Example sentences of "it was [adv] that [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It was thus that radicalism became , historically speaking , respectable . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was here that maize ( Zea mays ) was first domesticated . |
| 4 | It was here that RSPCA officers uncovered a catalogue of cruelty . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was also that figurine of the women |
| 8 | It was just that September was too late . |
| 9 | It was just that pain I was getting . |
| 10 | It was just that City enjoyed one of those rare days when everything went right , even though some of the Maine Road faithful will have mixed feelings about whether it was an occasion for celebration . |
| 11 | It was later that day . |
| 12 | It was later that morning , at ten o'clock , when Schellenberg knocked on the Reichsführer 's door and went in . |
| 13 | It was later that evening . |
| 14 | It was later that evening that Simon Pardy , released from custody for the time being with a stern warning not to leave the town , went home . |
| 15 | It was later that evening that he took a white muslin dress out of the bag with which he had returned from Paris and asked me to wear it as a nightdress . |
| 16 | It was probably that blow on the head he had received at the end of the spring term . |
| 17 | It was probably that prediction which persuaded Diana to call in Penny after taking her first overdose . |
| 18 | It was best that Maggie and Laura were left alone for a while . |
| 19 | It was exactly that problem . |
| 20 | Well and the fact that it was just their garden , and as far as I can make out it was simply that garden , it would suggest that she 's fallen out with some kids or something like that or somebody and yeah . |
| 21 | It was safer that way . |
| 22 | As for the second charge , that democracy , perhaps like British liberty in the nineteenth century , was parasitic upon empire , A.H.M. Jones points out that it continued to operate in the fourth century , after the loss of empire , and , indeed , was if anything more expensive then than before , since it was then that payment for attendance at the assembly was added to payment for other public duties . |
| 23 | A sweet , deep pain closed about his manhood , and it was then that desire rocketed out of control , and he felt himself become as hard and as high as the beech trees that stood sentinel to Tara 's western avenue … |
| 24 | The next difficulties confronting Theodore stemmed directly from Marseilles 's position as a point of entry into the Frankish kingdom from the Byzantine empire , for it was there that Gundovald , supposedly a son of Chlothar I , landed in 582 , to make a bid for the throne . |
| 25 | It was there that Carlism found its supporters in Old Castile . |
| 26 | In no way , however , has the act of measurement on A brought about a change in B. It was always that way . |
| 27 | It was always that way . |
| 28 | ‘ You make me sound like some kind of tease — it was never that way — ’ |
| 29 | Now he 's admitted it but says it was only that night . |
| 30 | To those concerned about political stagnation , about the need for a change , he suggested , with some effectiveness , that it was enough that change was being wrought in his own party . |