Example sentences of "it [was/were] this [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was this sweetness of tone that made National Tri-Plates a favourite of Hawaiian lap-steel players , although — bizarrely enough — the National company had much higher ambitions for their guitars . |
| 2 | It was this kind of evidence that led us to use the social network model in a systematic way : as Ballymacarrett is the most stable and well-established of the communities , we can conclude that the social conditions there are favourable to the emergence of a close-knit network structure of the kind often found in low-status communities ( Young and Wilmott , 1962 ) , and there is ample ethnographic evidence that a close-knit structure of this kind is capable of imposing normative consensus on its members . |
| 3 | It was this kind of objection which led to the influential doctrine of falsification and the conception of the hypothetico-deductive model of explanation which is sketched below . |
| 4 | It was this depth of breeding that encouraged such lively bidding for the Woodhayne stock which sold to 1200gns for Woodhayne Citrine , a Gulliver sired cow offered with a heifer calf by Mavesyn Midas . |
| 5 | It was this characteristic of metal which revealed the manufacturing history of a bronze stand of the Italian Late Bronze Age ( 1250–900 BC ) . |
| 6 | It was this element of unreality which made tunnelling the most popular scheme for escape . |
| 7 | It was this element of chance , or randomness , that so disturbed Einstein . |
| 8 | This ‘ In nomine ’ of Taverner 's is an almost exact transcription of the section ‘ In nomine Domini ’ of the Benedictus of his Mass Gloria tibi Trinitas ( on the Sarum version of a Vesper antiphon for Trinity Sunday ) , and it was this segment of plainsong , sometimes with quotation of Taverner 's other parts , which served generations of English composers as cantus firmus for contrapuntal ‘ fancies ’ . |
| 9 | It was this vision of order that held his vast empire together and on his death the entire vision collapsed , and the realm rapidly fell into decay and disunity . |
| 10 | It was this lack of division that most effectively concealed from Clara the basic , classic structure of the building , for she had been brought up with the notion that walls must be above eye-level , lace curtains impenetrable , bedrooms facing discreetly into the void . |
| 11 | It was this lack of independence which so appalled her , while at the same time she knew , when it came down to fundamentals , that she had such a vulnerable appendage permanently dependent on her . |
| 12 | She wanted to make some sarcastic retort about his being so bossy , but he was already clearing away the plates , not paying the slightest scrap of attention to her , and she realised that it was this lack of attention that really annoyed her . |
| 13 | It was this change of circumstances which led me in announcing the making of the emergency order to say that W. 's wishes were no longer of weight . |
| 14 | ( iv ) Conveyance or transfer pursuant to court order with husband being released from the mortgage ( wife assuming liability ) ( Eg Precedents 5 , 6 , 19 and 20 ) It was this type of conveyance which caused the most difficulty prior to the passing of the Finance Act 1985 because the Stamp Act 1891 , s57 triggered a charge to stamp duty ( see above ) . |
| 15 | He felt it was this type of blanket discrimination against West Belfast which the legislation fails to address and any serious attempt to end discrimination must contain positive discrimination and quotas . |
| 16 | It was this type of information which led to an adjournment debate on child abuse and the practices of witchcraft in the House of Commons on April 27 , 1988 . |
| 17 | It was this interplay of ideas and practical events that lay behind the ‘ interactionist revolution ’ of the 1960s and 1970s and was to have a powerful influence over both psychological and sociological thinking about crime and deviance . |
| 18 | It was this establishment of bishoprics that finally destroyed Saxon identity , for life began to revolve around centralised locations with the bishoprics generating towns , and the ancient semi-nomadic life was eroded . |
| 19 | Perhaps it was this climate of hysteria and sanctified greed that broke the moral fibre of a mild-mannered English instructor at Columbia University called Charles Van Doren . |
| 20 | He always spoke about his poetry as ‘ the work ’ ; it was this sort of dispassion that so excited the BBC . |
| 21 | It was this sort of situation the Agency committee had in mind in justifying its activities because ‘ provincial associations have become inert and inefficient ’ with the result that local groups concluded ‘ their own individual exertions were too little sustained by those of similar bodies elsewhere to be of real utility ’ . |
| 22 | This form of socialism , based upon the accountability of the state to society rather than vice versa , would take a long time to develop , but it was this form of socialism that supporters of perestroika hoped the Party Conference would develop further — as indeed it did . |
| 23 | It was this discrepancy of reaction that we found particularly striking and instructive . |
| 24 | It was this colony of gannets that in 1860 was joined by a black-browed albatross , a lost wanderer from the southern oceans . |
| 25 | It was this aspect of Leavisism that Oxford English , with its broad though often flaccid eclecticism , was most opposed to . |
| 26 | More plausibly , both males and females are said to return to the pond of their birth to breed , and it was this aspect of toad lore that Dr Chris Reading of Furzebrook Research Station of Dorset and Drs Jon Loman and Thomas Madsen of the University of Lund in Sweden set out to investigate ( Journal of Zoology , vol. 225 , pp201–11 ) . |
| 27 | It was this feeling of injustice on the part of the poor that brought into being the guilds , secular organizations of the laity whose members ' contributions were pooled to endow masses to be sung for the souls of the poor . |
| 28 | It was this habit of self-mastery which made one expect him always to maintain a standard of behaviour which other people felt themselves excused from emulating . |
| 29 | It was this detail of organisation that made Trent fear for the Belpan Republic . |