Example sentences of "it [was/were] this [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was this inability to up the run rate that coach Jim Love blamed for the defeat , though it has to be said that Storie had done well to repair a bad start when the Scots lost both openers , Bruce Patterson and Iain Philip , on 17 . |
| 2 | Mrs Blakey would immediately tell her husband and Mr Blakey would immediately go to wherever it was this boy lived and warn him that if he did n't stop the police would be informed . |
| 3 | It was this ability to display a ballerina 's apparent weightlessness and sheer joy in dance that was so impressive when the Spirits of the Air danced in Homage to the Queen , Ashton 's exquisite celebration of the 1952 Coronation which was danced by Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was this ability to encourage , to amuse and draw attention to individual potential , however slight , which enabled him to make such an impact on the teaching of art in the schools of the West Riding . |
| 6 | And it was this concern to avoid amy sectarian connotations which seems to have been uppermost in the minds of the organisers . |
| 7 | It was this desire to win that dragged and sucked them into the war . |