Example sentences of "[that] it [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spirit of papal statements throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was that it was the duty of the state to oppose freedom of conscience in matters of religion and freedom of worship and to celebrate openly the worship of God ‘ in that way which he has shown to be his will ’ , namely Roman catholicism ( Leo XIII 1903 : 111–12 ) . |
| 2 | Ferranti is now convinced that it was the victim of fraud perpetrated by International Signal and Control which it took over two years ago . |
| 3 | Advocates of the first-past-the-post system argued that it was the only way of delivering strong government , Mr Cook said . |
| 4 | Mr Clarke said that it was the children who first drew his attention . |
| 5 | Gavin Laird , the general secretary of the Amalgamated Engineering Union , said that it was the last ‘ burning issue ’ Labour needed to resolve before the next election . |
| 6 | He used the same language as that employed by the Chinese government to explain away the unrest that the democracy movement unleashed in May and June — namely that it was the work of a ‘ handful of evil-doers ’ . |
| 7 | In Washington , the State Department welcomed the move but hoped that it was the ‘ first step in a process ’ . |
| 8 | The irony was that it was the British Labour Party which now responded more sympathetically towards Europe , since the social charter of the Community , drafted by its French socialist president , Jacques Delors , was in most respects highly congenial to the British left . |
| 9 | As well as the pun , I 'm sure the reason Malcolm chose QT was that it was the postal code around where Steve — who was still the singer at this point — was staying . |
| 10 | No serious historian today accepts the theory that it was the result of a plot or conspiracy ; almost all agree that it followed , almost by accident rather than design , from the confused events of 19–24 August . |
| 11 | By default he alerts us to the fact that it was the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that saw individualist arguments gravitate to the political right and become , however marginally at first , a vocabulary and strategy available to the Conservative party . |
| 12 | But Conran claims that it was the application of the commonsense element of design that was primarily responsible for the retail group 's eventual runaway success . |
| 13 | He had said that it was the duty of any chairman to refer an offer that came from a reputable source to his board and shareholders . |
| 14 | It did not matter that it was the Rose they had grown to like . |
| 15 | Some will argue that it was the decade when ‘ real ’ music was murdered by Stock , Aitken & Waterman or rap , but on the other hand the ‘ real ’ musician of mature years had never had it so good-Chris De Burgh , Fleetwood Mac and Eric Clapton never sold so many tickets , or so many records . |
| 16 | Although the deposed Communist Party leader , Mr Egon Krenz , has been credited with countermanding orders to issue live ammunition to troops standing by to deal with the Leipzig demonstrations , other sources indicate that it was the military district commander who stepped in to avoid bloodshed . |
| 17 | Mr Jack Straw , Labour 's shadow education secretary , said last night that it was the first time in his 10 years in Parliament that responsibility for piloting such an important piece of legislation through committee had been left to such junior departmental politicians . |
| 18 | THE role of the church in helping to topple the Communist order in Poland and East Germany , compounded by the fact that it was the fate of a Protestant clergyman in Timisoara that triggered the unrest in Romania , has raised the prospect of Romanian churches becoming a focus of political resistance . |
| 19 | Someone had thus moved the body , and it had to be assumed that it was the same person who had pushed her on to the plough . |
| 20 | But the counter-argument still held good : that it was the operational control and not the manufacture of a weapon system that made it independent . |
| 21 | In the first three months of 1990 , the guess is that they were again about 13% lower than in the first quarter of 1989 , but there are now hopes that it was the last drop for a while . |
| 22 | In power , it never occurred to him , just as it did not occur to Mr Gorbachev until it was too late , that it was the system itself that was rotten through and through . |
| 23 | Mr Veseth notes that it was the ‘ fifth element ’ , the creative spark , that made Florence rich , commercially and artistically . |
| 24 | It took him a second to work out what it was , that it was the sheep galloping . |
| 25 | Before she dismissed him she said unequivocally that it was the Government 's intention to rebuild Britain 's weakened manufacturing base and reduce the ever-growing importation of manufactured products . |
| 26 | He would plead that the plugs had been planted by someone who bore a grudge against him , and the story would be quickly put round the plant that it was the foreman himself who had fixed it , to settle an old score . |
| 27 | As I opened it , and looked out , I realized that it was the first time I had consciously looked out : before , I had always been hurrying by . |
| 28 | It will be recalled that it was the spectacle of unseemly levity at the pauper 's funeral that launched Lord Shaftesbury on his famous philanthropic career . |
| 29 | Some have maintained that the Liberal Party was being rapidly undermined before the First World War and that its decline was almost inevitable , others , however , assume that it was the First World War which was responsible for the decline of a vapid Liberal Party — the divisions within Liberal ranks creating the political vacuum into which the Labour Party slipped . |
| 30 | By the time Terence O'Neill returned from London to face press questioning on what he intended to do to quell the violence , there was a general notion abroad that it was the Paisleyites who had been violent . |