Example sentences of "[was/were] it that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think so for two reasons , because erm what was it that one planner said , that planning is the art of which geography is the science . |
| 2 | Why was it that other women did n't mind ? |
| 3 | Was it that alienated man was deaf to the language of the hills and valleys , the forests and the shore ? |
| 4 | Why was it that bad things always happened when you were feeling happy ? |
| 5 | Why was it that British industrialists took advantage of rising labour productivity to reduce their labour force , rather than to develop new forms of production using more sophisticated techniques and making improved products to sell at home and abroad ? |
| 6 | What was it that last reviewer had said ? |
| 7 | Was it that little pub ? |
| 8 | How was it that secondary education for all , the organising impulse behind the 1944 Act , should have been interpreted in so restricted a way ? |