Example sentences of "[subord] it was this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going on down er , the profit and loss account , the tax charge er , is lower as a percentage than it was this time last year . |
| 2 | It 's colder than it was this morning I think . |
| 3 | She had never felt such a queer sensation before and was suddenly sad because it was this man who was going to take her innocence away from her . |
| 4 | To this book ‘ must be given the credit for preserving the ideas of equestrian art to the present day , because it was this book that formed the basis of its renaissance ’ . |
| 5 | This study will , therefore , concentrate on the first wave of evacuation during the ‘ phoney war ’ period because it was this stage that caused most controversy . |
| 6 | The owner of ‘ The Hollybush ’ at Elstree proposed to infill an original coach arch in the pub 's facade and to demolish the timber framed side walls of the passageway behind in order to form a larger and open interior , even though it was this feature that distinguished the building as an historic inn . |
| 7 | But it is seldom given as good an excuse for playing rough as it was this week by the blunder of the guerrilla force that has been fighting it for 23 years in Namibia and by the embarrassing unreadiness of the United Nations peacekeeping force to do its job of supervising the Namibian peace settlement . |
| 8 | She had allowed him to come too close , to penetrate her defences far too easily as it was this evening . |
| 9 | Clearly , less is more , for it was this novel , ‘ Amongst Women ’ , which last year led to McGahern being nominated for a Brooker Prize . |