Example sentences of "it was " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first time our national and international network had gathered together in one place and made us all realise just how much the work has grown . ’ |
| 2 | Even a weekly visit by a local authority home help — when it was finally arranged — was not enough . |
| 3 | Basically every day is an effort , that 's the reality , and there 's a great tendency to want life to be as it was . |
| 4 | I have far fewer friends and I am partially sighted , which makes me a lot more vulnerable ; but whatever happens physically , I have always said that it was what happened mentally that mattered . |
| 5 | It was no particular shock when I found out ; I had expected the test to be positive . |
| 6 | Even a weekly visit by a local authority home help when it was finally arranged was not enough . |
| 7 | Basically every day is an effort , that 's the reality , and there 's a great tendency to want life to be as it was . |
| 8 | I have far few friends and I am partially sighted , which makes me a lot more vulnerable ; but whatever happens physically , I have always said that it was what happened mentally that mattered . |
| 9 | Until recently it was reckoned that men and women on average had sex with 6 different people in their lifetime . |
| 10 | That 's the reality ; you want life to be as it was . |
| 11 | However , it was disappointing that a new international instrument on ‘ disappearances ’ was held over for further study . |
| 12 | On the highly publicized issue in AI 's December report of the baby deaths , Amnesty said that although its team was shown alleged mass graves of babies , it was not established how they had died and the team found no reliable evidence that Iraqi forces had caused the deaths of babies by removing them or ordering their removal from incubators . |
| 13 | In this , its 300th anniversary year , its role as human rights watchdog is as vital now as ever it was . |
| 14 | Adherence to this stated principle has never faltered , but other areas of concern took precedence and it was not until the late 1970s that this area of work was developed . |
| 15 | Even when I went to prison it was n't explained to me . |
| 16 | Some states even go to the trouble of having two switches , one a ‘ dummy ’ , so that everyone can say , ‘ it was n't me who actually killed him ’ . |
| 17 | It was an extremely sensitive matter , they were told . |
| 18 | But the woman said he would simply not risk meeting her — it was too dangerous . |
| 19 | It was a very long journey right across the Atlas mountains and down to the edge of the desert . |
| 20 | The increase was even felt to be too great : in 1964 , when British groups reached 212 , it was decided to slow down the growth in the UK — not to ‘ act upon the ephemeral enthusiasms of an odd individual ’ , but to go for quality . |
| 21 | In London , it was a rather different story , since the literature available needed discrimination , much of it being historical and iconographic , establishing data of little interest to the art student . |
| 22 | It was in 1936 that the first American edition of Lionello Venturi 's History of Art Criticism was published , containing material which could equally have found a place in a book about art history . |
| 23 | At the beginning of Surrealism it was argued that there was no Surrealist painting , but this dogma was soon reversed . |
| 24 | For the latter catalogue Barr chose the Surrealist writer Georges Hugnet to write a historical essay , but it was Barr 's intelligent advocacy and choice of works that made the show such a significant affair . |
| 25 | It was the fifth of those lectures he gave from 1769 to 1790 , known as his fifteen discourses . |
| 26 | It was wittily said by a bright genius , who observed another to labour in the composition of a discourse he was to deliver in public , that such a painstaker was fitter to make a pulpit than to preach in it . |
| 27 | A different sort of response to art is to use it as a means of learning more about the society in which it was produced ; this may be felt by a theoretician to be more important than to know the artist 's intentions , which , it can be argued , are determined by society . |
| 28 | It was a medium of the grand form and of the surface , whether polychrome or monochrome ; it was not a positive medium of the middle forms , like oak , or even usually of the assertive instrument , as bronze can be . |
| 29 | It was a medium of the grand form and of the surface , whether polychrome or monochrome ; it was not a positive medium of the middle forms , like oak , or even usually of the assertive instrument , as bronze can be . |
| 30 | Animal Painting in Britain was the title of a book by Basil Taylor , where he explained in his first chapter that the topic had been neglected since it was either assumed to be about sporting pictures , or about pictures of horses by such specialists as Sartorius . |