Example sentences of "[vb past] that it was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some authorities maintained that it was the first time a single drug had been shown to be useful in controlling psychotic patients . |
| 2 | A study carried out by Kerr for the Department of the Environment found that it was the better properties with gardens that were most likely to be bought ( especially three-bedroomed , semi-detached houses ) while the number of flats purchased remained small . |
| 3 | ‘ We were really nervous , ’ says Michelle West , ‘ but we found that it was the nervous people who stuck with the project . ’ |
| 4 | Gong et al reported that it was the congeners in alcohol and not alcohol itself that produced symptoms in asthmatic patients . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Suffering fever , blindness and paralysis , they reached Lake Tanganyika in 1857 but it was Speke who eventually found Lake Victoria and realized that it was the reservoir which fed the great river . |
| 7 | Ample proof indeed that it had recognized them and it realized that it was the entrance to its home . |
| 8 | Jeremy Healy 's music was loud and passionate , and designer/stylist Judy Blame agreed that it was the only decent stuff he 'd heard all week , adding that French Djs are the worst on the planet and that there is virtually no point in clubbing in Paris until the situation is remedied . |
| 9 | On recovery , Mr Hayden described the stranger to the porter who agreed that it was the same figure he had seen . |
| 10 | The air raids and gas attacks that everyone had feared did not take place but Anne and Sarah agreed that it was the small inconveniences of war that were hardest to bear . |
| 11 | It was interesting to hear different views , and yet we all agreed that it was the people with whom we shared our home that mattered most . |
| 12 | He discovered that Bob was twenty-five , four years his junior , and realised that it was the first time since his brother Joe 's marriage , when they were seventeen and twenty , that he had had a companion of roughly his own age . |
| 13 | A pale blue light puzzled him for a moment , until he realised that it was the Calor gas stove in the galley . |
| 14 | But the longer she stared at that tiny betraying smudge , the more she realised that it was the only explanation that made any sense at all . |
| 15 | I then went on to think about who had clipped Secretary of State Samson 's golden locks and , once again , I realised that it was the right hon. Member for Finchley . |
| 16 | One of the girls had two glasses before she realised that it was the water refreshments and not wine at all . |
| 17 | Summoned to collect a donation from an address on the east side of the city , a few days before the Election , I noticed a poster in the window , and realised that it was the home of a candidate ( now the Member ) for Leith . |
| 18 | I did n't really believe it at first , er , and then I received couple or more phone calls from er various people in the industry who er , who were aware of it and started to congratulate me , and then I realised that it was the truth , that er I really did have a big hit record once again with Blue Velvet . |
| 19 | On Feb. 4 Hor Nam Hong announced that it was the last extension of the Assembly 's mandate , and that elections would be held in 1992 with or without a political settlement . |
| 20 | He was certainly enjoying life more than ever before , and when Eva finally announced that we were moving to London he admitted that it was the right thing to do . |
| 21 | Advocates of the first-past-the-post system argued that it was the only way of delivering strong government , Mr Cook said . |
| 22 | In the case of the fence , those whose swiddens were being devoured argued that it was the responsibility of the goat owners to contain their animals ; the goat owners held that the swidden owners should contribute to the protection of their own gardens . |
| 23 | Hobhouse 's evolutionary method was , however , also reminiscent of Comte since he argued that it was the growing domination of mind over the conditions of life that enables us to appreciate the importance of the collective framework of society . |
| 24 | Students taking an opposing view argued that it was the usage of the media that was evil and not the media themselves . |
| 25 | In the second paper , the Secretary of State for Scotland ( Arthur Woodburn ) argued that it was the duty of the Government to give a lead : |
| 26 | The former ruling party argued that it was the only party able to maintain " peace and stability " , while the MMD was untried and tribalistic . |
| 27 | As for the philosophers , Plato thought that all progress consisted in trying to approximate to a pre-existing model in the timeless world of transcendental forms and Aristotle believed that it was the realization of a form which was already present potentially . |
| 28 | There were a number of rabbits in the net but I never believed that it was the sheer weight of the catch that was responsible . |
| 29 | For example , Friedan ( 1983 ) believed that it was the ‘ feminine mystique ’ which prevented women from leading successful public lives ; the education system was partly to blame for the ideology of the feminine mystique , but equally the solution for women who were trapped in their roles as wives and mothers was to return to college to obtain an education . |
| 30 | He believed that it was the official Opposition and had an undoubted right to take its place as the next in line . |