Example sentences of "and it was this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That happens to be a fact , and it was this Government who set out to do something about it . |
| 2 | This ‘ In nomine ’ of Taverner 's is an almost exact transcription of the section ‘ In nomine Domini ’ of the Benedictus of his Mass Gloria tibi Trinitas ( on the Sarum version of a Vesper antiphon for Trinity Sunday ) , and it was this segment of plainsong , sometimes with quotation of Taverner 's other parts , which served generations of English composers as cantus firmus for contrapuntal ‘ fancies ’ . |
| 3 | Four years later , however , a science programme on Australian radio accused McBride of scientific fraud and it was this accusation that eventually led local health authorities in New South Wales to begin the medical tribunal proceedings . |
| 4 | First , Rousseau 's concept of the ‘ Noble Savage ’ proposed that ‘ savages ’ who lacked the civilizing influence of Western culture were free of mental disorder — and it was this idea that many psychiatrists in England , France and the US latched on to in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries . |
| 5 | ‘ I told them I was leaving after the first gig and it was this bloke from Dik Dik Dimorphic who was going on at me saying that I should n't leave . |
| 6 | In the late seventeenth century a new social attitude towards children began to strengthen , and it was this attitude which John Locke gave literary force and substance in what was to prove as influential as any work that he produced , his Some Thoughts Concerning Education , published in 1693 . |
| 7 | And it was this message which , haltingly , the Tsar and some of his ministers began to communicate . |
| 8 | It was in the woodlanded area that a minor road forked left , and it was this road that , as instructed , she steered into . |
| 9 | The generalist dominates the decision-making procedure and it was this tradition that was heavily criticised by the Fulton Report ( 1968 ) on the civil service . |
| 10 | ‘ Interest ’ , complained a reforming chaplain , was the only stimulant in the new philosophy and it was this philosophy that inspired nineteenth-century liberalism . |
| 11 | In their inception , these authorities were based on the fact that the payer and payee were not on an equal footing and it was this inequality which gave rise to the right to recovery . |
| 12 | Clare had such a sense of adventure — and it was this love of an active life that made what happened doubly hard to bear . |
| 13 | On leaving school he went as a labourer to Hunts Farm ( visible from the 6th green ) and it was this work that brought him to the course . |
| 14 | And it was this ability to get straight to the point and to turn conventional wisdom on its head that earned him the respect of so many staff and others with whom he regularly had to confront thorny questions of Amnesty strategy and its relations with governments . |
| 15 | What it could not agree on was how the budget was to be balanced ; and it was this disagreement that led to the break-up of the government . |
| 16 | To his professional duties he had added the role of Departmental Safety Officer , and it was this experience which took him in 1977 to Imperial College in the new post of College Safety Director . |
| 17 | Outside was the main street , and it was this feature , along with its complete lack of privacy , which made it Alexei 's choice for the performance of his daily ritual of exercise . |
| 18 | The Korean War and several other border wars , backed by the super-powers , had been judged not worth pressing the nuclear button for and it was this consideration which had produced the British H-Bomb in 1957 . |
| 19 | And it was this concern to avoid amy sectarian connotations which seems to have been uppermost in the minds of the organisers . |
| 20 | ‘ I decided that I had to put the headmaster in a position to answer and it was this problem that worried me most — more than the outrageous charges against myself and the effect on my family . |
| 21 | There is , however , one way in which A's intentions can be given validity at least in part , and it was this route which was followed : the senate ruled that a provision of this sort could be interpreted as a trust on B to make over A 's estate to C. The wording A actually used would be along these lines : fidei tuae committo ut Titium heredem instituas . |
| 22 | His imagination was of the refrigerating sort from which the fantasies of boyhood can step with convincing freshness ; and it was this quality , no doubt , that made the stories the instant and almost embarrassing success that they were . |
| 23 | Later , Scotty formed a country band ‘ The Starlight Wranglers ’ with Bill Black on upright bass and DJ Fontana on drums , and it was this outfit which producer Sam Phillips put behind his new signing , a white boy with the sound and feel of a black artist . |
| 24 | More plausibly , both males and females are said to return to the pond of their birth to breed , and it was this aspect of toad lore that Dr Chris Reading of Furzebrook Research Station of Dorset and Drs Jon Loman and Thomas Madsen of the University of Lund in Sweden set out to investigate ( Journal of Zoology , vol. 225 , pp201–11 ) . |
| 25 | He created around himself at Hamilton Terrace a kind of family and it was this aspect of his life that allowed Susan Einzig to conceive of herself as a mother figure . |
| 26 | that was the one bedroom and er and it was this room some what |
| 27 | In the premier league it 's West Ham against Swindon at Upton Park … last season of course they faced each other in the first division … in London Town came out on top and it was this win that sparked their promotion run … so let's hope it 's lucky for them again |
| 28 | It would , however , be a great mistake to dismiss the event as an act of folly without any serious consequences , for the proof of the existence of a serious candidate led to the definite rebirth of Bonapartism as a political force in France and it was this movement which was later to carry Louis-Napoleon to power . |
| 29 | She rather thought that Charles knew what she knew , and it was this suspicion that prompted what was , for her , an early departure . |
| 30 | And it was this convergence that engendered a tradition among the working-class electorate of voting Labour ; Labour came to be identified with working-class interests as it had never been before . |