Example sentences of "[that] it [was/were] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | International law recognised that it was for each state to determine the conditions upon which it granted its nationality to ships , subject to there being a genuine link between the flag state and the vessel . |
| 2 | Baker said in the debate that it was for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to chose the option of peace by withdrawing Iraqi forces . |
| 3 | The US government announced on Aug. 24 that it was to double Estonia 's credit limit for buying grain to US$10,000,000 . |
| 4 | The party manifesto stressed the importance of the link within the UK to the extent that it was of paramount importance that any proposals made by the Constitutional Convention must be fully acceptable to the United Kingdom government and people . |
| 5 | In researching this complex and multi-faceted problem , we felt that it was of paramount importance to place this issue within an historical , international and political context . |
| 6 | But in the light of what has been said we can also see that it was of especial significance in emancipating , not merely the hand from locomotion , but the brain from its reliance on chemical stimuli mediated by the sense of smell . |
| 7 | She noticed this peculiar fish and although she was not a fish specialist , she became convinced that it was of great importance . |
| 8 | Thus , in spite of the large amount of flying experience I had accumulated overseas , I found that it was of little use to me back in the UK , I did find , however , that my seniority as an NCO seemed to attract functions that I found difficult to avoid . |
| 9 | There was evident a very strong determination on the part of Prof. Barker to remove all obstacles likely to prevent agreement being reached and , in the course of a subsequent conversation with Elvin , he said that he had recently come to the conclusion that it was of primary importance that the WEA should have the full assistance of the Extra-Mural Board in all its work throughout the whole of this District . |
| 10 | Happiness ( or unhappiness ) was not mentioned , and I assumed that it was of subsidiary importance . |
| 11 | Those statements should be true but erm you would n't have the right that it was of merchantable quality . |
| 12 | The House of Lords held that it was of merchantable quality because it was saleable without any substantial reduction of the price . |
| 13 | Assessment of capital very much influenced that , and it was ‘ of the highest importance ’ that it was at all times a proper influence . |
| 14 | It is possible this is a case of hindsight colouring my memory , but I have a distinct feeling that it was at that moment I first sensed something odd , something duplicitous perhaps , about this apparently charming American gentleman . |
| 15 | As one example , we know that it was at this time that he took the opportunity to fill the vacant see of York since the canons were present and thus he could postulate and consecrate Walter Gray . |
| 16 | But there can be no real doubt that it was on medical advice that Law resigned , for he was advised that only a complete break would save him from total breakdown , and he was actually suffering from the disease that was to kill him in less than three years . |
| 17 | Talking to Andre Malraux years later , Picasso went so far as to say that it was on this occasion that he all of a sudden received the revelation of why he was a painter at all and that ‘ I realized what painting was all about ’ . |
| 18 | Since there are other reasons to believe that Scaevola did not himself publish his collections of opinions , it seems best to suppose that it was on later publication that difficulties arose . |
| 19 | I think that it was during this visit that Peter Duval-Smith tacked on to us when we were going to dine at the Turkish harbour . |
| 20 | As he walked away from the house , Mark had remembered that it was along this street , with its brightly — almost garishly — painted houses that Sophia had once seen a cluster of what she took to be exotic tropical fruits in one of the windows , only to realise that they were tomatoes put there to ripen . |
| 21 | Their understanding of racism was that it was about Afro-Caribbean people and maybe people from the Indian sub-continent . |
| 22 | There are some indications that it was about this time that she began to fall in love with Richard Baxter . |
| 23 | So we decided that it was worth three pounds . ’ |
| 24 | The reason for this is not so much that it was beyond some people 's capacity to do imposition and so on ; but rather that it cost employers money to train people to do such tasks . |
| 25 | Status remains important but it is no longer the central feature of British society that it was in preceding centuries . |
| 26 | This is hypothetical , of course , but Sweeney Agonistes had demonstrated that it was in such drama , rather than social realism , that his theatrical talents really lay . |
| 27 | Anybody seeing this operation in the modern bottling halls of Champagne houses today will find it difficult to imagine that it was in regular use a hundred years ago , yet the two pioneers of the à la glace system , Moët & Chandon and Perrier Jouët , both introduced the process in 1891 , independently of each other , and five years before it was patented by Walfart on 14 November 1896 . |
| 28 | Mrs d'Urberville held each bird and felt it carefully to see that it was in good health . |
| 29 | Sullivan ) , we have to acknowledge that it was in many ways an attractive society , and an admirable one . |
| 30 | Or at least they start , both books really start with the same issue , and the issue in question is in many ways , well , you could argue that it was in many ways fundamental to the social sciences . |