Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] that it was [prep] " in BNC.

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1	Both Ian McGeechan and David Sole admitted that it was by far their side 's worst performance of the season .
2	It had taken a week to obtain , and had Hapsburg officialdom realized that it was for him rather than Aranyos it would have been unlikely to arrive before the end of the war .
3	In this way the child learnt that it was in his own interest for the experimenter to go to the empty box .
4	International law recognised that it was for each state to determine the conditions upon which it granted its nationality to ships , subject to there being a genuine link between the flag state and the vessel .
5	Although workers tended to stay with one firm most of the time , fluctuations in trade meant that it was by no means unknown to move about on a short-term basis .
6	The hearing officer held that it was for the employee to establish that the employer 's possession of patent protection was an influential factor in persuading the customer to order wholly non-patented items while awaiting the redesign of the patented invention .
7	‘ The cases in which the principle has been applied are cases in which the nature , scope and purpose of the function vested in the repository made it unlikely that Parliament intended that it was to be exercised by the repository personally because administrative necessity indicated that it was impractical for him to act otherwise than through his officers or officers responsible to him .
8	First , the pope asserted that it was upon evidence presented by Offa that Hadrian had based his judgement , Offa testifying that it was the unanimous wish of all that a pallium be sent to the bishop of Lichfield .
9	In the 1924 election manifesto , the Labour party explained that it was by the international record of the Government , rather than by any direct schemes of job creation , that the electorate should judge its efforts to solve the problem of unemployment .

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