Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] that it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told them in the club bar that it was all down to my carefully structured pre-season training programme , but after last season 's relegation I have n't been near the ground since April ! |
| 2 | ‘ I understand from the Echo man that it was your paper in Nature that put him onto the track , ’ Kegan said maliciously . |
| 3 | It has been claimed that these free-for-all/do-it-yourself Group attacks justified the early Command view that it was wrong to form a corps d'elite . |
| 4 | The Times hypothesised in the course of the election campaign that it was leaders who lost elections , not challengers who won them . |
| 5 | A JUDGE who told a young robber with girl trouble that it was a female 's role to upset men insisted yesterday : ‘ I 'm no sexist . ’ |
| 6 | Sofia 's International Peace Foundation , named after Mr Zhivkov 's late daughter , is being investigated following allegations by a central committee member that it was used to send convertible currency abroad for the family 's use . |
| 7 | If they had realised when they answered the advertisement in the Evening Citizen that it was bare metal , they would have gone elsewhere . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , although the state of the environment was no longer viewed as the crisis issue that it was in 1969–70 , public support for environmental protection remained considerably stronger throughout the 1970s than it was prior to the emergence of the environmental movement ( Anthony , 1982 ) . |
| 9 | On Dec. 21 , however , the Minister for Lands , Agriculture and Rural Resettlement , Witness Mangwende , sought to reassure the white farming community that it was not the government 's intention to " grab land " for the resettlement programme . |
| 10 | At 4pm Rear Admiral John Tolhurst had already announced to demoralised workers at the Portland Navy base that it was too close . |
| 11 | Although no details of the agreement have been released , Acquavella told The Art Newspaper that it was an exclusive , world-wide deal covering all of the artist 's oil paintings . |
| 12 | She adored the upstairs in Glasgow trams , the only drawback being that it was where the smokers went . |
| 13 | We started from the car park just outside Charmouth and were warned by the parking attendant that it was a harder walk than many thought . |
| 14 | However , the Law Lords took the common-sense view that it was ridiculous to say a building was ‘ for the time being in ecclesiastical use ’ if it was , in fact , being demolished . |
| 15 | Langbaurgh mayor Brenda Forster told the planning committee that it was a sad reflection on society that the roller shutters had to be used but at least they could be a little more colourful . |
| 16 | Cristiani then told a news conference that it was not clear whether the logbooks had in fact been burnt , that Hernandez had ordered one of the defendants to make them " available " , and that it remained to be determined what subsequently happened to them . |
| 17 | In 1627 a settlement was made on Barbados , which had two additional attractions : it was uninhabited , so the dangers of warfare with the Caribs did not arise , and it was so far to the east of the island chain that it was even better protected by the trade winds than any of the other islands . |
| 18 | ‘ I will not tolerate dissent , ’ said referee ‘ Jersey Joe ’ Walcott , who told the other chief offender Moin that it was time he ‘ grew up ’ . |
| 19 | She told Vanity Fair that it was well known in Washington that President Bush had had an extra-marital affair . |
| 20 | So much lava flowed into the Skaftar valley that it was completely filled and lava began to spill out over the surrounding countryside . |
| 21 | It 's here , said wicked Elissia , with her light finger down Mademoiselle 's spine She gave a scream thinking that it was the spider running there . |
| 22 | The word came from the dressing room that it was Martin Foyle ; I saw Andy Melville kick it into the net — what did n't I see ? |
| 23 | I should perhaps add for completeness sake that it was urged upon your Lordships that there was always a possibility of a leak to the prosecuting authorities of incriminating information disclosed by the defendants as a result of complying with the order and use being made , innocently , by the prosecution of such information , which , ex hypothesi , they had not themselves acquired . |
| 24 | At the opening of the Hinkley C Inquiry the CEGB felt so confident about the support of this government policy that it was raised like a standard at the front of its arguments . |
| 25 | The ILP had shrunk to a small faction by 1940 , its only significance being that it was well represented in the Commons . |
| 26 | He complied , his only concern being that it was n't drugs . |
| 27 | Into this somewhat bizarre plot , Hopper built in his odd interjections designed to remind the cinema audience that it was only a movie they were watching , that nothing was real . |
| 28 | On inquiring about the matter , I was told that the health common services authority had decided to move to the bay because it had been told by an independent property consultancy that it was a much better choice of location than anywhere else . |
| 29 | Using the Jodrell Bank Radio telescope in Cheshire , they had observed the super dense pulsating radio star ( pulsar ) PSR18219-10 for 18 months and deduced from variations in its radio signature that it was being orbited by a planet every six months at approximately the same distance as that from Venus to the Sun . |
| 30 | Fourteen per cent ( 29 ) did nothing about their incontinence when it first occurred — the main reason being that it was ‘ not important enough . ’ |