Example sentences of "he [verb] that it was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pale blue light puzzled him for a moment , until he realised that it was the Calor gas stove in the galley . |
| 2 | Hobhouse 's evolutionary method was , however , also reminiscent of Comte since he argued that it was the growing domination of mind over the conditions of life that enables us to appreciate the importance of the collective framework of society . |
| 3 | He was certainly enjoying life more than ever before , and when Eva finally announced that we were moving to London he admitted that it was the right thing to do . |
| 4 | He concludes that it was the consequence of a political style — a belief that ‘ Firmness , the resolute approach , is considered essential even in defence of the indefensible ; consensual , rational approaches to decision-making , tedious incrementalisms are regarded as excuses for doing nothing . |
| 5 | He says that it was the right decision . |
| 6 | The Unitarian minister and editor Edwin Chapman underlined that desire to overcome separation when in his thanksgiving sermon on Emancipation Day in 1834 he proclaimed that it was the Christian principle evinced by all the sects and parties which had brought on the victory . |
| 7 | He believed that it was the official Opposition and had an undoubted right to take its place as the next in line . |
| 8 | He replied that it was the Reporter 's job to ask for one . |
| 9 | He repeated that it was the right of the pope to inspect and crown , absolved all from their oaths to Philip and again exhorted all the princes to adhere or go over to the support of Otto . |
| 10 | Mr Trimble told the Speaker he appreciated that it was the normal practice not to have immediate statements on specific terrorist incidents ‘ because that amplifies the terror ’ . |
| 11 | He was not particularly pleased with the result , however : when The Family Reunion had been televised two years before , he confessed that it was the first television play he had seen and that he found the medium deficient . |
| 12 | It had always astonished him that his children were not afraid of her ; now he saw that it was the gulf of the generation between them . |
| 13 | Although Joe had never tried to analyse their relationship , inside himself he knew that it was the boy 's vicious streak that attracted him . |
| 14 | As both schools had a similar catchment area , he postulated that it was the schools themselves that made the difference between their pupils ' behaviour . |
| 15 | Suppose he learned that it was the Regent himself who was there . |
| 16 | He said that it was the responsibility of the government to propose a modification of the election calendar , adopted by the country 's national conference in June [ see p. 38277-78 ] . |
| 17 | Only when they actually got to know each other had he discovered that it was the idea of loving her that he had fallen for and not the girl herself . |
| 18 | Especially if he spotted that it was the third time , for Miss Postlethwaite and me . ’ |
| 19 | Certainly Polydore Vergil seems to have fallen victim to his own condensed chronology when he argues that it was the events at Stony Stratford which caused Hastings to mistrust Gloucester and so led to Hastings ' opposition and execution . |
| 20 | Certainly Polydore Vergil seems to have fallen victim to his own condensed chronology when he argues that it was the events at Stony Stratford which caused Hastings to mistrust Gloucester and so led to Hastings ' opposition and execution . |
| 21 | When someone says ‘ It was the knave of hearts who stole the tarts ’ I agree with him or not according as to whether I believe that it was the knave of hearts who stole them , not according as to whether I believe that he believes that it was the knave . |
| 22 | He explained that it was the delighted reaction of his bodyguards upstairs to the successive Tory victories . |