Example sentences of "[that] it was [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second difficulty with this most obvious method of testing is that , even if a preponderance of Protestants were to emerge , it would not follow that it was their religious convictions that supplied the motivation for their science . |
| 2 | Would the rest of Britain simply accept that it was their democratic right to self-determination that was being exercised ? |
| 3 | While Billy was at the bar ordering another round , Yanto told the girls about the motorbike and explained that it was their first outing on the machine . |
| 4 | I used to tell trainees that it was their first aptitude test to see if they could make it over Stamford Street ! ’ was not too upset to find that she will have to devise a new aptitude test from the summer . |
| 5 | The Times recorded that this was their sixth partnership of over 150 ; the Telegraph that it was their seventh century stand ; while the Guardian made it the eighth . |
| 6 | The children learned from the example of adults that it was their supreme duty to protect the Royal Family from the degradation of other people 's curiosity . |
| 7 | Although a degree of corruption was inevitable , it seems in Æthelred 's reign to have gone so far beyond what many of his subjects considered acceptable that it was their main preoccupation when they considered having him back . |
| 8 | Penny knew at once that it was her lost budgerigar . |
| 9 | Inevitably there was a lot of sycophantic non sense around her too.Thus when she made a blood donation , the director of the clinic declared that the room would remain a shrine for her and everyone who now had a transfusion would insist that it was her divine blood that flowed and miraculously and potently into his veins . |
| 10 | She seemed to think that it was her own child and showed signs of distress when Carrie took the baby from her . |
| 11 | Doreen , a nineteen-year-old mother of three young children , felt strongly about this after her experiences , and correctly points out that it was her own choice to have her children , and she should be given the same respect as any older mother : |
| 12 | Although she often maintained that it was her own choice not to attend , she told an American interviewer , I would love to go to board meetings where he [ Bernard ] is chairman but I 'm not invited . |
| 13 | She had obviously not noticed that it was her own number . |
| 14 | In her child 's understanding it seemed that it was her own liberation that was the cause of the celebration , and the arrival of the princess , the flags which appeared on all the buildings and the succession of functions for which her mother and Denzil put on their beautiful evening clothes and left her with the maid . |
| 15 | She joked that it was her favourite occupation . |
| 16 | Zenaida the sorceress jumped on her from behind , one hand at her throat , the other yanking at her hair ; she screeched , and the bird flapping over her head screeched with her , but Carmellina could tell from the look in its pale green eye that it was her true love under a spell from the wicked enchantress , and she fell to her knees and clutched the skirts of Zenaida ( what was she underneath ? |
| 17 | There are rumours that it was his African neighbours who wanted him locked up . |
| 18 | He considered that it was his primary duty to be a divine and theologian rather than a political bishop . |
| 19 | However , she rejected the offer to return without her husband 's remains , insisting that it was his dying wish to receive " a simple soldier 's burial " in his country of origin . |
| 20 | Earlier he had been officially advised that it was his legal right to have his solicitor present ; but surprisingly Downes had taken no advantage of the offer . |
| 21 | I took with me a very young airman from the engineering wing and I understood that it was his first flight . |
| 22 | In context it seems more likely that it was his impatient response to Lipchitz 's well-intentioned nannying . |
| 23 | He needed no reminder that it was his own union which had prospered in many British ports while Tillett 's Tea Operatives ' Union established in July 1887 at about the same time as his own had failed even to develop any wider organization in the Port of London itself . |
| 24 | Of that I have no doubt , but I am equally certain that it was his own hands which fastened his belt around his neck and fumbled for the window bar . |
| 25 | Prince Bernhard had said no such thing , but Sharpe had decided it would be more efficacious to assign the opinion to the prince than to confess that it was his own view . |
| 26 | And one day he came across a huge seal and killed it , never knowing that it was his own father in his seal form . |
| 27 | Furious , he got up to complain to his neighbour , only to discover that it was his own dog which he had accidently shut outside before going to bed . |
| 28 | Then he was up and levering the round boulder free , not listening to it crash down the mountain , doubting if the attackers would hear or see — and , if they did , whether they would be persuaded that it was his own body tumbling — but it was one extra little chance that cost him only a few seconds . |
| 29 | He was seized with a certainty that it was his own son . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , in 7 BC this neat arrangement was interfered with in order to honour Augustus by renaming the month Sextilis after him ( he believed that it was his lucky month ) and assigning to it the same number of days as the preceding month that had been renamed after his murdered great-uncle by Mark Antony . |