Example sentences of "[noun] it was this " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the BMJ , in its special commemorative number for the Queen 's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 , reviewed the development of the profession over the previous sixty years it was this aspect that it chose to trumpet . |
| 2 | ‘ Teenage music ’ had not yet arrived , and what there was was essentially for adults , in the form of country and western and rhythm and blues ; jazz was popular , of course , in some circles , but for the rest it was this or classical music , which Leonard also enjoyed , and waltzes . |
| 3 | According to the Song geographer Chao-ju-kua it was this maritime network that brought to the Chinese several of the materials they held in highest regard next to jade . |
| 4 | When Harriet once again saw her daughter off at Penzance station it was this time with a sense of relief . |
| 5 | If anything was destined to distract the assembly from an objective consideration of rival arguments it was this strange , almost mad , outburst from the Magistrate . |
| 6 | to Jim , whose turn it was this morning : |
| 7 | I was just checking here in from the book by and I was looking at the chapter here on Roses Rivetus and er and it was on the mission to Munster here that er Third Combat Mission once a day for three days ' running was to Munster it was this ill-fated mission that made the reputation as the bloody Hundredth and of course this is the one that he only came back from . |
| 8 | In the university field it was this problem which generated the appearance of the Atkinson Report ( see pp.9–10 ) itself a political solution . |