Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it was [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am fundamentally lazy and decided that we would inevitably be scrambled so it was less effort to remain in my aircraft and wait for it , helmet on and listening to the R T. The next thing I saw was people running — I still could not hear anything due to my helmet — and on looking round saw the 109s starting their dive on the field . |
| 2 | We are therefore not surprised to find that it was this part of his work which most nineteenth-century readers chose to ignore , as any Victorian anthology will prove with its selection of passages relating to Nature . |
| 3 | Daisy nearly said Perdita could start off by weight lifting some of her belongings upstairs , but desisted because it was such heaven to be on speaking terms again . |
| 4 | She wanted to make some sarcastic retort about his being so bossy , but he was already clearing away the plates , not paying the slightest scrap of attention to her , and she realised that it was this lack of attention that really annoyed her . |
| 5 | Abolitionists successfully used the convention drastically to reduce the freedom of parliamentary action and to claim that it was more representative of national opinion than the legislature . |
| 6 | Car and bodies had been so badly charred that it was some time before they could be identified . |
| 7 | The company has been familiarising itself with the technology with its own experimental highly parallel scalar machine called the AP1000 , and it clearly does not trust the literature — it says that it was this machine that taught Fujitsu scientists that ‘ parallel supercomputing requires a radically different approach to programming ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ I decided that I had to put the headmaster in a position to answer and it was this problem that worried me most — more than the outrageous charges against myself and the effect on my family . |
| 9 | It would seem reasonable to suggest that it was this waking preoccupation of his that Qused his subconscious to produce the relevant dream . |
| 10 | When one sees that it was this snobbery which he set out to attack , it is possible to understand why he set about the delicate problem of pain in so breezy a fashion . |
| 11 | Negotiations opened but it was several months before the two men reached an agreement for ‘ substantial borrowings ’ . |
| 12 | Nowadays , of course , we understand that it was this way of talking about ethical abstractions that made them seem so mysterious . |
| 13 | Moreover , the use of recall as a measure of memory may have meant that subjects were using thoughts about risk as a retrieval cue , indeed they may have assumed that it was this information that the experimenter was most interested in . |
| 14 | And yet , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I also knew that it was this cold that drew me , this steady destruction of body and imagination , this utter alienness , as though only that could still excite me , as though anything less alien would only leave me indifferent . |
| 15 | Raynor , more closely attuned to her now than he would have believed possible , felt the strength and the sudden arrogance and the automatic shouldering of a burden , and knew that it was this quality , this mastery , that set her so much apart . |
| 16 | Early explorers of the Pacific coast of North America , who coveted the pure white pelts worn by the resident Indians , thought that it was some kind of polar bear . |
| 17 | In the event , Burnley won and it was all sweetness and light . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ If you 're — uh — gay , as they insist on calling it these days , then I 'll just have to accept it , but I shall always blame myself , always wonder where I went wrong with you , wonder whether it was that school I sent you to , I was never sure if it was a mistake or ’ |
| 19 | He had found one protection from those " storms " in the Anglican communion ( although he indignantly denied that it was any kind of comfortable haven ) , and during these years his role as one of the most prominent laymen in that communion was increasing ; as one biographical note in 1937 described him , Eliot had done much " to interpret literature to the theologian and theology to the men of letters " . |
| 20 | A third trend was centred upon growing awareness of the difference between the real world and the way in which environment was perceived because it was such perception which influenced decision-making and therefore management . |