Example sentences of "[that] it [was/were] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He either did n't believe her , or was so unused to accepting answers unquestioningly that it was second nature for him to delve into the nitty-gritty . |
| 2 | When I set myself to search this site , my first little breakthrough came when I uncovered a bronze coin weight ; this was in very poor condition but I was able to make out that it was 17th century in date . |
| 3 | The ministry said yesterday that it was first warned by the Dutch on November 1 that 550 tonnes of Indian rice bran contaminated with lead sulphate had come via Rotterdam to Teignmouth in Devon . |
| 4 | It was from such lofty horizons that it was first introduced in 1839 and it has been in and out of gardens ever since . |
| 5 | His calculations , based on the paper 's numerical sequence , showed that it was first printed in February 1695 , by William Thompson and Francis Bailey . |
| 6 | Surprisingly , Darwin made no mention of the woodpecker finch 's remarkable tool-using behaviour , and it was not until 1919 that it was first described . |
| 7 | Specialist Old Testament study has long answered this question by saying that we have differing traditions of the early history of the people of God : one tradition in which the divine name was known from the earliest times , and another — contradictory — tradition that it was first revealed to Moses . |
| 8 | was in Camplin that it was first established that rape could take place even though there was no force threatened or used provided that the victim did not consent to intercourse . |
| 9 | There is a Dunning story of the Canadian who asked where Dunning was and was told that it was next to Forteviot , a village only a tenth the size of Dunning . |
| 10 | The announcement was first made by my right hon. Friend in the House of Lords during consideration of the emergency provisions Bill — as it then was — I am speaking from memory , but I believe that it was last May . |
| 11 | I think it was about last week 's epi , but they seem to e imply that it was last week 's episode that would |