Example sentences of "it was [adv] [adj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was equally important to ensure that all would-be courtiers studied music , which in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries included ali the arts and muses . |
| 2 | But , with the Government in turmoil and the crisis over the arms sales to Iraq adding to its troubles , it was n't difficult to see that Mr Lawrence was exactly where he wanted to be . |
| 3 | Just aft of the fire a small motorboat was still secured to its davits : it was n't difficult to guess that either the explosion or the fire had rendered it inoperable . |
| 4 | It was not surprising to learn that that was rather higher — 7 per cent . |
| 5 | It was not surprising to find that each part of the organisation had developed its own method of personnel operation and had created personnel systems to support these . |
| 6 | This overlooks the point that , since the decision of the House in Button and Swain it was not necessary to prove that the offence took place in public . |
| 7 | Merkur Island were not parties to any contract for the supply of towage services , so it was not possible to say that the purpose of the action was to prevent the supply of services between an employer who was party to the dispute ( Merkur Island ) and the employer under the contract of employment to which the secondary action related ( the tug owners ) . |
| 8 | The lawyer said that it was not possible to say that the young people had suffered any permanent effects as a result of their experience . |
| 9 | If peasants could get out of hand when the government was trying to raise a militia , it was not unreasonable to suppose that they would run amok on learning what the government meant by freedom . |
| 10 | She was much too busy darting glances at Alain and then at Jenna and it was not hard to see that she had detected a certain restraint in the atmosphere . |
| 11 | And indeed , it did hold its stout pectoral fins away from the sides of its body , and it was not hard to imagine that had it been vigorous , it could have used them to help it move over the rocky sea floor of its true environment . |
| 12 | It was not fair to say that he– parents had had no time for her or for Joe ; all four of the family had worked together , and , as the settlement grew , they had enjoyed churchgoing and Easters and Christmases with their neighbours . |
| 13 | The plain shimmered below a cloudless sky , and it was not unusual to hear that some contadino ( peasant ) who had been working in the afternoon heat had been taken to the local hospital suffering or even dying from sunstroke . |
| 14 | In cases where there was more than one accused , it was not unusual to discover that some evidence was admissible against one accused only and not the other accused . |
| 15 | It was not difficult to detect that his government was anxious and , if this word could ever be used about the placid Sir Alec Douglas-Home , was passionately anxious to obtain an agreement , just as Harold Wilson previously had had the same anxiety . |
| 16 | It was not difficult to spot that some of the products in our portfolio could never again be profitable . |
| 17 | Eric 's name was not given but it was not difficult to guess that it was him . |
| 18 | The first of those from Viola was addressed in fact to ‘ Dear Walter and Hilda ’ , but it was not difficult to guess that it was intended primarily for Walter 's eyes . |
| 19 | It was also surprising to hear that so many found it possible to stick to this diet when normally they found themselves lacking in the willpower department . |
| 20 | It was also ridiculous to think that the stranger Edna had described was Freddie Nash . |
| 21 | It was also possible to argue that the size of armies must be limited by the capacity of society to maintain them : Montesquieu believed that a ruler could hardly afford to have more than one per cent of his subjects under arms simultaneously , and other writers put the proportion still lower . |
| 22 | At this stage , it was also important to establish that the best results would be achieved if a critical and constructive approach was adopted . |
| 23 | It was also important to ensure that the money was well spent . |
| 24 | It was also important to ensure that Mr Reynolds was fit to undergo surgery and to prepare him both physically and psychologically for the operation . |
| 25 | It was also depressing to realize that yet another member of the staffroom of the Islamic Boys ' Independent Wimbledon Day School was barking mad . |
| 26 | It was also entitled to ensure that the GP who made the referral understood the implications of his decision . |
| 27 | In Leicester the Council got a Nonconformist chaplain for the workhouse and it was also able to ensure that the new public cemetery would be ‘ unsectarian ’ , that is , without an Anglican Chapel . |
| 28 | It was also interesting to note that the 1984 ‘ Brown Book ’ , produced yearly by the Department of Energy to review ‘ Development of the Oil and Gas Resources of the United Kingdom ’ , increased its estimate of ‘ remaining recoverable oil reserves ’ in the UK North Sea from 1220–4220 million tonnes at the end of 1982 , to 1410–5280 million tonnes at the end of 1983 . |
| 29 | By 1857 when Agassiz 's Essay on Classification appeared , as an introduction to a never-completed work on the natural history of the USA , it was already difficult to believe that Noah 's flood had really been a world-wide catastrophe with animals surviving two by two ; indeed Agassiz 's work on ice ages had involved reinterpretation of data that seemed evidence of the Flood . |
| 30 | It was most unsettling to discover that that was not the case . |