Example sentences of "[noun sg] that it [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He must tell the judiciary that it was this accountant Morris who abused the trust the firm showed in him . ’ |
| 2 | At first she had thought with a shock of fear that it was old age , that old age was like silicon , water-soluble , it flowed into you and as you dried out , it hardened , recasting you in blurred shapes and muted tones . |
| 3 | If they had realised when they answered the advertisement in the Evening Citizen that it was bare metal , they would have gone elsewhere . |
| 4 | But the scorecards overwhelmingly supported my assessment that it was one-sided tedium . |
| 5 | Hyndman drew the pessimistic conclusion that it was British power , rather than any kind of pacifism , which held the key to peace . |
| 6 | There were so few possessions or comforts in the room that it was clear Mr Sikes had met hard times . |
| 7 | Opinion was mobilised around the paradoxical notion that it was Black people who represented a threat to the rule of law in Britain . |
| 8 | His father dismissed the notion that it was any necessity and called for his son by clearing his throat , like Henry Irving demanded a prompt . |
| 9 | The other officer was Gerhard Junack of the Bismarck 's engineering staff , who helped dispel a myth which had gained some credence in the Royal Navy that it was British torpedoes and shells exclusively that had sent the allegedly unsinkable Bismarck to the bottom . |
| 10 | The four soldiers , who are now all stationed in Germany but were then in Bordon , each said in evidence that it was this incident which had persuaded them to leave the pub . |
| 11 | It 's sensual , yes , and passionate but did not deserve the criticism that it was soft porn . |
| 12 | The Tory back-benchers could take some comfort from the argument that it was operational control rather than manufacture of the weapons that mattered . |
| 13 | In Cranleigh Precision Engineering Ltd v Bryant Roskill J held that the defendant who had , whilst a director of the plaintiff company , been made aware of a patent held by a third party which affected the plaintiff 's products , could not justify his failure to disclose the existence of the patent to the plaintiffs and his subsequent acquisition of the patent for himself on the ground that it was public knowledge , for what he had misused was his confidential knowledge of the relationship of the information in the patent to the plaintiff 's products . |
| 14 | This decision upheld an earlier ruling that it was unfair labour practice to exclude skilled black miners , purely on the basis of race , from the pension scheme . |
| 15 | Such was the emotion caused by the attack that it was some time before any of the defenders recalled that the Collector had not been feeling well and wondered what had become of him . |
| 16 | Yet his great blue jowls appeared sufficient fortification against the world ; while so immense was his dignity that it was some while before I realized he spent his nights in the arms of my recently widowed mother . |
| 17 | ‘ I have no doubt that it was this misfortune that caused the appellant 's financial difficulties , one huge bad debt and the loss of regular valuable business , ’ said the judgment . |
| 18 | Thus , there seems little doubt that it was bubonic plague which struck Chesterfield in 1586–87 . |
| 19 | As it is the second , we have to consider the possibility that it was just complacency , which the minister vehemently denies , or even downright carelessness . |
| 20 | It was heartfelt and deep , but Theo should not run off with the idea that it was all laughter and light and the cooing of turtle doves . |
| 21 | Belle gave her sons the idea that it was capricious irresponsibility . |
| 22 | Although I did the lights for Hamlet at school , I never understood the play , thinking at the time that it was much ado about very little . |
| 23 | That was his word , and it struck me at the time that it was extreme language for a man of his temperament . |
| 24 | The answer lies in the fact that it was this part of the state apparatus that was dominant under colonialism and freed from political control by the metropolitan power at independence . |
| 25 | ‘ And here it is convenient to refer pointedly to the fact that it is Mr. Matthey , the original lessee , and not the Richardson executors , his assignees , who is defendant to the action and respondent on this appeal , as well as to the further fact that it was these executors , and not Mr. Matthey , who were the real and only actors in the matters to which I have just been referring . |
| 26 | Justice Foster concluded that the advertisement ‘ create[d] an irresistible impression that it was promotional material designed to advance the cause of cigarette smoking and to assist in the sale of cigarettes . ’ |
| 27 | As for Forrester , Whelan , Bowman etc I got the impression that it was more desparation that made him turn to the younger players , granted their performances were top notch but I think the injury situation had more to do with it than Wilko 's judgement , after all where are they now ? ? ? |