Example sentences of "it [was/were] this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was this sweetness of tone that made National Tri-Plates a favourite of Hawaiian lap-steel players , although — bizarrely enough — the National company had much higher ambitions for their guitars . |
| 2 | It was this kind of evidence that led us to use the social network model in a systematic way : as Ballymacarrett is the most stable and well-established of the communities , we can conclude that the social conditions there are favourable to the emergence of a close-knit network structure of the kind often found in low-status communities ( Young and Wilmott , 1962 ) , and there is ample ethnographic evidence that a close-knit structure of this kind is capable of imposing normative consensus on its members . |
| 3 | It was this kind of objection which led to the influential doctrine of falsification and the conception of the hypothetico-deductive model of explanation which is sketched below . |
| 4 | Clare had such a sense of adventure — and it was this love of an active life that made what happened doubly hard to bear . |
| 5 | It was this school versus community dispute that formed a backdrop to Valerie Way 's interview with this initial dispute between the two deputy head teachers . |
| 6 | Nowadays , of course , we understand that it was this way of talking about ethical abstractions that made them seem so mysterious . |
| 7 | It was this depth of breeding that encouraged such lively bidding for the Woodhayne stock which sold to 1200gns for Woodhayne Citrine , a Gulliver sired cow offered with a heifer calf by Mavesyn Midas . |
| 8 | It was this separation of which he had been afraid . |
| 9 | We are therefore not surprised to find that it was this part of his work which most nineteenth-century readers chose to ignore , as any Victorian anthology will prove with its selection of passages relating to Nature . |
| 10 | The answer lies in the fact that it was this part of the state apparatus that was dominant under colonialism and freed from political control by the metropolitan power at independence . |
| 11 | It was this characteristic of metal which revealed the manufacturing history of a bronze stand of the Italian Late Bronze Age ( 1250–900 BC ) . |
| 12 | It was this element of genuine separation of powers that appealed to Blackstone . |
| 13 | It was this element of unreality which made tunnelling the most popular scheme for escape . |
| 14 | It was this element of chance , or randomness , that so disturbed Einstein . |
| 15 | It was this conflict between the physical and the spiritual which formed such a break with the past , that and the idea of the Devil . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | It was this vision of order that held his vast empire together and on his death the entire vision collapsed , and the realm rapidly fell into decay and disunity . |
| 18 | ‘ All right , then , tell me what it was this friend of yours had me do for him , and I 'll tell you whether I can do ‘ something similar ’ . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It was this friend of yours who turned up this afternoon . |
| 20 | It was this criticism of the adaptive expectations hypothesis that led to the development of the rational expectations hypothesis . |
| 21 | It was this exposure to the financial sector that attracted the attentions of the three-man management buy-in team which took control of P&W in 1990 . |
| 22 | It was this lack of independence which so appalled her , while at the same time she knew , when it came down to fundamentals , that she had such a vulnerable appendage permanently dependent on her . |
| 23 | It was this lack of division that most effectively concealed from Clara the basic , classic structure of the building , for she had been brought up with the notion that walls must be above eye-level , lace curtains impenetrable , bedrooms facing discreetly into the void . |
| 24 | She wanted to make some sarcastic retort about his being so bossy , but he was already clearing away the plates , not paying the slightest scrap of attention to her , and she realised that it was this lack of attention that really annoyed her . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | It was this subordination of the social and political value of a newspaper to commercial priorities that so exercised politicians and helped get the second and third Royal Commissions on the Press set up in 1961 and 1974 . |
| 27 | It was this change of circumstances which led me in announcing the making of the emergency order to say that W. 's wishes were no longer of weight . |
| 28 | It was this type of information which led to an adjournment debate on child abuse and the practices of witchcraft in the House of Commons on April 27 , 1988 . |
| 29 | He felt it was this type of blanket discrimination against West Belfast which the legislation fails to address and any serious attempt to end discrimination must contain positive discrimination and quotas . |
| 30 | ( iv ) Conveyance or transfer pursuant to court order with husband being released from the mortgage ( wife assuming liability ) ( Eg Precedents 5 , 6 , 19 and 20 ) It was this type of conveyance which caused the most difficulty prior to the passing of the Finance Act 1985 because the Stamp Act 1891 , s57 triggered a charge to stamp duty ( see above ) . |