Example sentences of "[det] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Rich roared out of a conflagration of overlapping , overspilling , competing and confusing flailing emotions in which little was as it seemed . |
| 6 | Although Pendero had finished strongly at Ascot , that was because it had been a truly run race and the leaders had finished tired . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | That was because it enabled the whole rugby fraternity to participate , with financial reward being the last thing on anyone 's mind . |
| 9 | 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 . |