Example sentences of "it was the [det] [noun] which " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the latter view which was accepted both by Nolan J. at first instance , and by Ralph Gibson L.J . |
| 2 | It was the same story which brought about the downfall of another huge yard — Tyne — in October 1989 . |
| 3 | It was the licensing system and licensing controls , after all , which helped to foster Britain 's peculiar ‘ brewery tie ’ and concentrate pub ownership in the hands of the brewers in the first place ; and it was the same system which connived at and partly encouraged the modern contagion of open-plan pub designs . |
| 4 | It was the Mau Mau conflict itself which forced the government to recognize the need to increase the productivity of the Kikuyu areas , and it was the same conflict which facilitated the means . |
| 5 | Gladstone saw nationalism in this light , and it was the same impulse which led , for example , Menotti Garibaldi , the great hero 's son , to try to raise an Italian legion to help Arabi Pasha in Egypt . |