Example sentences of "and [art] [noun] that it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he thought he knew a thing or two about muscles , and the knowledge that it was only a couple of big muscles that were keeping him alive was not comforting . |
| 2 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 3 | For instance , the single entry in the English annals of the monastery between 1100 and 1109 records the inspection of the body of St Elphege in 1105 , and the discovery that it was incorrupt . |
| 4 | Recently , this full-length terracotta Madonna 127 cm high , was sent for conservation and the discovery that it was by the great sculptor Jacopo della Quercia was made , which has caused all the more excitement because it was completely unexpected . |
| 5 | ( Indeed he was pardoned under that name , and the discovery that it was a false one provided an additional pretext for its revocation . ) |
| 6 | In fact this put severe restrictions on the committee 's deliberations , and the chairman repeatedly had to advise counsel for both the GMC and the defence that it was not their function to comment on the relative merits or otherwise of alternative forms of medicine . |
| 7 | And the night that it was over we met in our quarters , we poured a drink and we stood there and looked at each other and he said well , we made it . |
| 8 | He arranged as quickly as possible for the vault under the House of Lords to be vacated by its tenant and the news that it was available for renting to be passed to the associates of Guy Fawkes . |
| 9 | The Conservative Party was thus preserved intact , and the fact that it was able to provide a rallying point for the middle and lower middle classes was arguably one of the main bulwarks against political extremism in the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 10 | The size of the city and the fact that it was so spread out , too , was a factor in its favour , it being almost impossible to flatten London with the HE and incendiary bombs of those days . |
| 11 | Its size , and the fact that it was printed on the Pitman Press at Bath , lead one to compare it with the ornithological publications of Poyser which it closely resembles . |
| 12 | The romantic charm of so much Sussex folklore has concealed the basic violence of smuggling , its support through many levels of society , and the fact that it was possibly the largest single local industry after agriculture until the repeal of protective tariffs in the 1840s killed the need for it almost immediately . |
| 13 | It was not weak , cowardly or treacherous , it told its assailants and for proof pointed to the arrests and the fact that it was not releasing any of the men . |
| 14 | The significance of the BF therefore was to be in its administration and the fact that it was the first British organization to link itself specifically with Mussolini 's new form of politics , in however diluted a form . |
| 15 | In spite of this , and the fact that it was so large , he recognised it immediately as a coelacanth . |
| 16 | Its size , elaborate smithing and the fact that it was made of silver meant that the offering must have been exceedingly valuable . |
| 17 | He had closed businesses down before , but never so publicly , and the fact that it was a project so dear to his heart wounded even more . |
| 18 | Clearly Soviet oil was an attractive buy for the Cubans : Che Guevara stated that the landed price of Soviet crude was 33 per cent lower than the price at which the majors imported oil to Cuba from their Venezuelan subsidiaries , and the fact that it was a barter deal enabled the revolution to conserve its dwindling hard-currency reserves . |
| 19 | And the fact that it was divvied up in the pubs I |
| 20 | Both the smallness of his fine of £2,000 and the fact that it was later remitted in return for a loan of £10,000 to James I provide early testimony of his value to the government . |
| 21 | There was something in his face that had no right to be there , and the fact that it was so unexpected made it hard for her to recognise ; but recognise it she did , and its presence bewildered her . |
| 22 | Some property damage was foreseeable and the fact that it was more extensive than might have been foreseen did not matter . |
| 23 | Introduced in the Sixties , it was noted for its strong alloy shaft and the fact that it was safer to don a truss before swinging it too energetically . |
| 24 | An Old Firm game played on the Saturday before an international match is clearly not an aid to Roxburgh and the fact that it was the 34th match of a gruelling 44-game championship did not escape his attention , either . |
| 25 | Well and the fact that it was just their garden , and as far as I can make out it was simply that garden , it would suggest that she 's fallen out with some kids or something like that or somebody and yeah . |
| 26 | He gave the bad leg a gentle kick , to be rewarded with an agonized moan and the information that it was certainly broken , probably in two or three places . |
| 27 | There is no doubt that strip poker is a card game , and no doubt that it was not the sort of card game intended by the instructions given . |