Example sentences of "[noun] was [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A feature of early denudation chronology was that it tended to concentrate upon particular areas and that the record deduced for those areas tended to exercise an unduly significant influence upon the way in which new areas were interpreted . |
| 2 | The result was that it had been increased only twice and now stood at the princely sum of £30 . |
| 3 | For many years I have experience severe rain leakage through the canvas tilt on my Series III.1 once made the mistake of coating another vehicle 's tilt with polyurethane paint but the result was that it hung in tatters within a year as it became brittle . |
| 4 | One hypothesis which had gained wide acceptance and which was consistent with the damage to the aircraft was that it had been hit in error by a NATO missile . |
| 5 | The next call from the aircraft was as it crossed the BN having cleared for an ILS approach ; the call said that Invicta 435 was turning outbound again and would report again at the MN beacon . |
| 6 | The conclusions of one other major research was that it had substantial social implication of personal family in community lives so these papers were discussed in great detail . |
| 7 | Erm the point about the regional census study was that it did a reasonably good job of analyzing the present situation , but not a very good job of the projections . |
| 8 | The real clincher was that it made better tea and beer than the pump muck . |
| 9 | The beauty of Indirect Rule was that it created an administrative situation in which personal influence was , in theory at any rate , the administrator 's only resource . |
| 10 | Another effect was that it engineered a prevailing mood of despair about the quality of urban and industrial life which in turn bred a determination to rebuild and sweep away the past when the time came — which it did , in the 1940s when town planning was able to assume the mantle of the new provider . |
| 11 | Ken Pitt : ‘ But the big value of that album was that it brought David 's work to the attention of a lot of important people . |
| 12 | To Welford Beaton the great weakness of the movie industry was that it had been ‘ born without reasoning faculties ’ and had failed subsequently to develop any : since birth , he suggested , the industry had ‘ allowed the box-office to do its thinking for it ’ . |
| 13 | One of the key main objections to the Accord was that it failed to offer sufficient protection to Quebec 's English-speaking minority . |
| 14 | What distinguished my article , through , from the observations of those trail-blazing precursors was that it acknowledged the presence not only of the ( nonsemiological , non- ‘ signreading ’ ) public but also of the collective bliss which , whatever my own sense of alienation , the theme park experience generated among the public . |
| 15 | What was perhaps most significant about this product range was that it opened a debate about ways of using new technology which would enhance human intelligence rather than diminish it . |
| 16 | Another major concession in the draft law was that it made no provision for stationing Chinese troops in Macao after 1999 . |
| 17 | One of the few differences between beat policing and assembly-line work was that it contained a measure of unpredictability . |
| 18 | One of the problems perceived in Dr Ting 's autocratic management was that it does not endear him to the more easy-going American physicists ; and there were few large American institutions taking part in L* . |
| 19 | And the suggestion to this Committee was that it looked , that it looked further at the five hundred thousand pounds guideline that 's been set to address the apparent shortfall on community care funding , and also that you should look at further service reductions and their implications erm , of reductions of a further two hundred and fifty thousand , and those are again picked up later in the paper . |
| 20 | Viewed in the long term , the importance of the Expenditure Committee was that it helped to persuade the Commons as a whole of the need for a more comprehensive effort to review the processes of public administration . |
| 21 | The importance of the amendment by the 1988 Criminal Justice Act was that it added the words from serious harm from him' to the end of the sentence only a custodial sentence would be adequate to protect the public' . |
| 22 | The other important feature of this Act was that it legitimized expenditure on secondary and technical schools , and thereby stimulated the growth of this element of state education . |
| 23 | Its main attraction before independence was that it provided an antidote to the Government propaganda of Mambo Leo , but it looked very shabby by comparison . |
| 24 | However , the question was whether it did so in a way that was unfairly prejudicial to Mr Nicholas . |
| 25 | All he did know at this moment was that it seemed a shame a girl such as Maggie here , with brains , because she was no fool , and a talent such as she had , should be encased in a body that held no appeal . |
| 26 | The place was as it had always been , a downland in miniature , a terrain of small green hills on which little dolmens had been raised , pink granite , white marble , a slab or two of grey stone . |
| 27 | Its one claim to fame was that it agitated a sudden outbreak of Northern Soul style dancing in the trendier clubs of Britain . |
| 28 | The difference was that it took a year before Chamberlain 's words came back to haunt him . |
| 29 | The only difference was that it said Phd at the end of it |
| 30 | The major difference was that it did not operate in a context of contest . |