Example sentences of "was [conj] it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The state of this condensed milk was that it is packed in tins bearing labels . |
| 2 | Secondly , he believed an essential condition of the triumph of the proletariat was that it be guided by Marxism . |
| 3 | One of the criticisms of the list last year was that it was weighted too heavily towards a younger generation , a generation that overall had not really accomplished very much . |
| 4 | The interesting fact was that it was recorded back in 1990 as part of a series of people at work and was delayed because of the Gulf War . |
| 5 | One reason why Bonn became the capital was that it was favoured by Konrad Adenauer , der alte Fuchs ( the Old Fox ) , the Federal Republic 's first post-war chancellor who had his political base in the North Rhineland . |
| 6 | It was coined in 1969 by the American scientist John Wheeler as a graphic description of an idea that goes back at least two hundred years , to a time when there were two theories about light : one , which Newton favored , was that it was composed of particles ; the other was that it was made of waves . |
| 7 | It was coined in 1969 by the American scientist John Wheeler as a graphic description of an idea that goes back at least two hundred years , to a time when there were two theories about light : one , which Newton favored , was that it was composed of particles ; the other was that it was made of waves . |
| 8 | My own opinion was that it was written by a Communist infiltrator . |
| 9 | Some writers have held that the essential thing about medieval law was that it was discovered , not made ; in so far as it was valid and sound , it was a reflection of divine law ; it partook of the nature of what in more recent times has been called ‘ fundamental law ’ . |
| 10 | The key attraction of British Caledonian to SAS was that it was based in Gatwick airport — a key hub airport . |
| 11 | A remarkable feature of this decision of the House of Lords was that it was based on almost no judicial authority at all . |
| 12 | What is curious about Carnot 's work was that it was done using the obsolescent theory that heat was a weightless fluid , driving a steam-engine like water driving a water-wheel . |
| 13 | My these they were , my recollection may be wrong , I thought it had been put to the yesterday and was that it was shouted a number of times but , you were there , it was only shouted once . |
| 14 | Right the situation in Maastricht up till the nineteenth century was that It was described as a di- or tri-glossic erm linguistic community . |
| 15 | An order was made under section 4(2) of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 postponing publication or report of certain details of the proceedings until after the conclusion of all 24 numbered indictments in a schedule , when it would be announced in open court by Judge McMullan that the order had expired ; the order stated that the purpose of making it was that it was adjudged to be necessary to avoid a substantive risk of prejudice to the administration of justice in other pending proceedings . |
| 16 | The weakness of feudal service as a basis for recruiting an army was that it was hedged round with difficult restrictions . |
| 17 | Mr Livingstone argued that the move towards unity was merely the normal pre-election loyalty which the party usually showed ; the only difference this time was that it was happening 18 months earlier than normal . |
| 18 | All I knew was that it was buried somewhere in the middle of that sea of bricks ’ ( Orwell , 1939 ; 1962 edn , p. 117 ) . |
| 19 | The implication was that it was going to be a bit warmer today was n't it ? |
| 20 | We only knew for certain that there was something strange afoot when we heard the sounds of a train being marshalled and it started coming towards the hostel , what is more terrifying was that it was coming on a non-existent track ! |
| 21 | One popular theory was that it was propagated by the miasma which hung about the damp , insanitary places such as overcrowded burial grounds . |
| 22 | According to Ben Hird ( the nineteen year old winner of it in 1900 ) in his book about the arrow , the most likely story was that it was won by John Wastell at an archery tournament while he was at Cambridge in 1653–4 ( it was not unusual for silver arrows to be given as prizes in such contests ) and brought back to his family home at Scorton . |
| 23 | The whole significance of that Budget was that it was designed to eliminate the need for , or the risk of , the monetisation of debt as a result of the level of Government expenditure in relation to the level of the national product . |
| 24 | For them , the main explanation of national policy — at least in its centralization phrase — was that it was designed to undermine resistance to the wider political strategies of the Conservative government . |
| 25 | Ah ah it was but it was sanctioned but we had to sign a contract with them . |
| 26 | Two five five , the reason why the Executive asked for withdrawal was because it 's moving us a bit too fast along this track , and it 's moving us in a particular direction before we 've had the time to think about whether that 's the right direction to go . |
| 27 | Cynics have suggested that the reason the Nelson Mandela bash attracted so many celebrities , at the expense of the more official Amnesty gig and an earlier AIDS benefit , was because it was televised worldwide to over one billion viewers . |
| 28 | Before the 1970s , one reason why wife battering was not perceived as a social problem was because it was argued that those who suffered it could leave and those who stayed could not be suffering . |
| 29 | In so far as management budgeting was seen to be a failure , it was because it was perceived to be too much of a finance-led exercise which did not adequately tackle the organisational and behavioural issues . |
| 30 | This was because it was acting in a public capacity . |