Example sentences of "that it was [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For no special reason except that it was something new to show him and it avoided the long grind out to the airport the brief shuttle flight and another cab queue . |
| 2 | That it was something new is further indicated by Sidonius 's extraordinary description of Syagrius as " a new Solon of the Burgundians in interpreting law " , implying that a Roman aristocrat had devoted himself to drafting edicts for Chilperic and his Burgundians . |
| 3 | For a time she had even innocently believed that Luke 's father 's recent death had been responsible for the anger she had sensed in him , until she gradually grew aware that it was something personal , directed at her , his dealings with most of the station 's personnel characterised by charm , his impatience with any inadequacies purely professional . |
| 4 | All you could feel was that it was something bony . |
| 5 | He had no doubt that it was something devious , and her tone indicated she had already made her choice for him . |
| 6 | To us , the black laver bread looked dreadful , poisonous , but we understood and respected that it was something Welsh , something special . |
| 7 | ‘ After a while I stopped blaming myself and simply accepted the fact that it was nothing personal , no major failing on my part , it was simply the way Claire was . |
| 8 | A second difficulty with this most obvious method of testing is that , even if a preponderance of Protestants were to emerge , it would not follow that it was their religious convictions that supplied the motivation for their science . |
| 9 | Would the rest of Britain simply accept that it was their democratic right to self-determination that was being exercised ? |
| 10 | The children learned from the example of adults that it was their supreme duty to protect the Royal Family from the degradation of other people 's curiosity . |
| 11 | Although a degree of corruption was inevitable , it seems in Æthelred 's reign to have gone so far beyond what many of his subjects considered acceptable that it was their main preoccupation when they considered having him back . |
| 12 | Penny knew at once that it was her lost budgerigar . |
| 13 | Inevitably there was a lot of sycophantic non sense around her too.Thus when she made a blood donation , the director of the clinic declared that the room would remain a shrine for her and everyone who now had a transfusion would insist that it was her divine blood that flowed and miraculously and potently into his veins . |
| 14 | She joked that it was her favourite occupation . |
| 15 | Zenaida the sorceress jumped on her from behind , one hand at her throat , the other yanking at her hair ; she screeched , and the bird flapping over her head screeched with her , but Carmellina could tell from the look in its pale green eye that it was her true love under a spell from the wicked enchantress , and she fell to her knees and clutched the skirts of Zenaida ( what was she underneath ? |
| 16 | However , it made clear that it tried to keep the duration of such layoffs to a minimum , and suggested also that it was its industrial , not its secretarial/office staff , who were most likely to be affected by them ( interview with Manpower ) . |
| 17 | There are rumours that it was his African neighbours who wanted him locked up . |
| 18 | He considered that it was his primary duty to be a divine and theologian rather than a political bishop . |
| 19 | However , she rejected the offer to return without her husband 's remains , insisting that it was his dying wish to receive " a simple soldier 's burial " in his country of origin . |
| 20 | Earlier he had been officially advised that it was his legal right to have his solicitor present ; but surprisingly Downes had taken no advantage of the offer . |
| 21 | In context it seems more likely that it was his impatient response to Lipchitz 's well-intentioned nannying . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , in 7 BC this neat arrangement was interfered with in order to honour Augustus by renaming the month Sextilis after him ( he believed that it was his lucky month ) and assigning to it the same number of days as the preceding month that had been renamed after his murdered great-uncle by Mark Antony . |
| 23 | Wright already has six this term and although statistics will show he was only second on the bill yesterday , discerning patrons will appreciate that it was his intuitive skills that lifted the depression of a scrappy first 30 minutes . |
| 24 | It is a measure of Mr Smith 's extraordinarily well-starred political horoscope that it was his quiet , determined recovery from his illness — rather than illness itself — that leaves the more lasting impression in one 's mind . |
| 25 | ‘ It is hard now to convince people that it was anything other than personal between us , ’ Taylor insisted . |
| 26 | Michael Kalisher QC told the jury : ‘ If you or I or even Nigel Mansell drove along that road at that speed no-one would suggest that it was anything other than reckless driving . ’ |
| 27 | Too little is known about Burhaneddin Haydar Herevi to enable one to decide what is meant by the title , however , and there is no other evidence to indicate either that he held an official post or , if so , that it was anything other than an ad hominem appointment . |
| 28 | She has no reason to believe that it was anything other than an accident . |
| 29 | She has no reason to believe that it was anything other than an accident . |
| 30 | However , at this distance from the monster , she could see that it was none other than her own tabby cat , which for some reason had grown to the size of a mammoth . |