Example sentences of "was [conj] it [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only advantage of being dumped by Clive was that it made this a lot simpler . |
| 2 | ‘ Thirty years ago Julian Huxley and Eliot Slater speculated that the reason why the disadvantageous schizophrenia gene was not progressively eliminated from the gene pool was that it conveyed some biological advantage such as resistance to infection . |
| 3 | The benefit of the system was that it demanded that society intervened for those who were under great pressure and could not take the stress . |
| 4 | What Lorentz liked about this dramatization of the notorious Düsseldorf sex murderer was that it had all the feel of a newsreel for ‘ there is no acting in the picture … . |
| 5 | But the trouble with the Garden of Eden , Lindsey found herself thinking , was that it had some rather disturbing connotations , not to mention the odd serpent ! |
| 6 | That , that 's , that And your other point was that it had some quite specific information about what the problem was . |
| 7 | They er well I think constitutionally it 's very difficult and this is why there is now in a similar sense as why I suggested it to you as a subject , because not only it was er a very emotional story of a glamorous young woman saying I ca n't cope with being treated by the media and other people , I 'm going to retreat but what made it so historic and therefore the treatment of it 's so interesting , was that it presented such an extraordinary constitutional position |
| 8 | When Susan Einzig was appointed to the illustration department in 1946 she saw instantly how destructive Minton 's influence could be , for the drawback of his teaching was that it did little to encourage the discovery of a personal style . |
| 9 | One of the reasons why he drank a lot was because it made this possible . |