Example sentences of "it [was/were] [that] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ingenuity of it was that it operated exactly like a Jacquard loom , which is a loom for weaving tapestries without human control no matter how intricate or varied the design . |
| 2 | And then , when he was about eighteen , reality of another kind intruded itself and he said aloud , ‘ I did n't do it for Alice , I did it for myself ’ , and thought how extraordinary it was that it had taken four years to discover that fact . |
| 3 | The verdict of the clerk to the select committee of 1824 which reviewed it was that it had been a dead letter so far as " those artisans on whom it was intended to have an effect " , namely printers , tailors , shoe makers and shipbuilders in London who continued " their regular societies and houses of call as though no such act were in existence " . |
| 4 | And the worst part of it was that it had been so wonderful that it would be hard to avoid doing it again . |
| 5 | The worst part about it was that it stopped right in the line of flight of some bees who were working the field of clover . |
| 6 | ‘ One good thing to come out of it was that it inspired me to play guitar and turned me into the person I am . ’ |
| 7 | With the national debate over the proposals to privatize the electricity industry gathering steam we knew how important it was that it did n't fade away . |
| 8 | The main reason that he was carrying it rather than wearing it was that it did not belong to him . |