Example sentences of "it was [det] [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Print It was all good material I 'd make |
| 2 | It was that very intelligence which evolved the master strategies . |
| 3 | Yet it was that very absence which made him so large in their imaginations . |
| 4 | It was that particular phone he answered on that late November evening as he sat by the fire working on some files . |
| 5 | It was that same look she had caught a glimpse of earlier . |
| 6 | It was that same fortune which , to save his life , Lord John had promised to return to Sharpe . |
| 7 | It was that same necessity which forced tenants to refuse their service or , as in the case between Guy le Bouteillier , as lord of La Roche-Guyon , and the people of the town , to have the dispute between them on these matters heard before the Parlement of Paris . |
| 8 | It was some such hope which united the movement that now coalesced from all points of the spectrum . |
| 9 | The father , thinking it was some foolish notion she had taken to have him out of the boat , took no notice of her frantic signs , but she would not let him go , and dragged him with almost superhuman effort out of the boat . |
| 10 | When sciences like chemistry began to enter university and then school curricula , it was this sure foundation which their teachers expected to lay . |
| 11 | Indeed it was this economic growth which made the Second Empire so important for 19th- and even 20th-century France . |
| 12 | It was this latter purpose which attracted most money , for in the 1940s and 1950s the government saw the development of youth clubs as one of its priorities . |
| 13 | In short , he dealt in fakes , and it was this latter quality he was most deficient in . |
| 14 | It was this latter comment which indicates the most obvious external change in most of the Sussex market towns , their ‘ gentrification ’ both in buildings and in style of life . |
| 15 | It was this absolute conviction which turned a gifted politician into one of history 's most significant leaders . |
| 16 | It was this working landscape which he recognised far more immediately than the picturesque cataracts , the prescribed ‘ stations ’ for the Claude glass , the thrills of nature . |
| 17 | It was this sanitary principle which exerted a major structural influence on the Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864 , 1866 and 1869 . |
| 18 | what , have a because we 're going to another chap had said are you sure I 've ordered this milk and it was this young man who 's serving you see , and so , the , the more senior librarian she says she said it reminds me of interesting reading , was about erm , it was a very sort , it was , it was an but it was about architecture of , of Italy , you see , it was quite a detailed thing , you know really good detail |
| 19 | Perhaps it was this symbolic importance which led Home Secretary Kenneth Baker , when responding to the Woolf report in February 1991 , to announce that all prisoners would have access to toilet facilities by the end of 1994 ( more than a year earlier than Woolf asked for ) . |
| 20 | He was a handsome man , with neat geometrical features , but it was this mysterious blemish which , I could n't help thinking , was the secret of his success with women . |
| 21 | Perhaps it was this legal background which encouraged Howard to enter into a formal agreement with Henrietta which laid down that ‘ to prevent altercations about those little matters which he had observed to be the chief grounds of uneasiness in families — he should always decide ’ . |
| 22 | To be honest I thought it was this other bloke who . |
| 23 | It was this royal backing which turned Gloucester 's territorial influence into a regional hegemony . |
| 24 | It was this royal backing which turned Gloucester 's territorial influence into a regional hegemony . |
| 25 | Thirdly , in the study by Meshkinpour over a third of the patients were referred with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease compared with 14.2% in our study , and it was this patient population which yielded the smallest number of positive diagnoses in our experience . |
| 26 | It was this romantic dimension which Britten set out to portray . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , it was this detested regime which managed to make its mark in the New World , for the successful urban renewal of Paris combined with the great prestige which the city enjoyed as a centre of art and culture drew to it Americans of all kinds . |
| 28 | It would be inappropriate , however , to avoid the general subject of birth control , since it was this very question which ostensibly destroyed his ambition to lead the Conservative Party , and indeed , to be prime minister . |
| 29 | Yet it was this very stability which made them so potentially harmful , for their effects upon a whole ecosystem , as opposed to an individual species , were not considered before they were adopted and so , as farmers enthusiastically seized the opportunities which these new insecticides offered , little thought was given to any possible chain reaction which might follow . |
| 30 | It was this last point which at the time led to some discomfort about OD . |