Example sentences of "it was [verb] [adj] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was to stop this that amateurs within the FA , who disliked professionalism in principle , were willing to accept it in practice . |
| 2 | However , it was made clear that Cuba would not be admitted into the San José Pact , whereby Mexico and Venezuela sold oil on favourable rates to central American and some Caribbean states . |
| 3 | While Barbara Barnes , the nanny to Lord and Lady Glenconner 's children , was employed it was made clear that Diana would be intimately involved in her children 's upbringing . |
| 4 | It was made clear that trade would be at international prices , with no subsidies or preferential treatment . |
| 5 | In 1900 , on the initiative of William II , it was made clear that military attachés were subordinate not to the head of the mission of which they were formally members but only to the kaiser himself . |
| 6 | When the ban on schools in providing these was lifted , it was made clear that schools alone could not afford them . |
| 7 | At the commencement of the tournament it was made clear that referees had been instructed to apply Laws 18 and 19 . |
| 8 | The year 1962 had not been a good one for Macmillan : his domestic policies had started to go awry ; the application to join the EEC was unpopular ; his showing in the opinion polls had slumped to 36 per cent ; in July he had sacked one-third of his cabinet , fearing a revolt against his leadership ; in October he was seen to play little part in the Cuban missile crisis , in which Kennedy alone took the decisions that could have drawn Britain , whether she liked it or not , into nuclear war between the superpowers ; and in December it was becoming clear that de Gaulle was blocking the EEC entry negotiations . |
| 9 | After a few sessions it was becoming clear that Henry 's impact on the scheme was reciprocal . |
| 10 | During the final months of the peace Ballot campaign it was becoming clear that Mussolini was preparing to invade Abyssinia , and it was in relation to this danger that the issue of sanctions was generally debated . |