Example sentences of "[adv] it was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this trio again blended well together it was the tremendous ability of McClure which sealed the ticket to Ayr . |
| 2 | Suddenly it was the Chinese , not the foreigners , who were pressing for a deal . |
| 3 | However , when I got to Liverpool on Thursday and saw the state of the ground , instead of thinking about such horses as Laura 's Beau , Rubika and Cool Ground as the major chances , suddenly it was the good-ground types such as Docklands Express who re-entered calculations . |
| 4 | Apparently it was the withholding or delay in the payment of Peter 's Pence from England that led Pope Alexander II to approve the Norman expedition in 1066 . |
| 5 | Basically it was the songs and a sort of mime play with Jack , Lindsay and David leading into a set piece with Lindsay as the old woman feeding the birds , which is a wonderful one , where the bird grows and grows to a monstrous size and finally devours the old lady . |
| 6 | Historians have long argued about the ‘ rise ’ of this group , but basically it was the collective experience of nearly fifty individual families who became the pacesetters of Elizabethan Sussex . |
| 7 | For those who had criticized the flawed economics of the nuclear protagonists ' case for so long it was the beginning of their justification . |
| 8 | And naturally it was the wish of the Baron and madame . |
| 9 | Perhaps it was the flu . |
| 10 | Perhaps it was the branches that were spiking inside her ears , grating against the back of her throat ? |
| 11 | The bed itself had an old , lumpy mattress which gave off a faint odour of damp or rotting fabric — or perhaps it was the lingering smell of sheep . |
| 12 | PERHAPS it was the presence of TV cameras on the company 's Fleet Street trading floor , or perhaps it was a genuine surge of Conservative support , but for some reason a number of staff at Goldman Sachs were instructed to wear blue shirts , ties and braces for election day . |
| 13 | Perhaps it was the transition to land that enabled the scorpions to survive beyond the Palaeozoic , which saw the end of the sea scorpions . |
| 14 | Perhaps it was the hope that preservation would be justified , and there was doubtless great reluctance to cut up such a famous engine . |
| 15 | Perhaps it was the Mancunian manic depressive bliss that was so alluring . |
| 16 | Perhaps she had been taking too little care , or perhaps it was the strain of the bereavement coming out in physical symptoms . |
| 17 | Or perhaps it was the combination of moon , surf , and acoustic guitars . |
| 18 | Footballers grew old and fell on hard times , so perhaps it was the same for horses . |
| 19 | Perhaps it was the weakness from the severe vegan diet . |
| 20 | Perhaps it was the evasive eyes ; perhaps it was the permanent sly grin on the long narrow face which gave the impression that Skerritt was always secretly laughing at him . |
| 21 | Perhaps it was the evasive eyes ; perhaps it was the permanent sly grin on the long narrow face which gave the impression that Skerritt was always secretly laughing at him . |
| 22 | Perhaps it was the handwriting . |
| 23 | Perhaps it was the clash of Third World beach and Dallas skyscraper which triggered my uncharitable scepticism about his extraordinary Utopianism . |
| 24 | ‘ Perhaps it was the Friar , ’ the thin man said , scarcely less alarmed by the thought of this than the thought of the unspecified ‘ they ’ . |
| 25 | Perhaps it was the culmination of the day , the weather so miserable and the wetness permeating to clog his clothes tightly to his skin , making movement uncomfortable and abrasive . |
| 26 | Perhaps it was the immigrant condition living itself out through them . |
| 27 | He attributes this to the unique chewing methods of the ornithopods , and suggests perhaps it was the flowering plants that promoted the decline of the sauropods and their gizzard-stone type of digestion . |
| 28 | … She asked why Blanche did not like my book and I kindly suggested that perhaps it was the woman being scarred from a motor accident which she did n't like ( it was the book itself ) . |
| 29 | We made the excursion with ‘ the children ’ that had become traditional ; perhaps it was the most beautiful , and it was to be the last . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's difficult to understand why he might have been moving badly going to the start — perhaps it was the dirt or maybe it was because the heat was so intense . ’ |