Example sentences of "it was [adv] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was soon after this incident that Sien moved in with him . |
| 2 | Derek seems to remember that it was shortly after this change that a couple of what could have been nasty instances occurred . |
| 3 | It was n't that this dispute between my dad and me about whether there was a God or not really meant anything any more , but rather the fact of the history of the dispute — the reality of its course , not the substance of the original disagreement — was what prevented me from ending it . |
| 4 | The same with photos — in fact it was n't until those Steve Double ones that we were really happy with our pictures . |
| 5 | The same with photos — in fact it was n't until those Steve Double ones that we were really happy with our pictures . |
| 6 | It was not that each child was continually talking but every now and then a child would speak to his neighbour or another would leave his place quietly and walk over to another child to speak with him . |
| 7 | It was not that both sides were preparing for some future war to deter the other side . |
| 8 | Software selection and use in this school has been guided by the policy stated above and it was not until such policy decisions were taken that appropriate software could be chosen . |
| 9 | It was not until half way through the sombre reception that doctors told Phil 's anguished family he would survive . |
| 10 | However , it was not until scientific ornithology began to get into its stride in the l9th century that some of the more remarkable aspects of the cuckoo 's behaviour began to be widely known . |
| 11 | This was partly because he was not exceptionally bright while being at the same time exceptionally unimaginative , but it was also because odd carvings and perilous tunnels were all in a day 's work . |
| 12 | It was just that one word , but it was enough . |
| 13 | It was n't , he thought , that he and Jordan got lines so much worse than anyone else , it was just that more people were listening to them . |
| 14 | It was just that some days could be rather less fine than others . |
| 15 | Ironically , it was just as such images of contentment began to vanish that the taste for the picturesque caused the upper classes to fall in love with the idea of the cottage . |
| 16 | It was simply that most people , while wanting the ends , preferred to walk away from the means : especially when they were distasteful , and most especially when they failed . |
| 17 | It was then that Fat Watt regarded them most sullenly as though their nearness was a threat . |
| 18 | It was more than 10 years before Serfaty could bring himself to speak and write about the terrible things that had happened to him and his colleagues . |
| 19 | While the judge said some questions remained unresolved , Microsoft 's lawyer David McDonald concluded : ‘ If it is n't a complete victory , it was more than 95 p.c. of the way . ’ |
| 20 | It was more than five years since she had seen him and she was saying he had n't changed . |
| 21 | At the end of 1886 the tunnel was opened to passenger and goods traffic ; it was more than four miles long and its construction occupied almost fourteen years , at a cost of more than £2 million . |
| 22 | It was more than nine metres long and three metres tall . |
| 23 | Some five days after the last girder had gone up — it was more than fifty metres high — Mrs Goreng came to me , eyes alight and finger on her lips . |
| 24 | Fred Goodyear was so shocked that it was more than eight hours before he raised the alarm . |
| 25 | Amidst scenes of carnage it was more than two hours before Muawad 's death was officially announced . |
| 26 | Amidst scenes of carnage it was more than two hours before Muawad 's death was officially announced . |
| 27 | It was more than two decades since he had taken offence at the term-a term used all the while in court , where the Han were predominant and the few Caucasians treated as honorary Han — yet here , in the Domain , he felt the words incongruous , almost — surprisingly — insulting . |
| 28 | Donna guessed that it was more than two months since she had been to the cottage . |
| 29 | The practice was as old as the Middle Kingdom itself and formed one link in the great chain of tradition , but it was more than mere ritual , it was a living ceremony , an act of deep respect and celebration , almost a poem to the honoured dead . |
| 30 | It was more than 2 hours before accident investigators allowed the digger to be lifted out , so the body could be removed . |