Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] it was the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some authorities maintained that it was the first time a single drug had been shown to be useful in controlling psychotic patients . |
| 2 | ‘ We were really nervous , ’ says Michelle West , ‘ but we found that it was the nervous people who stuck with the project . ’ |
| 3 | A study carried out by Kerr for the Department of the Environment found that it was the better properties with gardens that were most likely to be bought ( especially three-bedroomed , semi-detached houses ) while the number of flats purchased remained small . |
| 4 | As I opened it , and looked out , I realized that it was the first time I had consciously looked out : before , I had always been hurrying by . |
| 5 | The air raids and gas attacks that everyone had feared did not take place but Anne and Sarah agreed that it was the small inconveniences of war that were hardest to bear . |
| 6 | Jeremy Healy 's music was loud and passionate , and designer/stylist Judy Blame agreed that it was the only decent stuff he 'd heard all week , adding that French Djs are the worst on the planet and that there is virtually no point in clubbing in Paris until the situation is remedied . |
| 7 | On recovery , Mr Hayden described the stranger to the porter who agreed that it was the same figure he had seen . |
| 8 | But the longer she stared at that tiny betraying smudge , the more she realised that it was the only explanation that made any sense at all . |
| 9 | He discovered that Bob was twenty-five , four years his junior , and realised that it was the first time since his brother Joe 's marriage , when they were seventeen and twenty , that he had had a companion of roughly his own age . |
| 10 | I then went on to think about who had clipped Secretary of State Samson 's golden locks and , once again , I realised that it was the right hon. Member for Finchley . |
| 11 | On Feb. 4 Hor Nam Hong announced that it was the last extension of the Assembly 's mandate , and that elections would be held in 1992 with or without a political settlement . |
| 12 | He was certainly enjoying life more than ever before , and when Eva finally announced that we were moving to London he admitted that it was the right thing to do . |
| 13 | Advocates of the first-past-the-post system argued that it was the only way of delivering strong government , Mr Cook said . |
| 14 | The former ruling party argued that it was the only party able to maintain " peace and stability " , while the MMD was untried and tribalistic . |
| 15 | Hobhouse 's evolutionary method was , however , also reminiscent of Comte since he argued that it was the growing domination of mind over the conditions of life that enables us to appreciate the importance of the collective framework of society . |
| 16 | There were a number of rabbits in the net but I never believed that it was the sheer weight of the catch that was responsible . |
| 17 | He believed that it was the official Opposition and had an undoubted right to take its place as the next in line . |
| 18 | The Unitarian minister and editor Edwin Chapman underlined that desire to overcome separation when in his thanksgiving sermon on Emancipation Day in 1834 he proclaimed that it was the Christian principle evinced by all the sects and parties which had brought on the victory . |
| 19 | A clear result showed that it was the Phoenician readers who were most vulnerable to the presence of irregular words . |
| 20 | He had acknowledged similar courtesies a number of times since riding out , and guessed that it was the sable hat of a Khan which he carried in his hand which was attracting recognition , rather than his actual eminence . |
| 21 | They boasted that it was the worst they 'd ever known , and could expect a million profit with confidence . |
| 22 | ( 1988 ) , implied that it was the prejudiced people who did not ‘ like ’ black people or did not ‘ want ’ them in Britain . |
| 23 | John was happier with this work than any of his others , and Myfanwy Piper recorded that it was the first of his own ballets which John seriously believed in . |
| 24 | He was not particularly pleased with the result , however : when The Family Reunion had been televised two years before , he confessed that it was the first television play he had seen and that he found the medium deficient . |
| 25 | Mr Trimble told the Speaker he appreciated that it was the normal practice not to have immediate statements on specific terrorist incidents ‘ because that amplifies the terror ’ . |
| 26 | Esther hinted that it was the grim circumstances of their childhood that had drawn them together with a love that dared not speak its name . |
| 27 | But Dierdriu only smiled at him , and Fergus saw that it was the cruel , charming smile of her ancestors , who had lain with the wolves . |
| 28 | As she walked uphill she heard footsteps behind her , and , turning , saw that it was the one person in the whole world she did not want to meet this side of the grave . |
| 29 | His wife Jean , 70 , said : ‘ When I saw that it was the only laugh I have had since Theo 's death . |
| 30 | This answer to the problem of overcrowding is not thought to need any further explanation because it is assumed to be the rational course of action : people saw that it was the only feasible thing to do , and acted accordingly . |