Example sentences of "it [adj] that it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it possible that it was not , after all , some long-gone love , but … ? |
| 2 | and I do n't think you gave evidence that you shouted armed police yourself , so is it right that it was only shouted one time just immediately after the second door opened ? |
| 3 | The changes made it clear that it was Bjelke-Petersen , rather than Her Majesty , who was at fault . |
| 4 | Although — it had to be said , in all fairness — the Colonel had made it clear that it was Elisabeth 's mind that attracted him . |
| 5 | He made it clear that it was for Sir Rufus to determine , and for you to comply . |
| 6 | Wordsworth worked from observation — ‘ The incident occurred in the village of Holford , close by Alfoxden ’ , — but in a letter of 1836 he makes it clear that it was a friend who actually saw the man . |
| 7 | But Downing Street made it clear that it was the Cabinet which set the £244.5 billion spending target — and it can increase that figure if it wants to . |
| 8 | As early as February 1919 , Vickers had made it clear that it was possible to fly a Vickers Vimy across the Atlantic . |
| 9 | Along with this distinction between ‘ public ’ and ‘ private ’ , the Wolfenden Committee also distinguished between ‘ crime ’ and ‘ sin ’ , making it clear that it was only concerned with the former . |
| 10 | But modern scholarship has made it clear that it was in France , more so than in England , that urban defensive requirements played a major part in securing the widespread acceptance of artillery as a means of deterring or countering a prospective enemy . |
| 11 | A report of the work was typed by the school secretary but its informal style and the sometimes cryptic references to individual children make it clear that it was intended for internal circulation only . |
| 12 | Kraal was inclined to say , fixing Woil with a glare and flexing his talons back and forth to make it clear that it was just as well there were three cages between them because if there were n't … |
| 13 | I have no desire to detract from Mike Broderick 's promotion , but as The Bookseller is a journal of record I would like to make it clear that it was only following my resignation that the position of group home sales director was created at Random House . |
| 14 | In his concluding press conference Mikoian also made it clear that it was Havana , rather than Moscow , which was stalling on the resumption of diplomatic relations , a remark which was not quoted in the Pravda report ( Dinerstein : 1962 , p. 68 ) . |
| 15 | His young master brought him in repeatedly and I went through the motions , trying at the same time to make it clear that it was all hopeless . |
| 16 | We thought we 'd made it clear that it was only the MPC ( Multimedia PC ) versions of either card ( that is the SoundBlaster Pro and the Adlib Gold ) gave access to both MID and WAV file playing . |
| 17 | However , that was a matter which SACHR raised with me only this week and made it clear that it was a subject to which it would return . |
| 18 | The collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of an independent Russian state had kindled strong expectations that the dispute would be settled , particularly as the Japanese government had made it clear that it was unwilling to provide the significant economic aid required by the Russians while the dispute remained outstanding . |
| 19 | This made it clear that it was not the governments objective to alter fundamentally the red relationship between auditor and client , nor were we looking to increase the costs of audit . |
| 20 | John Patten 's made it clear that it was satirical in a small meeting . |
| 21 | However , profit margins are tiny where they exist at all and ICI had made it clear that it was not chasing ‘ profitless prosperity . ’ |
| 22 | the was that the first one was was more or less science orientated an I I , I looked at it and thought how how I could how I could make it such that it was common |
| 23 | American reaction made it inevitable that it was an American plane . |
| 24 | He made it plain that it was the collective wisdom of the party , as the embodiment of the revolutionary consciousness of the class , which provided the best guide to appropriate practice . |
| 25 | Nor is it surprising that it was one of the two arts areas in the curriculum pantheon at the time , art , with its claim to encourage pupil 's imaginative abilities , which was able most readily to respond to the changed educational climate . |