Example sentences of "was [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outcome was that it attracted masses of press attention . |
| 2 | The way I viewed training was that it got me out of the house . |
| 3 | The trouble with winning , she explained , was that it left her with bad memories rather than good . |
| 4 | So , while in 1814 the prime criticism of the idea was that it expected too much of human nature , too much of the people who were to live in the communities and of those who were to put them there , while then it was in short a social criticism , by 1832 the idea had become an economic nonsense . |
| 5 | The trouble was that it seemed almost unfair to Donald not to have another go . |
| 6 | The importance of Irwin 's triumph was that it seemed both classical and prototypical — an exemplification of triumphs past and a portent of triumphs to come . |
| 7 | All he did know at this moment was that it seemed a shame a girl such as Maggie here , with brains , because she was no fool , and a talent such as she had , should be encased in a body that held no appeal . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The chief reason I 'd always been against abortion was that it seemed like tearing up a bill instead of paying it . |
| 10 | So all she could report was that it seemed dark and cruiser-shaped . |
| 11 | The trouble was that it seemed as likely as a lion apologising to a gazelle . |
| 12 | One of the reasons for using a recognition task was that it seemed less likely than the first study which used a recall test to be biased by the fact that subjects were aware that the study was concerned with risk . |
| 13 | Erm , and then we get requests for things from the leader of the Council directly , that he wants us to respond to , the chair of that committee to erm will , will do the same thing , we 'll get requests from other departments relating to our work , some of which might of been you , we erm , the Council has a group for the finance advisory group , which is a small group of Councillor 's and officer 's that meet to discuss not in , in public session , key erm financial and other major policy erm issues that , and the reason why that group was set up , erm was that it felt like with the introduction of Poll Tax and the Local Government Housing and Finance Tax , that it needed outside the committee cycle to erm review the impact of those legislation to look at it 's finances more closely and what , and we as a policy team report into that group and get request from work from that group as well . |
| 14 | Michael Stewart 's first comment on the interior was that it felt like being in an aircraft cockpit . |
| 15 | One of the main problems for the subject in the inter-war period was that it became increasingly identified as a status quo subject . |
| 16 | The difficulty with writing it down was that it became real to the extent of being in a book , there were two lives , the one in the book and the one which he lived to collect the details for the book one ; he could go further in his head than on the page , the words slowed him down . |
| 17 | The whole raison d'etre of that early Christian community was that it believed certain things of Christ — at the very least , that it was he whom God had raised from the dead . |
| 18 | One of the key determinants of US policy towards Iraq last August was that it believed it has the military forces sufficient to evict Iraq from Kuwait . |
| 19 | Thus one conspirator in the 1961 Great Heavy Electrical Industry conspiracy said : ‘ We understand this was what the company wanted us to do ’ , and another reported that , ‘ It ( the instruction ) came to me from my superior … but my impression was that it came to him from higher up ’ . |
| 20 | The sadness was that it came from the killing of Harry . |
| 21 | What was striking about the instant response to Stanley 's emancipation proposals in 1833 was that it came from Howick , until recently in charge , at the Colonial Office , of the emancipation question , and that his strongest dissent arose from the failure of the plan to chart a move as soon as possible directly from slavery to free labour without bothering with an apprenticeship stage . |
| 22 | The danger with this was that it caused believers to look to their own faith rather than to Christ alone for the assurance of their salvation . |
| 23 | The genius of the Council of Chalcedon , in saying that Jesus is one person in both divine and human natures , was that it denied that the incarnation implied anything about the nature of God ( the meaning of ‘ God ’ ) , asserting simply that God , the mystery of Creation , is become a human being — not a divine kind of human being but a human kind of human being . |
| 24 | One of the many reactions to the decision of the House of Lords in Caldwell ( 1982 ) was that it went against DPP v. |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The great advantage of his system , with its reliance upon external characters and analogies , was that it enabled him to make sense of the whole animal kingdom without the lifetime of research which Lardner 's schedule made impossible . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | A more penetrating comment on the statutory test advanced in that 1959 Report was that it sought to control a mere ‘ tendency ’ . |