Example sentences of "[that] it was [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Somehow , we had to come up with a method of telling the body that it was daytime when it thought it was nightime and vice versa , ’ he says . |
| 2 | The same month , a United Nations commission , set up as part of the peace agreement , said that it was d'Aubuisson who had arranged the murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero in 1980 . |
| 3 | Earlier , Sharon Freda McLean denied killing Linda McMullen and said that it was co-defendant Lisa Burgess who started to kick and stamp on her in the Wrexham Peace Gardens . |
| 4 | It would seem that it was Hazelden who sold to the planners at MEHQ the idea of delivering a final knock-out blow to the two main German supply ports , Tobruk and Benghazi . |
| 5 | He noticed , too , that it was stone floored , and immediately he took in the feeling of clinical cleanliness . |
| 6 | She also told him that it was prayer that had brought him to her . |
| 7 | The possibility that it was industrialisation that destroyed the stable and peaceful life of pre-industrial Britain does not appear to hold up either . |
| 8 | Looking at it he saw that it was Mrs Wright 's . |
| 9 | In the market , she was told that it was Mrs Browning 's old hero , the French Emperor Louis Napoleon , who had landed at Genoa and pledged himself to help the Italians drive out the Austrians . |
| 10 | And if she did , she would look into Carrie 's mind with her witch 's eyes and know that she knew that it was Mrs Gotobed weeping upstairs , and that she was remembering what Mr Evans had said . |
| 11 | Jill returned , saying that it was Mrs Mellings , for her father , and it took Alice some moments to realise that this must be her mother , not the new Mrs Mellings , who at this moment would be already on her way to the pleasures of a weekend in Kent . |
| 12 | Friedman and Schwartz , however , claimed that it was changes in the nominal money supply which caused changes in money national income ( recall the mechanism described in Chapter 21 ) and , once again , they appealed to empirical evidence to support their view . |
| 13 | She had eaten too many cookies at the tea and was feeling nauseated in consequence , but told herself wrathfully that it was Boyd 's disgusting ways that had done it . |
| 14 | It is a curious joke of history that it was Stalin who gave Lithuania its capital city ( between the wars it was in Poland ) , and Tito who , in order to weaken great-Serbian chauvinism , created a much larger Croatia with a much larger Serbian minority . |
| 15 | David Cooper of Genetic Resources Action International , based in Barcelona , pointed out that it was farmers in West Africa who first noted the resistance of some varieties of cowpea to insects and who nurtured superior varieties that carried this characteristic . |
| 16 | At the edge of the water Wilkie 's girl cried out that it was lunch , they were going to eat lunch . |
| 17 | Morpurgo — Harry did not doubt that it was Morpurgo — was a tall , awkward-looking figure in beret , muddied boiler suit and galoshes , feeding the incinerator with needless energy , forcing the rake-held bundles down into its smoking contents with disquieting relish , with an intensity , indeed , which warned Harry from the first that something was amiss . |
| 18 | Only at the last moment , when he 'd been recognized in turn , did Zen realize that it was Daniele Miletti . |
| 19 | The only difference , he assured me , was that it was cream rather than white . |
| 20 | If we look back at what was spent in 1978-79 under the last Labour Government , we find that it was £3.7 billion , but we are now talking about a budget for next year of approaching £12.5 billion , which is a real increase of 19 per cent . |
| 21 | Ignorant of the fact that it was Battersea enamel she lit the wick beneath it , well soaked in methylated spirits . |
| 22 | Fleischmann said that one of the referees had said that it was nonsense and that the reaction of this referee had made him nervous about the validity of their experiment . |
| 23 | Mr Maclean insisted that it was nonsense to suggest there had been any contamination of the food chain or to make comparisons to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster . |
| 24 | The door to the dressing room opened and to her surprise she saw that it was Hugo . |
| 25 | There is some evidence that it was Snowden who suggested the formula of the ‘ doctor 's mandate ’ , at a Cabinet meeting on 5 October , under which the component parts of the National Government were each to issue their own manifestos , with a separate personal appeal from the Prime Minister , According to Neville Chamberlain , ‘ Snowden … produced the suggestion that the Prime Minister should issue his own manifesto asking for a free hand [ i.e. on tariffs ] and the two Party leaders should each issue their own programmes and to our astonishment this was at once accepted by the Liberals , ' Amery , who perhaps got the information from Chamberlain , wrote in his diary on 6 October , ‘ Apparently when the deadlock seemed most complete Snowden suggested that the PM should issue his own manifesto , each of the other party leaders issuing theirs . ' |
| 26 | On either side there was open parkland grazed by a herd of red deer — or , now that it was December and the males were apart , two herds . |
| 27 | I think your difficulty arises from the fact that if you choose someone who 's alive , they 'll deny it , and if you indicate that it was Dr Wetherby , whose bedroom on my plan is next door to yours , you immediately establish a connection with him which will interest us . |
| 28 | She was wise enough to understand , now that her fear was leaving her , that it was Dr Neil 's very real concern which had made him so sharp with her when he had found out who it was he had rescued . |
| 29 | I knew that it made , besides such things as textiles , the remarkable Oerlikon guns and that it was part of the Oerlikon-Buhrle Group , employing some 40 000 people , mostly in Europe , but also in the US and Japan . |
| 30 | The covert reasons why the scheme drew widespread support from Cardiff solicitors was that it was part of an internal power struggle . |