Example sentences of "[conj] it [was/were] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understood that it was what The Wedding Present wanted , but explaining it to the head of the sales force was a problem . |
| 2 | He said that it did not matter how the £3. 1 million was acquired and that it was what the company did with the money that mattered . |
| 3 | Ellie was n't at all sure what a peignoir was , but if it was what the woman was wearing , no she most certainly had not . |
| 4 | But it was one the er er er er , the village green |
| 5 | But it was what the executive council thought the increase in wages should be not what the members thought . |
| 6 | The ‘ image ’ of C. S. Lewis , which many were to find rebarbative , was not , as they imagined , stage-managed or rehearsed , but it was none the less odd for that . |
| 7 | When it came , there was nothing at all ominous in the reason for Christian 's unexpected visit … but it was none the less a bombshell . |
| 8 | But it was she the older , the larger and clumsier , who listened to him over supper . |
| 9 | They were rather pleased with themselves for saying this , because it was something the Gruagach would find quite flattering and , also , it had not referred to the Wolfkings , which would have been extremely discourteous , not to say disastrous . |
| 10 | It is absolutely clear that the Leader of the House has either no authority or insufficient courage to say whether that promise was categorical or whether it was what the country believes it to have been — evidence of a Prime Minister panicked into making a promise that he has no intention of keeping . |