Example sentences of "that it was [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah well I I had erm access to quite a lot of you know , quite good clothing , er both children 's and adult 's and erm while I did n't feel that it was that people should have to depend on someone else to give them clothing , erm in some ways it went against the grain to do it . |
| 2 | No one any longer recalls where this unusual dish had its origins ; indeed some people have been unkind enough to suggest that it was but recently invented by Mr Rory McGurk at the Dehydrated Rambler , on finding himself with too much ageing shepherd 's pie left on his hands . |
| 3 | Many would have claimed that it served none , that it was but the result of the Fall and of sin , and that it brought only harm and hurt to the world . |
| 4 | And I have to say that it was after we had done a course for them on really bad press releases , because we , they had done some pretty awful press releases in the past , and we were delighted when that one came out because it actually showed that they 'd picked up the message . |
| 5 | The plaintiff could not prove that the defendant knew it was a secret process either because of its nature or because he had been specifically told that it was and Vaisey J pointed out that if it were really secret it was surprising that the defendant 's employment had brought him into contact with it ; he had been to prison in the past . |
| 6 | You that you accepted that as as conclusive that it was and not . |
| 7 | Our society does seem to be far more violent that it was or , perhaps , we are more sensitive to aggression that we once were . |
| 8 | She twirled slowly , feeling his eyes on her so that it was as though she was receiving an injection of adrenalin . |
| 9 | ‘ I must say that our discussion was such that it was as if we have known each other for many , many years . ’ |
| 10 | Lawyer A checked in his books , but said that it was as he had feared ‘ You are either insured or you are not . |
| 11 | Ironically , the Great War would not have been the war that it was if it were not for the machine . |
| 12 | Experience had taught him that it was when you stopped to catch your breath that things caught you . |
| 13 | Erm , I understand that erm somebody from the unit has had talked to your group before , but it 's just as well to come and talk to you again because we 've changed the Local Government Unit , not the same erm , unit that it was when we were first introduced , we 've grown basically . |
| 14 | On being asked what constituted such vulgarity , it was explained that it was because it had ‘ neither vest nor pants to cover his lower limbs ! ’ |
| 15 | But I gathered that it was because of some kind of political dissent , his being a member of an unauthorized group that had held secret meetings . |
| 16 | Gazzer realized that it was because she was pleased with herself . |
| 17 | I did n't have a boyfriend , and I was convinced that it was because I was too fat . |
| 18 | After the election Mr Bryan Gould , when asked why he thought Labour had lost , replied that it was because the electorate was too ‘ conservative ’ . |
| 19 | Now he told me , that night we got so drunk , that it was because of you that it had n't happened . |
| 20 | O'Toole always refused to say why and when he stopped drinking , but denied that it was because of a stomach operation he underwent . |
| 21 | HP vice president Wim Roelandts said flatly that it was because of the bad feelings built up when Vittorio Cassoni was running Unix that Unix is n't the dominant operating system today . |
| 22 | I asked the Corporal why he had saluted and he explained that it was because the Legion was the senior arm of the French Armed Forces . |
| 23 | Doubts were expressed in Washington ; but in spite of Griffin 's assertion that the wave of communist risings in Indo-China were not economic , social or ideological , rather they were predominantly nationalistic , he concluded that it was because the Bao Dai government was itself so intensely nationalist that it was worth supporting . |
| 24 | I did not ask him why , but I sensed that it was because he knew the culprit . |
| 25 | I asked him why this change of heart and he said that it was because Harold Wilson had seen fit to put her in the Lords . |
| 26 | I used to tell myself that it was because I wanted so much to believe it that I felt that way . |
| 27 | He replied that it was because in his youth there was little to do in their spare time except read and study . |
| 28 | If Alina was looking cynical , Angelica could only suppose that it was because she 'd earned the right to be . |
| 29 | It may be that it was because he was so secure in East Anglia that Offa was subsequently able to involve himself so much more forcefully in the south-east . |
| 30 | It must be appreciated , therefore , that when Coenwulf maintained that Offa wished to diminish the dignity of Canterbury because of his hatred of Archbishop Jaenberht and the people of Kent , whereas Pope Leo declared that it was because of the vastness of his lands and kingdom that Offa had desired it , both were representing Offa 's motives in ways which suited their immediate purposes . |