Example sentences of "[be] [adj] that it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its academic success had been such that it had become progressively less progressive , its original zeal swamped by the fee-paying prosperous solid Northern conservatism of parents and offspring : it had become a bastion of respectability , its one-time principles upheld by stray survivors like Doddridge , who appeared blithely not to notice that at election time the entire school , with one or two flamboyant exceptions , howled its enthusiasm for the Tory Party . |
| 2 | But had it not been that actual set of people — Sam Phillips , the band , Elvis and The Jordanaires — the chemistry might not have been such that it worked . |
| 3 | I am confident that it contributed more than anything else to my recovery . |
| 4 | ‘ We were pleased with the way our campaign went , and we are sure that it helped to improve sales at a difficult time . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sad that it folded , but it 's come at a good time , ’ she tells me . |
| 6 | Well I , I remember once going into er a British restaurant because it was my birthday and there was trifle on the menu and trifle was some sort of weird jelly thing that was thi instead of sponge it was stale bread and I think it was sort of stewed apple and mock cream but the fact that it it was my birthday and it was trifle you know I just sort of sat there like a queen but I think I 'm sure that it tasted quite revolting . |
| 7 | Who could be sure that it had been positioned correctly , that the first thick black line was exactly three feet and six inches from the green tiles of the floor ? |
| 8 | While BT can be pleased that it bought into McCaw at a much lower price than today 's going rate and that it will be difficult for other overseas companies to enter the US domestic market , it will be some time before its investment begins to yield a return . |
| 9 | But he will have been worried that it took four fine saves from John Lukic to keep City out . |
| 10 | It would be sensible to cut off most of her hair , but so much of it had grown when her parents were alive that it seemed somehow unfaithful to their memory to scissor it all away . |
| 11 | Cabinet members were tight-lipped and unsmiling as they emerged from Downing Street , but MPs were convinced that it had been a stormy session , with ministers bitterly fighting their corners in what has been described as the most stringent public spending round for years . |
| 12 | They were adamant that it had been clear all along , they 'd suspected something from the start . |
| 13 | She had chased it out of the house in February when one of her grandchildren was visiting ; and it is possible that it spent the night in the house during the week of the March sighting , as there was a very strong smell in the dining room the following morning . |
| 14 | It is possible that it came from the east of the Frankish confederacy , rather than the Rhineland . |
| 15 | Precise details of the evidence presented at that meeting have not yet been revealed but it is clear that it proved inconclusive . |
| 16 | Curran is convinced that it produced a ‘ muted radicalism ’ but it would be equally justified to claim that the Mirror had to change because it could not portray the 1950s and 1960s in the language or imagery of the 1940s . |
| 17 | It is arguable that it did . |
| 18 | I 'm , I 'm , if there any question over it , the reason why I said ten days I 'm already sitting in London for , until the end of next week and therefore if there were any question , it 's obvious that it came before me , and that |
| 19 | It is obvious that it thought the enlightened amateur , like Hope himself , was the ideal judge . |
| 20 | It is extraordinary that it took so long for the importance of this to be realised in Britain . |
| 21 | If you know that I have just bought an angora woollie at half price in a sale , it is unlikely that it came from Boots the chemist . |
| 22 | However the wealth may have been produced it is evident that it had created a rich landowning class . |
| 23 | Although there is no written evidence to substantiate this , no major repairs or maintenance were carried out on the machinery , and it is evident that it performed well from the start . |
| 24 | But it is proud that it eschewed the now-or-never mentality that drove others to make acquisitions in the run-up to Europe 's single market in financial services . |
| 25 | Neither Taskopruzade nor Mecdi gives any clue concerning the date of Molla Arab 's appointment to the Muftilik ( beyond the fact that it is implicit that it occurred in the reign of Bayezid II ) , although both state that he died as Mufti of Istanbul in 901/1495–6 . |
| 26 | Arsenal boss George Graham is annoyed that it took so long for him to be told about Limpar 's current ankle injury . |
| 27 | Assistant Chief Constable John McKenzie Moore said : ‘ It 's worrying that it turned up . ’ |
| 28 | This account of the treaty may , as Florence claims , have been a lie , but it , or something like it , could well have been what Cnut preferred people to believe , for he may have been aware that it had not been unusual within the West Saxon dynasty for brother to follow brother : it was the succession of King Æthelwulf 's sons in turn which brought Alfred to the throne in 871 , despite the fact that his brother Æthelred I had male issue . |
| 29 | The Tribunal found , however , that no employee had ever been told that the practice could result in dismissal and the practice had continued , although management trying to impose the change may not have been aware that it continued . |
| 30 | Few will previously have been aware that it started out leaning the other way , then righted itself , and — after a 100-year gap when the money ran out — went into reverse . |