Example sentences of "[be] that it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is n't even known where on Krakatoa the eruption was centred , but the chances are that it was Perboewetan , since the lava flows in the crater looked extremely fresh when they were examined in the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | The chances are that it was a bar , somewhere not too far away . |
| 3 | For most of the two centuries since that phenomenon began the conventional explanation has been that it was the new technology ( the spinning-jenny , the new weaving frames , and the steam engine ) which gave rise to the factory . |
| 4 | The two are entirely compatible if it is remembered that one of the popular theories of the nature of the state itself has always been that it was founded on a contract between the individual members of a society . |
| 5 | In April , I did point out that if English Heritage ( the body responsible for the preservation of England 's built heritage ) were transferred to the new Department of National Heritage ( which is now the case ) , very careful consideration would need to be given to how planning is coped with , because one of the strengths of English Heritage had been that it was placed within the Department of the Environment where government planning takes place . |
| 6 | The real objection to the use of the statement may in any event have been that it was self-serving rather than that it was protected by privilege , which could have been waived by the defendant . |
| 7 | When war was first declared , and she was co-opted into the military , he imagined that her first reaction had been that it was typical of these men to mess up her promising career like that . |
| 8 | The brief answer might be that it was an unintended consequence of a largely implicit and undebated policy decision . |
| 9 | It may be that it was their actions that tipped the balance for Rank , and decided him against pushing on with his ambitions . |
| 10 | It could well be that it was the very fact of the fading of life enjoyment which is experienced with the responsibilities of adulthood and parenthood — and this could have affected the very primitive man just as much as it does modern man — which precipitated the very first of man 's attempts to take control of his future and the progress of evolution , by becoming ‘ civilised ’ . |
| 11 | If indeed this was how he happened upon verre anglais , it could well be that it was in England , not Spain , that Dom Pérignon rediscovered the cork . |
| 12 | Another view would be that it was a hail and farewell community , and while it was together it was open all hours . |
| 13 | One reason for this may be that it was overtaken — and , perhaps , undermined — by political developments . |
| 14 | It might be that it was the incessant closeness to blood , death and suffering that brought out these sentiments in men who had , on the whole , been raised in an education system that rejected such responses as feminine and unmasculine , and that promoted an abstract conception of justice and a stern morality of obedience to rules . |
| 15 | I think in the past the , the response from the County Council would be that it was n't directly related to industrial relations . |
| 16 | The implication of the evidence as a whole could be that it was only in the reign of Ecgfrith that Northumbrian overlordship embraced the Strathclyde Britons and the Scots . |
| 17 | It may be that it was the removal of Oswine which enabled Oswiu and Penda to treat on these equal terms . |
| 18 | Among the West Saxons it may be that it was Aethelbald 's support which enabled Aethelheard to defeat the aetheling , Oswald , and that this established both Aethelheard and his brother , Cuthred , who subsequently succeeded Aethelheard in 739 , as Aethelbald 's dependants or at least obliged them to make territorial concessions . |
| 19 | It may be that it was because he was so secure in East Anglia that Offa was subsequently able to involve himself so much more forcefully in the south-east . |
| 20 | It may even be that it was done to make possible the appointment of this particular scholar , a native of Bosnasarayi who had taught to the level . |
| 21 | Asik Celebi says no more about Molla Fenari 's fate , but it may well be that it was alter this experience that Molla Fenari went to Karaman . |
| 22 | It is not at all unlikely that at the conquest , Mehmed II appointed someone mufti in the newly conquered city ; and since the sources seem not to mention the appointment of anyone else to the post , it may possibly be that it was made an for Hizir Bey . |
| 23 | The suspicion must be that it was a combination of excessive speed and the failure of the driver or guard to apply the brakes early enough that caused the accident . |
| 24 | The answer may be that it was the later decision . ) |
| 25 | it it came to be that it was the older men usually that were asked to do it I mean the people I suppose maybe felt it was more suitable to have older folk coming in to their houses . |
| 26 | It might be that it was just a little bit open and they think that somebody 's tampered with it so then they , they open |
| 27 | When I spoke to some of these women alone much later I asked them why Asian women often reacted like this ; their answers were that it was good for a man 's Izzat . |
| 28 | He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters , protesting — in this case to the journalist William Archer — that ‘ The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament & unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general , that it was immoral , & that characters who recant their opinions & come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk . ’ |
| 29 | The two main reasons given for this were that it was too ambitious and it was too far removed from bureaux experience until too late in its development . |
| 30 | Suggestions were that it was to rendezvous with another English force crossing into the Middle March ; or to meet up with Dunbar on the East March and convince him to join Balliol actively . |