Example sentences of "was [det] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was around Easter , and perhaps it was this that led him to wax theological as we bounced across the heather and gorse . |
| 2 | It was this that led them to postulate an original state of affairs in which a hypothetical , pre-human , pre-cultural Natural Man was a cow-like creature , without society and without language , living in the wild in a Garden of Eden forest . |
| 3 | Perhaps it was this that kept him alive . |
| 4 | And it was this that kept me going . |
| 5 | It was this that made me unable to sleep , so that coming downstairs , parched with alcohol , for a glass of lemonade , I heard my mother and Lili talking . |
| 6 | I think it was this that made him stop telephoning me . |
| 7 | It was this that made it possible for the whole of the cuckoo 's breeding cycle to be filmed , resulting in an early classic of wildlife photography , The Cuckoo 's Secret . |
| 8 | The emphasis of the New Testament is that Christ resisted the temptations thrown at him and it was this that qualified him for dying on the cross . |
| 9 | It was this that prompted me to scrutinize Greek tragedy and thereby gain the new view of the Hellenic spirit that I have been putting forward . |
| 10 | The hull was presumably steel ; it was this that gave her a rust-streaked look under the dirty coating of ice and snow . |
| 11 | Alexander Ramsay was back in his own house of Dalwolsey for Yuletide , and glad to be , for apart from the festive season 's celebrations , which he always enjoyed , there was much that required his attention as chief of a great lordship of many baronies , many manors and wide lands . |
| 12 | It was these that made her carry on the conversation . |
| 13 | If that was all that separated her from childhood , it was n't much . |
| 14 | Where was all that charm he had lathered with sickening profuseness on Simone ? |