Example sentences of "it was this " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The owner of ‘ The Hollybush ’ at Elstree proposed to infill an original coach arch in the pub 's facade and to demolish the timber framed side walls of the passageway behind in order to form a larger and open interior , even though it was this feature that distinguished the building as an historic inn . |
| 3 | It was this , I am thinking , that made Miss Jonathan realize that if the marriage she was about to enter into with a man much different from herself , and older also , would not go well , she would never from a Catholic be obtaining a divorce . |
| 4 | ‘ Teenage music ’ had not yet arrived , and what there was was essentially for adults , in the form of country and western and rhythm and blues ; jazz was popular , of course , in some circles , but for the rest it was this or classical music , which Leonard also enjoyed , and waltzes . |
| 5 | It was this that fostered an even more radical bid for his independence . |
| 6 | It was this ‘ nature ’ that caused Nathan to act as the factory supervisor — ‘ a good guy ’ so far as the workers were concerned ; and allowed Horace the seniority , as ‘ a front-office man . ’ |
| 7 | It was this work , along with the subsequent brilliance of his public performances , that created his reputation as ‘ Canada 's leading young poet ’ : ‘ His virtues are his own , and they are considerable … at his best he expresses himself , sometimes whimsically , sometimes passionately , in speech which is beyond the capacity of mere formula to produce , ’ commented Allan Donaldson at the time . |
| 8 | You know how damp it was this morning . |
| 9 | The earlier traditions had focused not on experience as the key element in mind , but on intellect and thought ; it was this that made mind special and different from anything physical . |
| 10 | It was this ability to display a ballerina 's apparent weightlessness and sheer joy in dance that was so impressive when the Spirits of the Air danced in Homage to the Queen , Ashton 's exquisite celebration of the 1952 Coronation which was danced by Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes . |
| 11 | It was this aspect of Leavisism that Oxford English , with its broad though often flaccid eclecticism , was most opposed to . |
| 12 | And once again it was this unrelenting professionalism in Pound that set , and continues to set , Englishmen 's teeth on edge . |
| 13 | To his professional duties he had added the role of Departmental Safety Officer , and it was this experience which took him in 1977 to Imperial College in the new post of College Safety Director . |
| 14 | And later in the war , in 1943 , it was this imposing natural wall of shingle which was used by the famous Dambusters as a practice target before their attack on the Mohne and Eder dams in Germany . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | It would be inappropriate , however , to avoid the general subject of birth control , since it was this very question which ostensibly destroyed his ambition to lead the Conservative Party , and indeed , to be prime minister . |
| 17 | More bombs were used the following year , and it was this , according to MI5 documents obtained by the IRA , that prompted efforts to recruit informants among Irish people in Europe . |
| 18 | It was this growing tendency after 1983 which almost brought the government to its knees . |
| 19 | It was this aspect , along with the play 's closeness to liturgy and ritual ( two linked methods of securing a sense of community ) , which most excited critics . |
| 20 | It was this government which ruled Britain until May 1940 , when yet another coalition , led by Churchill — a genuine all-party coalition — governed Britain until 1945 , when there was a return to party politics and alternating governments . |
| 21 | What it could not agree on was how the budget was to be balanced ; and it was this disagreement that led to the break-up of the government . |
| 22 | It was this ruthless clarity and brightness that she had run away from . |
| 23 | It was this moment that she had come for . |
| 24 | But it was this very exploitation — the fact , for example , that immigrant workers had to live in the deprived and decaying areas of big cities because of the proximity of their jobs to these areas , which led to their being regarded increasingly as undesirable . |
| 25 | It was this very situation — one where the workers themselves could take control of the struggle , organise and demand on their own behalf — which was not acceptable as far as the trade union bureaucracy and leadership were concerned . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It was this vague dissatisfaction with new materials that planted the seed for a second business , reproducing antique textile prints , in collaboration with London colleagues Richard and Sarah Miles . |
| 28 | It was this that suggested that there had been pricing errors which lead to the suspension of the trusts . |
| 29 | It was this that suggested that there had been pricing errors which led to the suspension of the trusts . |
| 30 | It was this that eventually scuppered Horner . |