Example sentences of "that it was [art] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the fact that she wanted to weep , and she was shaking so badly inside that it was a wonder she could still stand up straight at all , she snorted derisively , because she was too afraid to believe his words . |
| 2 | You may conclude that it was a drug which was administered to him . ’ |
| 3 | He was so strong and confident , so sure of himself , that it was a pity he held all women in contempt . |
| 4 | Silkin replied that it was a factor which he was entitled to take into account . |
| 5 | Wordsworth worked from observation — ‘ The incident occurred in the village of Holford , close by Alfoxden ’ , — but in a letter of 1836 he makes it clear that it was a friend who actually saw the man . |
| 6 | It was also felt that it was a company which nobody could attack on the grounds of political bias in favour of the project — if anything , thought Walsh , the other way round , after he had seen a portrait of Margaret Thatcher prominently displayed in its Ealing headquarters . |
| 7 | The BDDA , as long ago as 1924 , foresaw this unhappy industrial crisis , and recognising that it was a question it could not handle alone , the National Institute was requested to deal with it . |
| 8 | But it is still widely believed that it was a game which was avidly played at Poitiers whenever Marie , her chaplain Andrew , and Chrétien de Troyes came to visit Eleanor . |
| 9 | Neither spoke ; they knew that it was a trauma she had to face . |
| 10 | Angelica had already decided that her money could be taken out of the petty cash and then lost in the books somewhere … and if ever they should be caught doing it , she did n't feel that it was a crime she 'd be ashamed of . |
| 11 | And in that twilight world between waking and sleeping she saw that it was a face she knew , her own . |
| 12 | The fact that it was a woman who delivered the doubly-sexist utterance makes it no more PC . |
| 13 | Then I told myself that it was the state I was in and somehow I pulled myself together and came home . ’ |
| 14 | Even going to the length of alleging in the public press that it was the Board which was in breach of its contract . |
| 15 | Conscious of a ripping sound , she heard her zip go , then her taffeta skirt was rustling to the floor and he was pulling her down among its glossy folds , his lips marauding over hers so that it was the way it was in the unrequited dreams of the empty nights when everything came down to the touch of him like the still centre of the entire world . |
| 16 | Here , one felt that it was the orchestra which gave the work its verve . |
| 17 | In power , it never occurred to him , just as it did not occur to Mr Gorbachev until it was too late , that it was the system itself that was rotten through and through . |
| 18 | Firstly , it viewed the company as distinct from its shareholders and therefore , unlike the contractual model , it could be seen to support the theory that it was the company which was liable for any debts . |
| 19 | She found that she was bringing more and more discipline to her writing for the Clarion , and thinking of this she noticed that it was the Clarion which Dr Neil was reading , or pretending to read , for her new awareness told her that , too . |
| 20 | One woman told me that it was the day she was able to swim the width of the local pool after years of being afraid . |
| 21 | It does not put upon the mat ( not at least in the same direct way ) the state of affairs of anyone believing that it was the knave who stole them . |
| 22 | Alice afterwards — in an effort to safeguard her position — claimed that it was the queen who had summoned her and who had promised to look after her in the future . |
| 23 | He would claim that it was the sentence which changed his life , convinced him that acting was worth doing . |
| 24 | The Sussex Daily News could only say that it was the boy who had the black eye when they got to the police station . |
| 25 | Suffering fever , blindness and paralysis , they reached Lake Tanganyika in 1857 but it was Speke who eventually found Lake Victoria and realized that it was the reservoir which fed the great river . |
| 26 | Gregory claims that it was the king who insisted that the consecration should be held at Metz , out of affection for the candidate , but this may be a euphemism for saying that consecration in Clermont was too dangerous . |
| 27 | As mentioned , the House of Lords took the view that it was the person who made the transfer and his spouse and possibly persons connected with the transfer of the assets . |
| 28 | He would plead that the plugs had been planted by someone who bore a grudge against him , and the story would be quickly put round the plant that it was the foreman himself who had fixed it , to settle an old score . |
| 29 | Johnson took McQueen 's side and observed acidly that it was the Laird who should be forced to emigrate , at which McQueen respectfully and loyally demurred , knowing that the laird , to quote Boswell , ‘ could not shift for himself in America ’ . |
| 30 | He saw the hideous face of the huge thrashing thing before him , superimposed on that blank mask , and knew that it was the face he had been looking for since the death of his wife and son . |