Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] that it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then , Bella 's home-help came out of the bungalow and it was no use any more trying to pretend that it was n't happening … . |
| 2 | It was no doubt less advanced in its industrial organisation than Lancashire , where the last of the surviving handloom weavers were absorbed into other employment in the 1850s , but it would be unrealistic to claim that it was not industrial . |
| 3 | On 26 June he records shooting a wattle-cheeked honeyeater ‘ on the ranges near the Upper Torrens ’ ; he ‘ killed a Bittern on the 1st July near the Murray , above Gleeson 's Station ’ ; collected red throats ‘ about forty miles north of Lake Alexandrina ’ ; spotted a white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus ‘ near the bend of the river Murray ’ ( perhaps it was this remark that led some to guess that it was the great west bend to which Gould referred ) ; and shot a pink robin in ‘ a deep ravine under Mount Lofty ’ ( this was the last time an example of this species , Petroica rodinogaster was seen in South Australia , although one or two reliable observers said they had seen specimens in the area many years previously ) . |
| 4 | BCRS members of all people will understand something of the geography and communications of the area , and will , I am sure , be interested to know that it was to the Stone House that our Secretary was taken after his recent heart attack . ) |
| 5 | Secondly , the buyer may find it easier to establish that it was not a contractual document . |
| 6 | Nor is it sensible to wish that it were otherwise , since raptures , aesthetic , erotic , intellectual , mystical , in which the spontaneous floods the whole of consciousness , can lift us to heights of awareness beyond our ordinary capacities . |
| 7 | Whether or not that was the intent of the regulations — and I am willing to believe that it was not the Minister 's intent — that has been the net effect of the way in which the three-week period was cut off due to the way that the regulations were tabled . |
| 8 | But setting her misgivings about Tommaso himself aside , Caterina decided that she had been quite wrong to think that it was she who had caught his attention . |
| 9 | He found , for example , that one company was realising that the whaling situation had been allowed to become a terrible indictment of all those involved in the industry , the Governments concerned and the International Whaling Commission , but I am afraid to say that it was the attitudes of the other two companies that prevailed in Japan for the ensuing years . |
| 10 | In fact , he was willing to admit that it was . |
| 11 | Says Charlotte , ‘ I 'm embarrassed to admit that it was an agony aunt who finally dispelled my end-of-teenage doldrums . |
| 12 | But I was delighted to see that it was in fact my hat . |
| 13 | Tamar had been dismayed to discover that it was the custom , among the upper classes , to employ a wetnurse for babies . |
| 14 | On the third day , September 26th , I saw a sail , and was delighted to discover that it was an English ship , on its way home to England . |
| 15 | It is easy to forget that it was here , millions of years ago , that our forebears first appeared . |
| 16 | So was it too much to believe that it was Kemp that Stratton had seen — about five o'clock , had n't he said ? |
| 17 | She had the joint X-rayed on Wednesday night and was somewhat relieved to learn that it was merely a bad case of bruising . |
| 18 | It is hard to imagine that it was the cause of much sadness . |
| 19 | It is hard to believe that it was a right judgement about all the other people possible . |
| 20 | Standing on the beautifully tended grass of Jesus Green and watching a throng of tourists , language students and local people enjoying the tranquillity of the lock , it is hard to believe that it was built for commerce rather than leisure . |
| 21 | Alfred 's shop looked as though it had been closed and deserted for months ; it was hard to believe that it was only three days since a few people , at least , had been entering through the rickety door with its small glass panes to buy patent medicines or seek advice . |
| 22 | The family historian who visits such a place would find it hard to believe that it was once the home of a mere waggoner if he had not seen old photographs that show its condition before the First World War . |
| 23 | It was hard to disagree that it was necessary . |
| 24 | Taking into account the fact that they made fewer comments about individual types of credit than men , women 's comments were more likely to be that they did not know how a type of credit worked than men 's ; and less likely to say that it was easy to understand and use . |
| 25 | Where post-conciliar theology will say that the Eucharist gives the Church its unity , pre-conciliar theology would undoubtedly have been most likely to declare that it was the papacy that did so . |
| 26 | ( Davidson , 1980c , d ; Kim , 1973 ) However , it is as natural to say that it was the fact that the switch was flipped that caused the windscreen wipers to start to work . |
| 27 | We can say that the instructor 's braking caused it , and it is natural to say that it was a cause of the stopping . |
| 28 | One 11 year old who was asked about the shape of the Earth replied that he knew he was supposed to say that it was shaped like a sphere , but that he thought people only say that so that it would fit easily on a globe : |
| 29 | It would seem reasonable to suggest that it was this waking preoccupation of his that Qused his subconscious to produce the relevant dream . |
| 30 | ' How the Holy Spirit spoke at this time is unclear , but it seems reasonable to suppose that it was through a prophecy or exhortation given through another of the leaders . |