Example sentences of "[that] it was [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Through binoculars I could tell that it was part of an animal , and I could see it gently moving as it breathed . |
| 32 | She excused his erratic behaviour because she assumed it was linked to business pressures and that it was part of the aggressive masculinity which she prized . |
| 33 | It is impossible to say to what extent Cézanne was aware of the fact that he was doing this , and in the process breaking the laws of scientific linear perspective , but it seems likely that it was part of a natural desire to emphasize the two-dimensional aspect of the canvas while continuing to explain the nature of objects and also insisting on their solidity by modelling them as fully as possible . |
| 34 | It came at him again , and he could just make out that it was part of his bunk , one of the side panels . |
| 35 | Believing still that the catastrophe had been caused by other people and the actions of other people , believing it as firmly as Kate believed that it had been caused by devils and Quentin that it was part of God 's mystery , Lavinia saw a spark in the gloom . |
| 36 | The first , and perhaps most logical — though one that is vigorously denied by Lord Lawson — is that it was part of a move leading to full monetary union and a Single Currency in Europe . |
| 37 | I was famous at 18 so knew early on that it was part of my job description . ’ |
| 38 | She already had grave doubts about the propriety of letting him buy her things , but accepted that it was part of the deal of being his supposed girlfriend . |
| 39 | Many people feel that that constituted a deliberate attempt by the city council to block Goodwood road , even though the council knew that it was part of the long-planned eastern relief road . |
| 40 | The union alleged that this was the " latest in a series of attacks launched by SATS and the South African police in an attempt to break the 10-week-old strike " and that it was part of a " carefully orchestrated campaign against striking workers " . |
| 41 | The fighting was instigated by Hezbollah , which prompted some commentators to suggest that it was part of an Iranian effort to undermine the Saudi-instigated Taif peace process . |
| 42 | Perry Anderson has shown that the importance of bureaucracy in the absolutist state was that it was part of the state apparatus for a new kind of feudal domination . |
| 43 | Oh , yes , yes , but there there was certainly a time when , er universities , schools and even business companies , thought that it was part of their erm , their way of supporting society in general , that they gave time to go out and give talks . |
| 44 | Deputy co-ordinator John Hinchcliffe told Middlesbrough Victim Support 's annual meeting that it was part of a wider increase in the group 's work . |
| 45 | This conclusion is somewhat at odds with Waller 's ( 1983 ) contention ( written before the 1984–5 dispute ) that it was company control of the villages and of the politics there which made the Dukeries a quiescent region . |
| 46 | In any case , I was n't aware that it was company policy for two doctors to attend a patient . ’ |
| 47 | I can work out by the height of where the hand was on my back that it was Lorna ! |
| 48 | At a press conference the Prime Minister , Carl Bildt , agreed that it was likely that the surveillance equipment had been installed by the former Soviet authorities , but he insisted that it was Russia 's responsibility , as the successor state , to remove them . |
| 49 | Nicolas Platon ( 1968 , p.51 ) suggests that it was contact with the Minoan civilization which led to the development of the Phoenician civilization in the Levant . |
| 50 | The interesting twist to this issue is that it was Japan , clearly now a First World country , and in the opinion of many now the most dynamic economic power , that was often identified in the United States and in Europe , as the worst offender , with the four East Asian NICs not far behind . |
| 51 | The legend enshrines a popular belief that it was Dom Pérignon who created sparkling wine and invented Champagne as we know it today . |
| 52 | In a letter dated 25 October 1821 , Dom Grossard , the last cellarmaster of Hautvillers , informed Monsieur d'Herbes , the deputy mayor of Aÿ , that it was Dom Pérignon who had discovered the secret of making starbright white wines . |
| 53 | Well aware that it was Bismarck 's victory which had brought them their independent status in the new state of Austria-Hungary , the parliamentarians at Budapest were determined resolutely to oppose any diplomatic moves which might seem to threaten Prussia . |
| 54 | I had to wheedle the information out of him , but Capron said he was the senior case officer on the investigation into Mills , and could confirm absolutely that it was Mills who was the Soviet agent who had betrayed my father . |
| 55 | In the middle of the twentieth century Duguid ( 1946 ) emphasised the importance of arterial thrombi in the genesis of the plaque and pointed out that it was Rokitansky who first put forward the ‘ encrustation hypothesis ’ . |
| 56 | That was the one thing that was that I read in the books that it was kind of tradition for the men to wear black . |
| 57 | I knew what I understood by it and that was that it was management |
| 58 | My Lords , I found a very interesting er aspect in the Royal College of Nursing 's review was that resources were not the issue , the Royal College itself came down in favour of the fact that it was management that needed to be tightened up and My Lords it was interesting looking at that survey that it was a telephone survey and in one of the two hospitals er one or two of the hospitals that were rung up , it was quite difficult to find the person who 'd answered the survey . |
| 59 | Ilsa accepted coffee , pleased that it was afternoon when the English do n't generally drink coffee . |
| 60 | While the Centre was not actually named , it was clear that it was Buklod that was being referred to . |