Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was not this way from the beginning . |
| 2 | It was just this kind of argument that two company directors put forward when they were prosecuted in New South Wales in 1979 for apparently causing shareholders to lose more than A$22 millions ( Hopkins 1980b ) . |
| 3 | It was exactly this kind of initiative that Darwin would bring forward in the Origin of Species . |
| 4 | Pocock does , however , strive to make his building irregular , and it was primarily this feature of the Gothic that Jane Austen disliked . |
| 5 | It was precisely this type of downward shift that was recorded . |
| 6 | It was precisely this analysis of how certain expressions lower down in the tree thus fell within the scope of others higher up on a branch that launched modern logic on its powerful and sophisticated account of logical relations among sentences . |
| 7 | One must remember that it was specifically this issue of clerical power over schools which was the nub of the controversy in the 1900–14 period . |