Example sentences of "it was [prep] these [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was with these thoughts that I returned alone to the cottage . |
| 2 | It was to these issues that town planning had to respond . |
| 3 | It was for these reasons that I was unable to accept any of the submissions advanced on behalf of the applicant , and that I therefore concluded , in agreement with the other members of the Appellate Committee , that the appeal should be allowed . |
| 4 | It was for these reasons that a search for more elegant solutions was started in 1969–1970 . |
| 5 | It was for these reasons that Beveridge ( 1948 ) saw the role of voluntary activity fitting best on top of a sound comprehensive foundation of public social services . |
| 6 | It was for these reasons that the first ‘ valves ’ for radios and televisions and computers were evacuated glass vessels , descendants of Crookes ' radiometer and cathode ray tube , rather than semiconductors . |
| 7 | It was for these reasons that the United States in the late 1960s consistently opposed an increase in the official price of gold . |
| 8 | It was for these women that Mrs Molesworth kept her gift shop . |
| 9 | It was for these qualities that he was so widely and profoundly respected and liked by the many many people whose love and sympathy will I am sure prove to you now an enormous uplift and support . |
| 10 | It was during these years that the new Canadian designed Noorduyn Norseman began its long association with Red Lake . |
| 11 | It was during these years that Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany enunciated his famous ‘ yellow peril ’ theory , the idea that the millions of China , led by Japan , would overrun Europe and destroy its civilization . |
| 12 | It was from these regions that Catalan industry was to draw its cheap labour , while the wild valleys of the Pyrenees were an enclosed world with a tradition of brigandage and family feuds ; here Carlism was to take on the violence and cruelty of the local society . |
| 13 | It was from these informants that he pieced together a picture of organised crime as being controlled by key personnel in the police force , local government , business and the legal profession . |
| 14 | It was from these territories that further political disruption derived , affecting directly the kingdom of Kent but drawing Mercians and eastern Saxons into a new power-struggle . |
| 15 | It was in these circumstances that Blackpool bought six open-top trams from the London United Tramways Company in July 1919 . |
| 16 | It was in these circumstances that the LDDC had to go to the Treasury for more money in 1989/90 , and again in 1990/91 , and was very successful in getting what it wanted . |
| 17 | It was in these circumstances that the matter came before Booth J. on 3 April 1992 . |
| 18 | It was in these circumstances that Western governments began to consider initiatives such as a rapid deployment force in the Gulf area and other measures designed to protect their essential interests . |
| 19 | It was in these conditions that Marxist ideas began to gain currency . |
| 20 | It was in these conditions that such amicable and intimate connections as existed between the two societies could begin to make a positive contribution , notably by facilitating and deepening the interchanges between policy-makers . |
| 21 | It was in these essays that he pronounced Attic tragedy , and especially the tragedy of Aeschylus , to be the complete form of art , the original Gesamtkunstwerk whose spirit must be recreated in a German context . |
| 22 | It was in these tumours that the peptide , called human pancreas growth hormone releasing factor , or hpGRF , was discovered . |
| 23 | It was in these areas that the depressed level of grain prices caused most hardship . |
| 24 | And it was in these places that Nazarean tradition was to continue . |
| 25 | I replied that I had not done so-that I was happy in the Foreign Office , and in the House of Lords which I had never contemplated leaving , and that it was in these fields that my strong preferences lay . |
| 26 | It may seem odd to begin a description of Roland Michell with an excursus into the complicated relations of Blackadder , Cropper and Ash , but it was in these terms that Roland most frequently thought of himself . |
| 27 | It was in these years that the main contours of ‘ Thatcherism ’ as a phenomenon were firmly established . |