Example sentences of "was [adv] [vb pp] that it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The need for war , then , was fairly generally accepted , although it was widely recognized that it brought destruction and death . |
| 2 | No organization claimed responsibility and it was widely speculated that it had been a mistake by ETA . |
| 3 | To uncouple , the tug drew away and the leg was so balanced that it dropped to earth by gravity : if this leg was , through any reason tight , and it failed to function , the trailer fell to the ground , and so cast its load . |
| 4 | By the end of the nineteenth-century , the biological model of sexuality was so constructed that it had become perfectly coherent to argue that excessive sexual desire in a woman was pathological . |
| 5 | In the textile industry a number of technical inventions produced an increase in output ; a way had been found of using coal , in the form of coke , to smelt iron ; and the steam engine was so improved that it provided a new source of power . |
| 6 | The Ethiopian Parliament was so exasperated that it passed a unanimous resolution in 1968 begging Emperor Hailé Sellassié not to visit Italy until the monument 's return . |
| 7 | It was only because it was repeatedly interrupted that it did not become all-pervasive , and ultimately intolerable . |