Example sentences of "it was [adv] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was either this flat or nothing . |
| 2 | It was around this time that Nick Kent started coming down to rehearsals at Riverside . |
| 3 | It was around this time that he met George Underwood who was to become a lifelong friend . |
| 4 | It was around this time that Seth began a new romance , with Susan Schilling , a preacher 's daughter he met at the dentist 's . |
| 5 | It was around this time that ‘ queer-bashing ’ began in Bath , as in the rest of Britain . |
| 6 | It was around this time that Gregory began to miss concerts spasmodically because he wanted to stay in Leeds for personal reasons . |
| 7 | It was around this time that I first discovered the darker side of ornithology — the effect of man on the environment . |
| 8 | Yet it was around this time that he settled for being an actor . |
| 9 | It was around this time that he went to collect his Mercedes from a car showroom and found himself being gathered in for the Lord . |
| 10 | As noted earlier , it was around this time that the appointment of a new teacher led to the consideration of a comprehensive study skills package from another school . |
| 11 | It was around this time there were grave doubts about what might be called the cost-effectiveness of the results achieved by Bomber Command . |
| 12 | It was around this time that the twinkle in the planner 's eye was transformed into a 20-storey tower-block . |
| 13 | I 'm sure it was n't this year . |
| 14 | So the man was happy enough and even at the time , he realized that er it was n't this lad 's ch er mm fault entirely , because the reason he tripped was cos the carpet was loose on top of the stairs . |
| 15 | No , it was n't this week . |
| 16 | But it was not this way from the beginning . |
| 17 | But it was not this group , as Allen knew , with which America had been dealing . |
| 18 | It was just this kind of argument that two company directors put forward when they were prosecuted in New South Wales in 1979 for apparently causing shareholders to lose more than A$22 millions ( Hopkins 1980b ) . |
| 19 | It was just this power and seriousness that had fascinated her in the first place . |
| 20 | It was probably this film which prompted the phrase Action Painting . |
| 21 | It was probably this occasion which prompted Lloyd George to write of Balfour : ‘ I confess that I underrated the passionate attachment to his country which burnt under that calm , indifferent , and apparently frigid exterior ’ ; upon which Balfour 's latest biographer has somewhat severely commented : ‘ By ‘ passionate attachment to his country , ’ Lloyd George , presumably meant Balfour 's backing for him as Prime Minister … ’ |
| 22 | It was probably this inability to recognize defeat that led to his continuing attacks on the Somme and to the prolonged bloodbath at Passchendaele . |
| 23 | It was probably this practice that gave rise to the popular image of witches flying on broomsticks . |
| 24 | It was probably this advance which persuaded Eleanor that the time had come to join her sons . |
| 25 | It was probably this John de Lovetot who acted as bailiff of the escheated honour of Peverel of Nottingham from 1258 to 1260 or 1261 . |
| 26 | Maybe it was best this way , he thought , no time to consider , no time to get scared and piss down your pants leg . |
| 27 | It was exactly this kind of initiative that Darwin would bring forward in the Origin of Species . |
| 28 | Pocock does , however , strive to make his building irregular , and it was primarily this feature of the Gothic that Jane Austen disliked . |
| 29 | Seems like only yesterday ( well it was earlier this year ) that Lucie Fjeldstad , 49 , was boasting about the $100m IBM Corp had given her to lay the foundations of a multimedia business : now she is taking the IBM shilling , also known as early retirement incentives , and quitting her post as vice-president and general manager , Multimedia ; she was behind the Blockbuster agreements . |
| 30 | " It was quicker this way . " |