Example sentences of "that it [was/were] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew with total certainty that her imagination had n't been playing tricks , and that it was the second time in only a few minutes that she 'd heard those precise words . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Some authorities maintained that it was the first time a single drug had been shown to be useful in controlling psychotic patients . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Everyone seemed to think Benjamin was a virgin , but I never thought of him as that , but that it was the first time he was making love to a woman who was old enough to be his mother , and who was his mother 's friend . ’ |
| 7 | The doctor told me that it was the first time she had made an advance to anybody . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Preston denied this with some zest , pointing out that it was the first time he 'd thrown a punch at anyone since his days in the ring with Cobber the kangaroo . |
| 10 | Not that it was the first time they 'd been cut . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They ordered , sipped drinks , and Therese was conscious that it was the first time for years she had eaten a meal alone with a man . |
| 13 | The Minister of Defence Dimitur Ludzhev on a visit to Ankara on March 10 stressed that it was the first visit to Turkey by a Bulgarian Defence Minister since 1917 . |
| 14 | It haunts the pages of Adam Carse 's The orchestra from Beethoven to Berlioz ( 1948 ) , which conjectured that up to 1810 at the Opera the chef would ‘ hammer out the beat for the choruses and dances audibly on the floor , a table , or a music desk ’ Later in the same book Carse modified his stance , but concluded ( wrongly , as we shall see ) that it was the first violin who determined the ‘ interpretation [ and ] artistic side of the rendering ’ . |
| 15 | Some have maintained that the Liberal Party was being rapidly undermined before the First World War and that its decline was almost inevitable , others , however , assume that it was the First World War which was responsible for the decline of a vapid Liberal Party — the divisions within Liberal ranks creating the political vacuum into which the Labour Party slipped . |
| 16 | The most popular suggestion is that it was the First World War , and in particular the huge sacrifices of men in the battle of the Somme and the other slaughters on the Western Front , which made the change of attitude , or rhetoric , necessary . |
| 17 | A report spread that it was the first step towards establishing a joint all-Ireland police force with the Irish Republic . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The only thing he was thankful for was that it was the eleventh day , the rest day . |
| 20 | This meant that the subject was Making Notes ; that it was the third draft ( for other drafts were lying about ) ; and that it was the tenth manuscript page of that draft . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This meant that the subject was Making Notes ; that it was the third draft ( for other drafts were lying about ) ; and that it was the tenth manuscript page of that draft . |
| 23 | Especially if he spotted that it was the third time , for Miss Postlethwaite and me . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A recollection of John Davies , the minister for Europe in Heath 's cabinet , indicated the mood , ‘ We were at home in Cheshire , and I said to my wife and children that we should have a nice time , because I deeply believed then that it was the last Christmas of its kind that we would enjoy . ’ , |
| 26 | There is still a perverse pride in the modern county that it was the last area in England to be converted from paganism . |
| 27 | In the first three months of 1990 , the guess is that they were again about 13% lower than in the first quarter of 1989 , but there are now hopes that it was the last drop for a while . |