Example sentences of "[vb past] it [be] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brazil had no such push factors at work : when capital fled it was more because of the debt crisis than its cause . |
| 2 | The question for an Industrial Tribunal is not whether one of them was innocent but whether you carried out such reasonable investigation as you could and you reasonably believed it was either or both and dismissed them both because of that belief . |
| 3 | He did not know how much had been paid but believed it was less than £50m . |
| 4 | And the London-based scientist said he believed it was more than a coincidence that the same colony seemed to have been affected by a second strain of the gizzard worm infection which killed 137 birds last year . |
| 5 | Oliver said he guessed it was partly because Cobalt had led the sort of life where being thumped over the head with a bottle was not a unique experience . |
| 6 | I decided it was just because she had n't mattered that it had n't been worth shocking her . |
| 7 | I saw you disappear in this direction , and decided it was now or never . ’ |
| 8 | She 'd offered to lend him the money to have the bike fixed , and when he accepted she said , ‘ I 've broken something precious , have n't I ? ’ and knelt in the street among the bits of glass , looking up at him as if she understood it was more than a lamp she had smashed . |
| 9 | He could n't understand how his world had collapsed and although he said to himself , several times a day , that it was all the fault of the theatre , that sick , all-pervading fever that seemed to turn everyone foolish and mad , in his heart he knew it was more than that . |
| 10 | I tried to tell myself it was purely physical and you were just an object of desire , but I knew it was more than that . ’ |
| 11 | She had an approved menstrual calendar and knew it was more or less — or at least with an acceptable risk factor — her safe time of the month . |
| 12 | Claudia knew it was there and so did Dana , though she would n't admit it , and that bond was telling Claudia that Dana was in trouble . |
| 13 | she knew it was there and then she forgot about it and she was chatting . |
| 14 | But really he knew it was only because he was n't Jewish . |
| 15 | Both babies would smile stickily when they saw me over the edge of the cot , which was gratifying in a way , but I knew it was only because they were programmed that way , like public relations men . |
| 16 | Topaz knew it was then or never . |
| 17 | This , see I just thought it was just cos , you know , and he kept stressing it , which of the following is not a swimming stroke , breast stroke , butterfly or bird crawl . |
| 18 | Ruth stared down at it and wondered why she had bought it and thought it was probably because it contrasted so sharply with what she had been through on this trip . |
| 19 | Carrie thought it was partly because they were going to have a farewell tea at Druid 's Bottom . |
| 20 | Unnatural conditions became natural and as time passed it was more and more difficult to believe that there was any other life beyond that which went on inside the wire . |
| 21 | But when at last Henry spoke it was mildly and quietly enough , though his eyes , deep-set and haggard under their drawn brows , looked curiously opaque , like grey glass with no light behind it of lantern or sky , and his hands , slightly gnarled like the hands of an older man , gripped hard at the arms of his chair . |
| 22 | When he spoke it was abruptly and with a complete change of subject : ‘ It seems that the little hut at Trebyan meant a lot to your brothers . ’ |
| 23 | That one of Selby 's you know it was fine until they put an extension in just er a key station as soon as they did that this one started acting up , so he said it 's only since we did that , he said it happened the day after we put that in , I said okay , disconnected it , still did it , disconnected it at the , end here , still did it , erased it from the program so it did n't even know it existed , still did it |
| 24 | But Mr Michael Fallon , the Conservative candidate , said it was right that a quarter of the receipts should go on housing while threequarters went towards repayment of debt . |
| 25 | But he said it was only when Dr Philip Owen , a Home Office toxicologist , told him on Jan 16 that he learned Mr Threlfall had taken a fatal dose of 90 dextropropoxyphene tablets . |
| 26 | Lord Lane , the Lord Chief Justice , described the case 's circumstances as ‘ wholly exceptional ’ and said it was only when Mr Butler was driven into a corner that he drew the sword in self defence . |
| 27 | To soften the blow I said it was only because I was held in such high esteem in the football world that I had to get rid of any player or , as in his case , friend , who showed any sign of being a no-hoper . |