Example sentences of "[conj] it was [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah well I I had erm access to quite a lot of you know , quite good clothing , er both children 's and adult 's and erm while I did n't feel that it was that people should have to depend on someone else to give them clothing , erm in some ways it went against the grain to do it . |
| 2 | The plaintiff could not prove that the defendant knew it was a secret process either because of its nature or because he had been specifically told that it was and Vaisey J pointed out that if it were really secret it was surprising that the defendant 's employment had brought him into contact with it ; he had been to prison in the past . |
| 3 | I asked him why this change of heart and he said that it was because Harold Wilson had seen fit to put her in the Lords . |
| 4 | One media independent says : ‘ The poster advertising seemed more than it was because awareness was raised by the posters ’ exposure in the press and on TV , which probably doubled the effective budget . ’ |
| 5 | It did n't hurt , honestly , but it looked worse than it was and Lisabeth sort of saw red . ’ |
| 6 | I put it , put it on , B B C two and it was that Gordon on the , on the box . |
| 7 | He became a huge favourite with pre-war fans , who loved his fiercely determined performances , and it was while Bob was playing for us that we came closest to clinching the Southern League championship , being denied on goal average alone by Swindon Town in 1913–14 . |
| 8 | The principle of satyāgraha existed before the term was coined , and it was because Gandhi was dissatisfied with the phrase ‘ passive resistance ’ that he felt the need for a more suitable and more accurate term to designate and describe the principle he was propounding . |
| 9 | And it was as Doyle swung the car out into the traffic again that he glimpsed the girl from the oriental-art shop . |
| 10 | And it was as crime stories , mystery puzzles , that he chose to embody his way of commenting on the follies of mankind . |
| 11 | ‘ Many of our customers could not understand why we might have only one style of nightdress or long-sleeved blouse , but it was because Laura was trying to evolve the most perfect example of that particular item and believed it was more important to have one good example of each than several skirts and dresses , ’ Moira explains . |
| 12 | But it was because Aaron said a mildly humorous comment about somebody in one of Whit 's photos who turned out to be one of Whit 's very good friends . |
| 13 | I skipped the prayers , but it was as Conchis had said , more real than any historical novel — more moving , more evocative , more human . |
| 14 | It was after Jesus was born so we call that B C , no sorry it was n't after it was before Jesus was born we call it B C before Christ . |
| 15 | Unlikely as it was that Richard Branson would ever have quite the impact on teenage sensibilities of Duran Duran , the days he could walk down a busy London street totally unrecognised were surely numbered . |
| 16 | More realistically , though , he conceded that as beautiful as it was as screen art it nevertheless belonged to that category of films ‘ which would not enrich their producers ’ . |
| 17 | The ‘ H. T. ’ who wrote As It Was and World Without End can be heard just beneath the surface of these youthful letters written nearly thirty years before . |
| 18 | These quotations — and many more letters to Edward — amplify , in their chatty , less intense manner , the picture of early courtship recalled by Helen in 1924–6 in As It Was and World Without End . |
| 19 | Except in his early letters to Helen , his reticence about his passionate courtship is almost complete — a fact that may explain , if not excuse , the coldness with which many of his friends and family received Helen 's slightly idealized accounts of their life together in As It Was and World Without End . |