Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If it were simply that it would hardly be convincing , would it ? ’ |
| 2 | If it were n't that a judge has to decide a case , quite a few of Edward 's legal opinions would probably end in a question mark . ’ |
| 3 | Afterwards Jared Tunstall had said to her mama , ‘ It was a question of a little hustler meeting a big one , and if it were n't that he has hurt Sally-Anne so badly I could almost admire the swine for his gall . |
| 4 | He said on the old shillings I want Neil 's bed but it were n't that cos he 's bit of a fun to , you know , you know |
| 5 | No , well I mean , it were n't as though I had n't put a payment in it were just that it probably was this taking Tracey 's book and I marked it onto Tracey 's , er , Tracey 's book . |
| 6 | The then Lord Chief Justice in 1980 commented that , If it were not that a high proportion of cases are compromised long before they reach court the administration of justice would soon grind to a halt ; the courts would be overwhelmed by the volume of work . ’ |
| 7 | I thought she 'd dried it , and she said , oh , I 'm just gon na put this washing on radiators , and then it , it were then that er it made me think , well , what done with her dryer . |
| 8 | It was thus that I had been able to gain some sense of the sort of place Miss Kenton had gone to live her married life . |
| 9 | It was thus that it acquired its unique form : 35 km long and about 1.6 km wide with steep sides sloping to a flat bed . |
| 10 | Although she continued to knit , and sat upright , it was thus that she felt herself ; and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures . |
| 11 | It was thus that the classic wine-growing areas — the Camp of Tarragona and the Panadés — were expanded and the western regions re-peopled . |
| 12 | It was thus that he arrived at his figure of six hundred and twenty thousand three hundred and thirty one pounds to the overall cost of future care in this case . |
| 13 | Because of this she never had any time for her own parents : my mother could n't think it was right that they 'd parted with two of their children . ’ |
| 14 | In my village there had been historic upheaval over such questions as whether it was right that hymns should be sung in the House of God . |
| 15 | Coleridge rationalized the departure in his poem ‘ Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement ’ , asking whether it was right that he should live in beauty and solitude while his ‘ unnumber 'd brethren toil 'd and bled ’ in the greater world . |
| 16 | I told Kidsons that I did n't think it was right that I should seek re-election , which was coming up on 30 April , and left it at that . ’ |
| 17 | If he needed to be questioned again it was right that it should be at home and with his parents present . |
| 18 | I thought that it was right that I should talk to you , try and build a better picture of Michael . ’ |
| 19 | It was right that she should make it suffer for what it had done . |
| 20 | So you won , Ragu , and in retrospect I think it was right that you did . |
| 21 | However , we believe that it was right that the statement should be made in the House , from which have come the decisions that , in our opinion , have done so much to encourage the IRA through the years . |
| 22 | It was right that the poor Jewish scholar should marry the daughter of the richest local merchant , because it was unthinkable that a community which respected learning should reward its luminaries with nothing more tangible than praise . |
| 23 | But Mr Michael Fallon , the Conservative candidate , said it was right that a quarter of the receipts should go on housing while threequarters went towards repayment of debt . |
| 24 | Everything was very hush-hush , and it was not until it was over that the name of the target was made common knowledge — not that it would have been of any interest to us if we had known beforehand , because none of us had ever heard of it . |
| 25 | It was only now that it was over that she realised quite how it had got to her . |
| 26 | It was n't that I was being purposely unfriendly , it was just that I had decided that my best chance of survival lay in my being as unobtrusive as possible . |
| 27 | It was n't that I was an amazing person or exactly the right guy for the job . |
| 28 | It was n't that she wanted to work in a sex shop but that she needed work of some kind . |
| 29 | It was n't that people did not spread false rumours . |
| 30 | So far , Marie had lasted longer than either of them : it was n't that she was better at her job than they were , it was just that she did n't expect so much of people . |