Example sentences of "it was the [noun] of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alec wore a navy-blue romper suit — the outfit of a French workman , or indeed that of some little new-wave narcissist at a C. L. & S. screening It was the sight of him in his issued clothing that made me sense just how far he had fallen . |
| 2 | I told him it was the size of it all disturbed me . |
| 3 | It was the idea of her only grandson who wanted to create a focus for her many devotees . |
| 4 | ‘ Celeste was never in love with me , it was the idea of me that she loved . |
| 5 | It was the idea of his father , who had first seen the university in 1932 . |
| 6 | How Eric copes with the numbers it can accommodate is a mystery , but it was the mysteries of his talent we were there to learn . |
| 7 | It was the birth of his own son that confronted him with questions . |
| 8 | It was the thought of her that had drawn me back to the Lodge with my dream , and if this odd enterprise had any meaning at all it must lie , I believed , somewhere between the three of us . |
| 9 | And , just for a moment , in spite of the pain that brought her , it was the thought of his hurt that tore at her heart . |
| 10 | For Attlee it was the vindication of his policy . |
| 11 | All this may seem a little behind the times to the modern generation and to feminists , but I recognize that it was the way of my mother 's and father 's world . |
| 12 | When his head jerked back to look up at Grant again , it was n't his teeth that were gleaming in the dark now , it was the whites of his eyes , wide with fear . |
| 13 | Photographed from all angles , toasted by the people and politicians alike , it was the symbol of our rugby supremacy and treated with extraordinary reverence by the whole population . |
| 14 | It was the direction of her life she was questioning , for the first time since she had settled on a career . |
| 15 | It was the foundation of what became known as ‘ socio-technical systems theory ’ and had a direct influence on the Scandinavian experiments in work organisation , of which the SAAB and Volvo cases described in Chapter 5 are just two examples . |
| 16 | ‘ As it was the possibility of her resigning was in the papers for about three weeks . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ His voice just triggered it all off , I knew it was the beginning of something ’ said Heather , of Aberdeen Road , Darlington . |
| 18 | For those who had criticized the flawed economics of the nuclear protagonists ' case for so long it was the beginning of their justification . |
| 19 | It was the beginning of what was to become the greatest and most dangerous hardship of our voyage . |
| 20 | It was the beginning of his life with Jenny Blyth and the end of his life-long love-affair with Glasgow Celtic . |
| 21 | It was the beginning of his sixth day in Little Weirwold . |
| 22 | It was the beginning of my long road to the Olympic Games in Seoul . |
| 23 | It was the beginning of my disillusionment with the Labour Party . |
| 24 | It was the beginning of our curiosity about each other which led ultimately to a mutual understanding and respect upon which our friendship became firmly based . |
| 25 | It was an issue which was never absent : it marred his day of consecration , and it was the subject of his last letter . |
| 26 | There was a price to be paid , as we 've seen , it was the price of himself . |
| 27 | It was the voice of someone old , with a speech impairment , and it was in German . |
| 28 | For Briggs it was the purity of their aims . |
| 29 | It was the noise of something stretching and straining under enormous , impossible pressure ; as if the very fabric of that wall must suddenly explode inwards , enveloping them in a deadly blast of shattered brick and concrete . |
| 30 | I do n't wish to be disrespectful , and everybody has a right to their own taste , but it was the colour of it that really put me off . |