Example sentences of "[adj] it was that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , we 're just going out to have one , ’ said Penelope , thinking how typical it was that Ianthe should long for such a dull and essentially English thing as a cup of tea . |
| 2 | So he ought , thought Sally-Anne , and so he is , and , desperate to change the conversation , to steer it away from dangerous ground , she said , as brightly as she could , through numb lips , ‘ Sha n't we miss the last horse bus home if we do n't leave soon ? ’ thinking how fortunate it was that Stair had not told Dr Neil the other heiress 's identity — Sally-Anne Tunstall might have been a dead give-away ; she really ought to have changed her Christian name . |
| 3 | A panel of medical and scientific experts based them on how likely it was that cancer had been caused by the victim 's working conditions . |
| 4 | And it shows , in Beerbohm and Bowra and as it survives today , how inevitable it was that Pound should have abandoned England and the English just when he did . |
| 5 | Miss Evans replied : ‘ I 'm sure it was that date . ’ |
| 6 | I was n't at all sure it was that of an inevitably high-profile presenter . |
| 7 | I 'm sure it was that meeting that was scaring him . ’ |
| 8 | I ca n't remember who told me but I 'm sure it was sure it was that one . |
| 9 | I 'm not sure it was that brilliant but ha , ha , and it 's to change that law |
| 10 | The late Professor Ragnar Nurkse used to tell his students at Cambridge in the 1950s , of whom I was one , how important it was that Third World countries should develop their agriculture without resorting to the internal combustion engine . |
| 11 | A chronicle source confirms Langland 's remark about bread being made from materials other than grain , namely beans , peas and vetches , but it should be noted that this year , 1439 , saw a great dearth of corn , and the chronicler 's comment probably reflects the unusual nature of the food , at least in his eyes ; we do not know how far this view would be general and how far it was that of a man whose conditions were normally more affluent . |
| 12 | And how strange it was that , after all these months of resolutely not thinking about her old life in the States , she should begin to remember it with such pleasure ! |