Example sentences of "was [conj] it [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Film was nothing in itself but what had confirmed its worthlessness was that it seemed the exclusive property of a class of showmen who were direct descendants of the old fairground showmen . |
| 2 | The flaw in counsel 's argument was that it ignored the fact that the jury were required to consider the case against each accused separately . |
| 3 | The rationale of the putting-out system was that it enabled the merchant capitalist to draw on only as much labour as he needed at any given condition of the market . |
| 4 | An objection to the use of the defence in this case was that it enabled the court to evade the statutory prohibition on applying volenti non fit injuria . |
| 5 | Well that 's interesting the Kipsigies are er traditional people who live in Kenya and if they have , in other words er men have to pay a certain amount to the erm you know , woman if they 're gon na marry her and what they did was they study the and related it to the , to the girl that was actually getting married and what they found of course was that it fits the predictions of our theory er just as you 'd expect , given that the cultural things you have to allow for like , like for example in that most traditional cultures they like er women to be plump as we 'll see in the , in the actually fat is critical to female fertility and er so they might not have been plump , so what they did was they simply weighed the girls and they compared their , their , their weights with , with the , with the and sure enough strong correlation the fatter the girl , the bigger the . |
| 6 | One reason why the Peace Ballot was able to attract such enormous support was that it brought the LNU off the political fence . |
| 7 | Hardly a rally was over two strokes and what was more disappointing was that it followed the brilliant final at Brighton . |
| 8 | The importance of the amendment by the 1988 Criminal Justice Act was that it added the words from serious harm from him' to the end of the sentence only a custodial sentence would be adequate to protect the public' . |
| 9 | So , it was in the ordinary conduct of party politics by men in pursuit of power that expectations , aspirations and objectives were reduced to an apparent simplicity , to a crudity of choice for which all that could be said was that it represented the national will . |
| 10 | Perhaps the most unusual feature of the diagram was that it represented the figure as having a twin backbone . |
| 11 | A Roman Catholic scholar , Hans von Balthasar , recently observed that the weakness of his own church in the past was that it neglected the Bible , while concentrating too much on the teaching of the church . |
| 12 | Such examples apart , a consequence of the decline of cottage spinning and knitting was that it removed the earnings of children as well as of grown women . |
| 13 | In Athens the political equality of the citizens coexisted uneasily with economic inequality , as it continues to do today ; but the whole point of the democracy was that it gave the poor as well as the rich a part to play in governing the city . |
| 14 | One of the things that he objected to about a tradition of painting that was governed by a scientific , single viewpoint system of perspective was that it gave the spectator an incomplete picture or idea about the subject . |
| 15 | Its attraction was that it has the advantage of any competitive sport , that measurable results can be easily obtained . |
| 16 | Certainly the reputation of the outer office then was that it conspired the way other offices make tea . |
| 17 | Erm my understanding of the paper that we had for the seminar was that it discussed the nature of explanation . |
| 18 | What distinguished my article , through , from the observations of those trail-blazing precursors was that it acknowledged the presence not only of the ( nonsemiological , non- ‘ signreading ’ ) public but also of the collective bliss which , whatever my own sense of alienation , the theme park experience generated among the public . |
| 19 | One great advantage which he claimed for Realism was that it allowed the analyst to dispense with the motives and intentions of the decision-makers . |
| 20 | If one interpretation of the social contract was that it promised the development of the ‘ social wage ’ of state benefits and services in exchange for sacrifice on the side of wages and salaries , this became increasingly problematic after the government turned to the International Monetary Fund to help finance the balance of payments and bolster the pound . |
| 21 | Indeed the real significance of the Welfare State report was that it marked the beginning of the end not for the health service but for the CPRS . |
| 22 | The justification for this was that it saved the skyline of the Granite City . |
| 23 | A distinguishing feature of spinning when put out to the cottage women and children was that it created the possibility of increasing the money earnings of the family from an occupation distinct from that of the man . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Well I felt , I just did n't know what it was but it lacked the sort of charm that it had before . |
| 26 | That was because it enabled the whole rugby fraternity to participate , with financial reward being the last thing on anyone 's mind . |
| 27 | One involved the successful launch of its cookery book , Cooking to Please , and the other was because it won the contract to provide in-house catering to the main council sites for second time . |
| 28 | The next call from the aircraft was as it crossed the BN having cleared for an ILS approach ; the call said that Invicta 435 was turning outbound again and would report again at the MN beacon . |