Example sentences of "it was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first time our national and international network had gathered together in one place and made us all realise just how much the work has grown . ’ |
| 2 | It was the fifth of those lectures he gave from 1769 to 1790 , known as his fifteen discourses . |
| 3 | It was the eternal noise at that bend in the river , but on a normal day it could n't be heard here . |
| 4 | It was the price for my more materialist attitude , my seeking to occupy the middle ground , between absorption in life and soaring above the cares of the earth . |
| 5 | Eliot was able to ‘ recognise himself through someone other ’ — a changeable other , but at one point it was the Frenchman Laforgue . |
| 6 | It was the taste of the stranger — who might at the same time be rooted , as he himself was , in some national life . |
| 7 | It was the part of Sabbo in Rope ; mind you , I had been offered two leading roles at other reps that could n't give me the vital Equity card — so Sabbo it was . |
| 8 | It was the last days of the old tradition , I suppose and I 'm glad I was lucky enough to be part of them . |
| 9 | It was the failure to incorporate the catholic — nationalist remnant into the consensus of the Northern statelet which resulted in sporadic violence , institutionalized and structural on the one side and insurgent-guerilla on the other . |
| 10 | An important component of this religious renewal was its individualistic orientation ; it was the individual rather than the group or its activity in the world which was the subject of this religious activity . |
| 11 | The spirit of papal statements throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was that it was the duty of the state to oppose freedom of conscience in matters of religion and freedom of worship and to celebrate openly the worship of God ‘ in that way which he has shown to be his will ’ , namely Roman catholicism ( Leo XIII 1903 : 111–12 ) . |
| 12 | It is to be noted that , in this , it was the laity who took the initiative . |
| 13 | As has already been seen , it was the style of both church and politicians to avoid their mutual consultations being known , which tells us that the secularity of the state at that time was partially a façade , but one which it was felt by both interested parties had to be maintained , probably so as not to confuse the faithful . |
| 14 | It was the 1960s before the bishops began to distance themselves from direct relationships with the government of the day . |
| 15 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 16 | I told him it was the size of it all disturbed me . |
| 17 | It was the licensing system and licensing controls , after all , which helped to foster Britain 's peculiar ‘ brewery tie ’ and concentrate pub ownership in the hands of the brewers in the first place ; and it was the same system which connived at and partly encouraged the modern contagion of open-plan pub designs . |
| 18 | It was the licensing system and licensing controls , after all , which helped to foster Britain 's peculiar ‘ brewery tie ’ and concentrate pub ownership in the hands of the brewers in the first place ; and it was the same system which connived at and partly encouraged the modern contagion of open-plan pub designs . |
| 19 | It was the way we looked at life back in the mid-60s . ’ |
| 20 | It was the foreigner who broke the ice . |
| 21 | It was the voice of a woman released , in more ways than one , from a life of obedient acquiescence to a stronger personality . |
| 22 | ‘ No — it was the telephone . |
| 23 | It was the dullest reception ever . |
| 24 | With a career as an actress already established it was the success of Lynda La Plante 's 12 part series for Euston Films , WIDOWS , ( 1982 ) , which enabled her to concentrate full time on writing . |
| 25 | It was the beginning of the summer term and on the noticeboard was that term 's list of the morning lectures for the first-year undergraduates . |
| 26 | It was the Deputy Director . |
| 27 | My becoming homeless was not a result of my dropping out of a system which probably would have supported me until retirement age ; it was the result of a chain of events which took place much , much later . |
| 28 | It was the only time I can ever remember seeing him with tears in his eyes . |
| 29 | It was the feeling that I had survived , and that maybe , with help , I was going to continue to survive . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , it was the best I could do at short notice . ’ |