Example sentences of "it [was/were] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was that through which he must pass next . |
| 2 | It was that for the first time something illogical had crept into her world . |
| 3 | So it was that with high spirits I packed Baedekers and prejudices , boots and a bootload of assumptions and set out for Dover . |
| 4 | Crabb 's ex-wife saw the body at Bognor mortuary but was unable to confirm that it was that of her husband . |
| 5 | It was that of sex allocation : what resources should an individual put into male and female reproductive functions either directly or by determining the sex of its offspring ? |
| 6 | The eyes of the captain turned dark , and if there was any emotion left in his voice , it was that of distaste . |
| 7 | It was that of an articulate minority within the party which had a complex relationship with the class upon which it depended and which it claimed to represent . |
| 8 | She could hardly credit his appearance ; it was that of an old man . |
| 9 | A man of immense physical vigour , intellectual confidence and moral force , as naturally extrovert as was Paul painfully introvert , his decisive experience was not that of the Council ( which he did attend ) , nor of the Western Christian 's attempt to reshape the gospel when faced with the blandishments of agnostic affluence , still less was it any deep experience of the struggles of the third world ; instead , it was that of the Church 's singularly successful , no-nonsense resistance to communism in Poland : a combination of old-fashioned pieties , unquestioned doctrinal certainties , down-to-earth preoccupation with basic human rights , and a dose of sheer populism . |
| 10 | I was n't at all sure it was that of an inevitably high-profile presenter . |
| 11 | If one name was synonymous with motor racing in Britain in the 1950s , it was that of Stirling Moss . |
| 12 | A chronicle source confirms Langland 's remark about bread being made from materials other than grain , namely beans , peas and vetches , but it should be noted that this year , 1439 , saw a great dearth of corn , and the chronicler 's comment probably reflects the unusual nature of the food , at least in his eyes ; we do not know how far this view would be general and how far it was that of a man whose conditions were normally more affluent . |
| 13 | Society could expect nothing of them but amusement and a disposition to enjoy themselves ; and they had no responsibilities unless it was that of not misleading the chief by wrong deciphering or an incorrect translation . " |
| 14 | If there was a sphere in which the authorities had a certain justification for retreating from the policy of reform ( and in which they could have afforded to act without alienating a numerically significant part of the population ) , it was that of higher education . |
| 15 | And erm it was erm like silky material so it looked really , it , it was n't chiffon it was erm no it was sort of satiny silky , it was n't real silk but it was like shiny stuff , and it sort of went in , in and it went a V down there and then it like flowed down and it was very short and because it was a si but it d it was n't tight , I mean it sort of clung , it showed her waist but it did n't , you know , it exaggerated her waist but it did n't like it did n't cling anywhere else really and it just looked quite , it was flowing and it was , it was really smart and it was , I , the sort of erm the material would be erm sort of almost like und er like my pyjamas that , it was that in black kind of halfy satiny silky stuff . |