Example sentences of "[noun sg] that it [was/were] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had taken her to the Three Tuns , and told the others to meet us there , on the basis that it was the second nearest pub to the scene of the demo and the nearest one to Seymour Street police station . |
| 2 | Mr Jack Straw , Labour 's shadow education secretary , said last night that it was the first time in his 10 years in Parliament that responsibility for piloting such an important piece of legislation through committee had been left to such junior departmental politicians . |
| 3 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 4 | We must now fear with good reason that it was the first three months which were not typical . |
| 5 | There is still a perverse pride in the modern county that it was the last area in England to be converted from paganism . |
| 6 | perhaps the major significance of the Council of Europe rests in the fact that it was the first European organisation with a political flavour . |
| 7 | The significance of the BF therefore was to be in its administration and the fact that it was the first British organization to link itself specifically with Mussolini 's new form of politics , in however diluted a form . |
| 8 | Art Basel reigns supreme among art fairs for a number of reasons : for the length it has been in existence ; for the fact that it was the first fair to introduce a selection committee ; and because of its timing . |
| 9 | The reason that the Macintosh , hardly a favourite among the business community , has been so successful in its guise as a publishing system is due to the fact that it was the first to provide a common user interface for all its software . |
| 10 | The fact that it was the first time in the 20th century that either of the major parties had selected an all-southern election ticket reflected the widespread belief that only by recapturing support lost to the Republicans in the south could the Democrats hope to win the presidency . |
| 11 | An Old Firm game played on the Saturday before an international match is clearly not an aid to Roxburgh and the fact that it was the 34th match of a gruelling 44-game championship did not escape his attention , either . |