Example sentences of "was [conj] it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One thing that struck me about this contraceptive suggestion was that it was being made by people who totally disapproved of all experimentation on animals . |
| 32 | What she did n't find out until too late was that it was one thing to jump a gap but quite another to stay put on the landing stone when the surface was wet and slippery . |
| 33 | The only important thing about the rest of my life was that it was there . |
| 34 | The only real characteristic of each day was that it was the same as the day before and to give any account of such days in strict sequence would make as tedious reading as it made tedious living . |
| 35 | What was perhaps so satisfying about the sermon was that it was able to turn an apparently negative quality into a positive asset . |
| 36 | Carew 's immediate response was that it was garish and vulgar , like Durkin himself . |
| 37 | In B Division , the discipline was about the worst in the force — the thing was that it was not a bad pay-packet plus there was the pension at the end — a big item . |
| 38 | The overriding criticism of the National Curriculum proposals was that it was not designed to achieve significant fundamental aims : it did not obviously focus upon ‘ great issues , principles and values ’ , or on the development of fundamentally important attitudes and skills , which educators , industrialists , and all those concerned with the welfare of society and the enrichment of the individual , would see as paramount . |
| 39 | In her book on the local state Cynthia Cockburn develops this idea by suggesting that the main criticism to be applied to corporate planning in local government was that it was a method borrowed from the private sector and was thus inherently anti-democratic , implying control from the top and attempts to manage the community ( the reproduction of labour power ) , as well as the workforce ( in the process of production ) ( Cockburn , 1977 , pp. 6–18 ) . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | The weakness of feudal service as a basis for recruiting an army was that it was hedged round with difficult restrictions . |
| 42 | 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 ’ . |
| 43 | The League of Nations appeared to have washed its hands of the city , and the general attitude was that it was a matter for Poles and Germans to decide between themselves . |
| 44 | Like Forster , all he could guess was that it was fast . |
| 45 | The redeeming feature was that it was all in aid of charity and two children 's hospitals outside Moscow benefited . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | When we gave it a tightfisted 52% in Issue 79 , our main bone of contention was that it was ridiculously overpriced . |
| 48 | Dalgliesh 's private verdict was that it was technically brilliant , but overwrought and painted , he felt , in hatred . |
| 49 | But the inescapable conclusion was that it was one of their own who must have been responsible . |
| 50 | The only surprising thing was that it was all less irksome than he had imagined . |
| 51 | ‘ The biggest difficulty was that it was anonymous , ’ she says . |
| 52 | One of the potential problems with Carevision was that it was a very young company with a management team that had not worked together before . |
| 53 | But when we looked at the location , our feeling was that it was close to the City and there were professional couples living nearby . |
| 54 | One of the things that surprised me when I first read the New Testament seriously was that it was always talking about a Dark Power in the universe — a mighty evil spirit who was held to be the Power behind death and disease , and sin . |
| 55 | This was precisely why Edward Irving prophetically saw that the great evil of industrialism ( to use his friend Carlyle 's term ) was that it was godless . |
| 56 | The problem was that it was theoretically possible for someone to introduce poison gas into a remote and perhaps unguarded part of the system and for the noxious fumes to be carried through to the General-Secretary 's apartments or office . |
| 57 | The point Jesus was making was that it was all around them and they had n't noticed ! |
| 58 | The only thing in its favour was that it was red and obviously new . |
| 59 | The commonest response , from 43 per cent , was that it was ‘ occasionally necessary ( for expensive but essential things you do n't have the cash for ) ’ : given the possibility that they could have said ‘ sensible ’ or ‘ convenient-instead of ‘ necessary ’ , this suggests a rather more grudging acceptance . |
| 60 | I think what he meant was that it was easier on the man . |