) in mind : the article concludes with a eulogy to him as ‘ a sovereign master of the orchestra ’ , i.e. at the Paris Opera from 1755 . |
| 4 | On Jan. 24 President Hosni Mubarak told the People 's Assembly said that it was Saddam Hussein 's " occupation of an independent , sovereign Arab country " which had " caused all that is happening now " . |
| 5 | Although it does n't quite tie-up with the listing of Sugar 's operations , Albert Wallace 's logbook states that it was Sugar 's ‘ 130th Operation ’ . |
| 6 | If the boy had a ‘ gift ’ then it was everyone 's duty to see that it was not wasted . |
| 7 | Thorne 's report establishes that it was the miners who ‘ called ’ the confrontation . |