Example sentences of "[conj] it was [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Full-back Ernie Rhodes hailed from Tees-side , but he joined the Palace as a young man in the summer of 1913 , making his Palace debut in the ensuing season , although it was after the Great War that he made his major contribution . |
| 2 | I decided to decide that it was for the best . |
| 3 | All I can say is that it was for the best of reasons . ’ |
| 4 | But I just said that it was for the Welsh Office cos I thought if er they knew it was for a Authority you know ? |
| 5 | It has been noted that it was for the same crimes that Klaus Barbie was sentenced by the courts in Lyon to life imprisonment . |
| 6 | When that matter was put to the Home Office and the Department of the Environment , we were told that it was for the local authority to sort out the matter with the local police force . |
| 7 | ‘ And oh , what a coincidence that it was to the same part of the country ! ’ she butted in sarcastically . |
| 8 | Lord Denning said that it had to be so serious that it was of the first importance that offenders be brought to justice . |
| 9 | ‘ Our legends say that it was at the same time as the great Ebony Throne of Ireland . ’ |
| 10 | In the 1960s , the Clydesdale almost disappeared without trace , so much so that it was on the Rare Breeds Survival Trust 's list of protected animals . |
| 11 | Then in 1987 Midland Bank got itself in such a mess that it was on the receiving end of a laughable offer from the Saatchi & Saatchi advertising empire . |
| 12 | Does my hon. Friend agree that , at 3.7 per cent. , the rate of inflation is half the lowest level that it was under the last Labour Government ? |
| 13 | They also reflected a growing belief that it was in the general interest for the old to stop working : a fundamental change in attitude . |
| 14 | It was considered self-evident that it was in the general national , indeed imperial , interest to move towards free labour . |
| 15 | But , even so , pride would not allow Fabia to kowtow to anyone , so that it was in the coolest of tones , her expression wooden and unyielding , that she opened her mouth and asked him bluntly , ‘ Are you prepared to give me an interview or not ? ’ |
| 16 | Housing association output will soon be running at three times the level that it was in the 1970s . |
| 17 | He also consulted constitutional experts who assured him that it was in the Prime Minister 's hands to do as he chose . |
| 18 | At one point he indicated that it was in the best interests of the investigation . |
| 19 | ‘ At the time the [ father ] made his application to the court the local authority had decided that it was in the best interests of the children that they be placed with long-term foster parents . |
| 20 | So after very careful consideration and discussion , I and my Board colleagues decided that it was in the best interests of AEA and its employees to go ahead now . |
| 21 | ‘ They decided that it was in the best interests of the BBC and its future that John Birt should remain as director general , and gave him their full support . ’ |
| 22 | They decided that it was in the best interests of the BBC and its future that John Birt should remain as director general , and gave him their full support . ’ |
| 23 | In The Knossos Labyrinth ( Castleden 1989 ) , the evidence is summarized for believing that it was in the Central Court that the bull-leaping ritual took place , a ceremony that was itself central to the Minoan belief-system . |
| 24 | He went on to say that he had heard from a mutual friend whom he had met in Alexandria that I had a good job , and added : ‘ Mother said , in an old letter which took months to reach me , that it was in the Foreign Office . |
| 25 | As I noted in their recent Erato version of the Concerto , the Suisse Romande Orchestra is ‘ in very much better shape that it was in the 1950s and 1960s , and this new account supersedes earlier recommendations ’ . |
| 26 | There is no doubt , however , that it was in the 1860s and 1870s that there was a real extension of propaganda for birth control directed at the middle class . |
| 27 | Held , granting the application , that the coroner had wrongly precluded himself from considering whether the cause of death had been aggravated by lack of care ; that where the medical cause of death was accompanied by concurrent events which themselves might be a cause of death , there was a case for considering the death ‘ unnatural ’ within the meaning of section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 , and an inquest should be held ; that the statutory duty imposed by section 11(5) of the Act of 1988 to investigate how death occurred prevailed in any conflict with the provision in rule 42 of the Coroners Rules 1984 that verdicts should not be framed so as to appear to decide any issue of civil liability ; that it was in the public interest to investigate by means of an inquest whether the deceased 's death might have been avoided had an ambulance been available earlier ; and that , accordingly , the coroner 's decision not to hold an inquest would be quashed and an order of mandamus granted for an inquest to be held ( post , pp. 491E , H , 493C–D , E–F ) . |
| 28 | This must be why Parliament saw as necessary the duality of the parole system : without the advice and recommendation of a body capable of assessing the risk of early release the Secretary of State was not to act : but , having received such advice and recommendation , he was to authorise early release only if he himself was satisfied that it was in the public interest that he should . |
| 29 | Scott J concluded that it was in the public interest for there to have been disclosure to those two bodies . |
| 30 | With a shudder she realized that it was in the same block of buildings as Bartholomew Close . |