Example sentences of "[was/were] [conj] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The particular benefits of this approach for this study were that it provided quantitative data on important treatment/intervention issues in a population where group-comparison studies alone would be inappropriate , because of the individual nature of each person 's challenging behaviour and the small number of potential subjects . |
| 2 | So all she could report was that it seemed dark and cruiser-shaped . |
| 3 | The difficulty with writing it down was that it became real to the extent of being in a book , there were two lives , the one in the book and the one which he lived to collect the details for the book one ; he could go further in his head than on the page , the words slowed him down . |
| 4 | The whole raison d'etre of that early Christian community was that it believed certain things of Christ — at the very least , that it was he whom God had raised from the dead . |
| 5 | The economic significance of this division was that it made possible a very high rate of saving . |
| 6 | The real clincher was that it made better tea and beer than the pump muck . |
| 7 | The only advantage of being dumped by Clive was that it made this a lot simpler . |
| 8 | ‘ Thirty years ago Julian Huxley and Eliot Slater speculated that the reason why the disadvantageous schizophrenia gene was not progressively eliminated from the gene pool was that it conveyed some biological advantage such as resistance to infection . |
| 9 | But however the ‘ Conscription of Riches ’ was interpreted , the secret of its success as a slogan was that it fused basic socialist ideas about state control and greater equality with patriotic support of the nation at war . |
| 10 | It has been shown above that those with larger mortgages and those on higher incomes benefit most from MITR , but one of the main arguments originally put forward to justify its existence was that it benefited first-time buyers , enabling them to purchase a house which would otherwise have been beyond their means . |
| 11 | One of its virtues was that it looked temporary : these may be abnormal times , it seemed to proclaim , but one day terrorism will be beaten , and once again doting parents will be able to photograph ambitious children on the steps of No. 10 . |
| 12 | The benefit of the system was that it demanded that society intervened for those who were under great pressure and could not take the stress . |
| 13 | What Lorentz liked about this dramatization of the notorious Düsseldorf sex murderer was that it had all the feel of a newsreel for ‘ there is no acting in the picture … . |
| 14 | The conclusions of one other major research was that it had substantial social implication of personal family in community lives so these papers were discussed in great detail . |
| 15 | But the trouble with the Garden of Eden , Lindsey found herself thinking , was that it had some rather disturbing connotations , not to mention the odd serpent ! |
| 16 | That , that 's , that And your other point was that it had some quite specific information about what the problem was . |
| 17 | Another criticism of the Leeds adjournment system was that it added further stress to socially disadvantaged people already living under stressful conditions . |
| 18 | The main point of the case was that it involved domestic property where the client would suffer ( as a private purchaser ) a relatively great loss if the report were negligent , while the risk that would have been undertaken by the surveyor , if he had accepted liability for negligence , would have been relatively low , since it was a routine survey of domestic property , and for him , as a businessman , the value of the property in question was not relatively a great amount of money . |
| 19 | One notable feature of the gold standard was that it allowed automatic adjustment to take place via changes in expenditure and output . |
| 20 | The positive achievement of this tradition was that it allowed different communities , and their claims over their members , to be acknowledged and valued with a new , official respect . |
| 21 | They er well I think constitutionally it 's very difficult and this is why there is now in a similar sense as why I suggested it to you as a subject , because not only it was er a very emotional story of a glamorous young woman saying I ca n't cope with being treated by the media and other people , I 'm going to retreat but what made it so historic and therefore the treatment of it 's so interesting , was that it presented such an extraordinary constitutional position |
| 22 | What was impressive about the group was that it included six US Nobel laureates in economics and a broad bi-partisan collection of the best of American economic thought . |
| 23 | When Susan Einzig was appointed to the illustration department in 1946 she saw instantly how destructive Minton 's influence could be , for the drawback of his teaching was that it did little to encourage the discovery of a personal style . |
| 24 | One of the good things about the school was that it overlooked open countryside , where there were usually buzzards and kestrels flying around . |
| 25 | ‘ Only when it was in the net did I realise what size it was and it weighed 26 ob 8 oz , ’ added John who went on to bank five other pike , two of 8 lb 8 oz , and others of 10 lb , 11lb and 14 lb . |
| 26 | ‘ The reason it was changed was because it came soft . ’ |
| 27 | It was unoccupied , but whether that was because it went unnoticed or because every family was so large it was never taken by anyone , I do n't know . |
| 28 | One of the reasons why he drank a lot was because it made this possible . |