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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was also ridiculous to think that the stranger Edna had described was Freddie Nash . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At this stage , it was also important to establish that the best results would be achieved if a critical and constructive approach was adopted . |
| 6 | It was also important to ensure that the money was well spent . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was also depressing to realize that yet another member of the staffroom of the Islamic Boys ' Independent Wimbledon Day School was barking mad . |
| 9 | It was also entitled to ensure that the GP who made the referral understood the implications of his decision . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was most unsettling to discover that that was not the case . |
| 14 | Morse had a bit of money — he knew that , but the chief 's generosity , certainly in pubs , was seldom in evidence ; and it was most reassuring to find that there was an unexpectedly munificent side to the chief inspector 's soul . |
| 15 | She knew from her first meeting with him that he could n't always understand written languages the way he could speech , but if he visited Earth so often it was probably reasonable to assume that he would know languages other than English . |
| 16 | Apart from this it was probably true to say that the Truman Administration , well before it came to an end , had run out of ideas on Vietnam ; and it is probably true also that at the end of 1951 the weight of the French problem was beginning to shift : not so much how the US could get France out but how to keep her in . |
| 17 | As a temperance organisation it was particularly stunned to discover that some its missing money has been invested in drinking and gambling establishments . |
| 18 | It was desperately hard to accept that this serene man , so calm , so dignified , such a majestic cricketer , could have been taken in this way . |
| 19 | It was vaguely insulting to know that he treated her as casually as he would have treated any stranger with whom he found himself forced to share a house . |
| 20 | For John , on his endless round of visits to cuttings and embankments , tunnels and bridges , it was sometimes hard to believe that all this buzz of well-organized industry could be brought to a halt by the movement of bits of paper in the far-off City . |
| 21 | The judge said it was quite impossible to say that any error was shown by these matters on the face of the determination , and that the parties were , on a matter of opinion , bound by the opinion of their chosen expert . |
| 22 | It was quite difficult to believe that there could be any animation in them . |
| 23 | It was unspeakably horrid to know that a great , slithering , inchoate mass of effluence was crawling and creeping and smelling its way towards you . |
| 24 | Which was why it was so intriguing to hear that he had told one or more of the SRU 's top brass that while Peter Wright was still scrummaging like a tight-head prop in that — one would have thought very wisely — he did not attempt any of the seasoned loose-head 's tricks of the trade , he had found him a good , strong and heavy scrummager , difficult to budge . |
| 25 | It was so fascinating to observe that I was very sorry when the party broke up , and even more so when Margaret did not ask her old pal Richard to stay on for supper with us after the Rolls drove away . |
| 26 | When I held that tiny baby in my arms it was so hard to believe that something so beautiful could come from such a sordid act . |
| 27 | By the end of the 1980s it was nonetheless possible to say that the USSR was more directly involved in the affairs of the world community than at any previous time in her history , not only at a formal intergovernmental level but also through a variety of personal , commercial , sporting , scientific and other channels . |
| 28 | He knew none of his neighbours , except as furtive faces glimpsed at windows , and now — though it was too late to change that — he regretted it . |
| 29 | By the time Isabel died , it was too late to alter that , for she was herself already wasting . ’ |
| 30 | Aesthetically , he was in love , but it was still hard to think that eventually this sculpture of flesh and bone must become his soul 's vehicle , his robot . |