Example sentences of "it was [adv] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was thus that radicalism became , historically speaking , respectable . |
| 2 | It was around that time that I spotted an advertisement for CHE ( Campaign for Homosexual Equality ) in the personal column of the Sunday Times . |
| 3 | It was around that time that I began to foster the notion that information was being withheld , that somebody was not telling me everything . |
| 4 | It was n't that money was being stolen or sneaked — everything was down on paper . |
| 5 | Now er it was n't that night I said it , it was afterwards so I said what did you think about the concert then ? |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd like to be able to convince him that it was n't that mob that took a shot at him . ’ |
| 7 | Perhaps it was n't that loneliness chose me , but that I chose it , proudly wrapping myself in it , like a cloak against the pollution of the world . |
| 8 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 9 | ‘ No , it was n't that way at all . |
| 10 | and they have a look and then they say , Oh I 'm sure it was n't that way . |
| 11 | ‘ It is n't true , ’ she denied vehemently , ‘ it was n't that way at all ; it was just — ’ She broke off . |
| 12 | But it was n't that way at all ; it was Rob ! |
| 13 | Was n't , it was n't that supplier than went bankrupt , that was another case . |
| 14 | ‘ It was n't that sort of ball . |
| 15 | ‘ But it was n't that sort of wedding , ’ Philippa said . |
| 16 | It was n't that sort of beauty , it was Nature 's beauty , too complex to copy . |
| 17 | I told you it was n't that sort of relationship . |
| 18 | ‘ Jesus , I hope it was n't that fellow who was canning peas in Peterborough with me during the summer . |
| 19 | It was not that sport was unimportant . |
| 20 | I knew this had been a place of elegance , had been sanctified in literature , but it was not that kind of place to me . |
| 21 | It was not that collision with anything of that kind of size was capable of damaging the field : indeed it had been established that it would require the power of several suns to put even a dent in the electric blue haze which now surrounded and protected the vessel and its contents . |
| 22 | It was not that ruffianism was thought to be funny , but the radical and socialist press wished to place a different emphasis on the criminal question which took full account of the social and material circumstances of working-class life . |
| 23 | It was not that Grom was especially tall , certainly not as tall as an Orc , but he was enormously and infamously fat . |
| 24 | Moreover , it was here that peasant incomes were most often supplemented by handicraft production making them less directly dependent upon the vagaries of the harvest . |
| 25 | It was here that maize ( Zea mays ) was first domesticated . |
| 26 | It was here that RSPCA officers uncovered a catalogue of cruelty . |
| 27 | It was here that disenchantment with the liberalism of the New Deal and its successor the Great Society began setting in , which eventually culminated in the landslide victories for Ronald Reagan in the 1980s . |
| 28 | It was here that Grandfather Denknetzeyan had spent many hours in deep contemplation while the seeds of revolution were scattered all around him , here that he spent his last moments in Moscow before setting out on that final and fateful journey to Petrograd . |
| 29 | It was also that figurine of the women |
| 30 | It was just that September was too late . |