Example sentences of "that it was the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One focus of discontent did raise the issue onto a more general level when it was argued that it was the southern origins of the planning officials which.were responsible for their unsympathetic approach to Orkney 's housing preferences . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A clear result showed that it was the Phoenician readers who were most vulnerable to the presence of irregular words . |
| 4 | and really got the momentum going and that it was the middle peasants that he needed to get the support so that they can move forward and have a revolution . |
| 5 | Charles Wilson has pointed out that it was the increased incomes of the landed which began the consumer revolution in England . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The ESP boys would say that it was the telepathic radiations of the audience that enabled Harvey to do that dance . |
| 8 | There are those who argue that it was the desperate attempts made by the Soviets in the last decade and a half to match the US , especially in Star Wars research and development , which brought about the economic collapse that dismantled the communist monolith . |
| 9 | On present evidence it appears that Classical Greek craftsmen were the first to employ enamel , but that it was the Byzantine Greeks who carried the craft to a new level of accomplishment in the service of the imperial court and the rituals of eastern Christianity . |
| 10 | it it came to be that it was the older men usually that were asked to do it I mean the people I suppose maybe felt it was more suitable to have older folk coming in to their houses . |
| 11 | Yet , particularly as the early Christians accused the pagans of worshipping trees and streams and stones , it seems likely that it was the natural sites which were looked upon as being truly important . |
| 12 | Observers agreed , however , that it was the pro-mining delegations which had given the most ground . |
| 13 | It subsequently turned out that it was the sitting tenants who were in danger of harassment . |
| 14 | Of the reason for this incredible experience , there can be little doubt that it was the supernatural echoes of the train which once ran along that peaceful little branch line . |
| 15 | Has the Prince forgotten that it was the French farmers who attacked British lorry drivers and burned their cargoes of lamb ? |
| 16 | Miss Jones had argued that it was the coordinating activities of the SPCK which made charity school provision a movement . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The manner in which some of the practices of arts education began to change from didactic teaching towards more creative approaches during the first half of the twentieth century would support the view that it was the inspirational qualities of recommended change which secured their diffusion . |
| 19 | The book takes it name from the fact that it was the Levitical priests ( Aaron and his sons and descendants , helped in the practical work of the tabernacle by the rest of the Levites ) who administered the laws . |