Example sentences of "[noun sg] that it was [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It flashed across my mind that it was just what he would do , he would n't go to the doctor . |
| 2 | In fact this put severe restrictions on the committee 's deliberations , and the chairman repeatedly had to advise counsel for both the GMC and the defence that it was not their function to comment on the relative merits or otherwise of alternative forms of medicine . |
| 3 | It was more than a legal victory for Taylor when the judge told the skinhead that it was only his brief 's eloquence that had saved him from prison . |
| 4 | And therefore in a sense , it might be down to departmental management that it was n't something that the suggestion system should encompass . |
| 5 | He told the Daily Post that it was likely there would not be a court hearing until May . |
| 6 | This led her to the alarming conclusion that it was not they who were bigger , but she who was smaller — and a lot smaller . |
| 7 | I must admit to a certain degree of hurt masculine pride that it was n't me who tempted you , but , as a businessman and a major shareholder in the station , I have to admire your dedication . |
| 8 | It was that which made his anger so violent : the knowledge that it was not his alone ; that it was shared and felt by thousands upon thousands of others , rich and poor , strong and weak , man and woman , parent and child , all around the world . |
| 9 | And the night that it was over we met in our quarters , we poured a drink and we stood there and looked at each other and he said well , we made it . |
| 10 | Oh , heavens , she thought , and tried to discount a dreadful feeling that it was n't his secretary so much that he was furious to see , but her ! |
| 11 | ‘ My government wants your assurance that it was n't my fault . ’ |
| 12 | Er we left that out because of Dennis ' assurance that it was just our costs , but these are , this is certainly something that we would have to er add to our cost . |
| 13 | In the city , for example , there was the thought that it was n't ours , it was just there to be exploited . |
| 14 | He clarifies the difference by comparing the humanistic pastoral counsellor 's attitude to suffering as ‘ something to be relieved ’ , with the spiritual director 's ‘ which might at least suggest the counterclaim that it was rather something to be interpreted and creatively redeemed ’ . |
| 15 | It had been clear from the conversation that it was n't something that concerned the gallery , but her personally . |
| 16 | She was a bit troublesome to me to begin with but I soon cottoned on to the fact that it was n't her but the girl she was sitting next to within the class . |
| 17 | Well and the fact that it was just their garden , and as far as I can make out it was simply that garden , it would suggest that she 's fallen out with some kids or something like that or somebody and yeah . |