Example sentences of "[vb past] that it was [art] [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 | At one of the major colonies of black-headed gulls in northern England , researchers found that it was a good year if fifteen per cent of the eggs that were laid produced fledged young . |
| 3 | so it looks like you 've got future there , then you go trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot back now you 've got something slightly different there here you had der der der der der you said okay , future , then you went back there and you found that it was a present tense in English , right , but you needed a future in French because the whole thing is future . |
| 4 | On the first morning , after a night in a Lycée bed , they all went to a preliminary reception at the Hôtel de Ville : Clara went , politely willing , but when she got there she found that it was a gigantic , milling , stifling insult . |
| 5 | They had carried the body to the nearest house , and found that it was a good-looking young man about twenty-five years old . |
| 6 | ‘ We were really nervous , ’ says Michelle West , ‘ but we found that it was the nervous people who stuck with the project . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As the end credits rolled and the title came up , she realized that it was a dramatized retelling of the Martian invasion of Earth circa 2090 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | On the other hand , the Cumberbatch survey showed that while 24% of over 1,000 respondents thought televising a bad idea in early November 1989 , those thinking this had fallen to 15% by March 1990 , and a rising number of people agreed that it was a good idea because ‘ the public have a right to know what goes on ’ — 87% in the first survey and 95% in the later one . |
| 11 | That was approved three years ago on policy group , Stuart was there and he he agreed that it was a feasible option to civilianise C P O's . |
| 12 | Whittle agreed that it was a typical Mumby joke . |
| 13 | In the end they agreed that it was a fair way of sharing the inheritance , and so the legal steps were taken to transfer equal shares to all of us . |
| 14 | I had no authority to do this , but agreed that it was a sensible thing to do . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | On recovery , Mr Hayden described the stranger to the porter who agreed that it was the same figure he had seen . |
| 18 | She raced downstairs to tell her mummy , who agreed that it was an excellent idea . |
| 19 | But Ginsberg realised that it was a conditional matter , and the task of sociology as he saw it was to discern and specify the conditions under which it could continue . |
| 20 | At that stage in his career no one was looking for a hit-machine : the longer heads realised that it was a difficult job to scale the face of Broadway — as it was in the West End — with so few footholds and even fewer helping ropes dangling down to give you a lift . |
| 21 | I could not swallow pills until I realised that it was a psychological problem ( ’ Sticky pills ’ ) Monitor , 13 January , p 88 ) . |
| 22 | Neither we , nor the shadowy crowds on the bank calling out blessings and affectionate greetings , realised that it was a last farewell , though we had misgivings . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Sidorov admitted that it was a great honour to be appointed to the government , but was not yet ready to discuss his policies , as he ‘ needed to assess the situation at the Ministry ’ , although he did hint that changes in the organisation 's structure would be required . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Some argued that it was a druidical sacrificial place of worship ; others that it was a gigantic cosmic clock . |
| 30 | Advocates of the first-past-the-post system argued that it was the only way of delivering strong government , Mr Cook said . |