Example sentences of "[adj] was [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The danger with this was that it caused believers to look to their own faith rather than to Christ alone for the assurance of their salvation . |
| 2 | The justification for this was that it saved the skyline of the Granite City . |
| 3 | This was because it amounted to a transfer back to X of property in the car ( because Y 's cheque had not been met ) in return for X waiving any right to enforce payment from Y. At the time of the repossession , X was unaware of Y's sale to Z and thus by repossessing the car with Y 's acquiescence , X obtained ownership of it by virtue of section 25(1) of the 1893 Act ( i.e. section 24 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 ) . |
| 4 | As already noted , the attraction of monetarism for the new Conservative leadership by 1979 was that it promised a method of controlling inflation by means , as it were , of an automatic pilot ; there would be no need for government to compromise its authority with producer groups . |
| 5 | What was striking about the instant response to Stanley 's emancipation proposals in 1833 was that it came from Howick , until recently in charge , at the Colonial Office , of the emancipation question , and that his strongest dissent arose from the failure of the plan to chart a move as soon as possible directly from slavery to free labour without bothering with an apprenticeship stage . |
| 6 | I assured her that all was as it seemed , and that I was not under suspicion of murder , and that I was indeed doing all I could to help the police . |
| 7 | The most important was that it offered far more opportunity professionally . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , what was important was that it occurred because Leeds were caught out ( again ) at the back and Jones was thundering in . |
| 9 | So um that kind of thing b according to Campbell may be one of the reasons why the Cleveland scandal was so scandalous was because it intersected with a number of cultural fears we have about the relationship between sexuality and the anus for some reason . |
| 10 | What made the result so glorious was that it epitomized the essence of steeplechasing : at its most prestigious moment the sport had returned to its rural roots and shown that the humblest contestants can win the biggest prizes . |
| 11 | Hardly a rally was over two strokes and what was more disappointing was that it followed the brilliant final at Brighton . |
| 12 | It turned out that our candidate , who came to address us one evening , knew my Aunt Kit and had the greatest admiration for her , even though he also knew that the only reason why she had not been offered another , safer constituency after 1945 was that it had become too obvious she was unable to keep off the drink . |
| 13 | Rich roared out of a conflagration of overlapping , overspilling , competing and confusing flailing emotions in which little was as it seemed . |
| 14 | Although Pendero had finished strongly at Ascot , that was because it had been a truly run race and the leaders had finished tired . |
| 15 | Labour had not won the argument over how to run a capitalist economy better than the Conservatives , so it could not take on its detractors — and that was because it had not thought through how it should be done . |
| 16 | That was because it enabled the whole rugby fraternity to participate , with financial reward being the last thing on anyone 's mind . |
| 17 | It was unoccupied , but whether that was because it went unnoticed or because every family was so large it was never taken by anyone , I do n't know . |
| 18 | Apart from the hurt feelings of departing managers , the most common reason for worrying about America 's spate of takeovers in the 1980s was that it pushed firms heavily into debt . |
| 19 | One of the problems that the Conservative government faced in the 1980s was that it depended on over 400 local authorities in England alone to implement large parts of its policies , for example housing , education and social services . |