Example sentences of "it was [verb] [prep] that " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Now to me that means that that , that city organisation must have been very doubtful about the whole future of the Maxwell organisation when it was getting to that stage , and if one looks through the , through the Writs , you know which now , now number about the same number of pages as the as the Good Report , you know you will get an er a feeling of what Maxwell was doing and how that was all all being happened and with leaving all of that with I M R O we just do n't think it 's going to er er we do n't think it would have saved the position . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , it was caused by that man . ’ |
| 3 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |
| 4 | It was seen above that while these workers constitute only 14 per cent of the working population , 70 per cent of Wage Council workers can be defined as ‘ low-paid ’ . |
| 5 | If it was seen like that you ca n't actually solve a erm a linear problem which occurs between these two sets of units . |
| 6 | So it was done in that manner and it was fairly reasonable er and eventually you know , everybody but everybody was , was on this scheme . |
| 7 | It was argued above that , while it in some way reflects the truth about the wordings which were used in classical law , it was not employed as the touchstone by which new wordings were tried . |
| 8 | It was argued in that case that the taxpayer , however , could only be assessed on the income ( the gross income ) to the extent that he had power to enjoy it . |
| 9 | Well now , taking taking into account the fact that there are about three hundred schools here in Oxfordshire and there 's only one school so far that has chosen to even try to opt out , and it was defeated at that school , then I see that is erm a comment on the kind of Education Authority we have here . |
| 10 | The very sight of the sign at the head of the platform , shabby and tourist and third class though it was compared with that of the Golden Arrow at the other end of the station , was enough to raise her to a state she had never reached before , and as the train moved south , she sat in her seat and stared out of the window as though in a trance . |
| 11 | It was thinking about that publisher that had done it . |
| 12 | They should have been resolved in December nineteen ninety two because it was decided at that summit that there would be eighteen extra seats for er the then er united Germany . |
| 13 | It was decided in that case that a court of summary jurisdiction had no power under sections 91 to 96 of the Public Health Act 1875 ( now replaced by ss.92–99 of the Public Health Act 1936 ) , on proof of a nuisance from a sewage disposal works , constructed under that Act , to make an order for its abatement . |
| 14 | He said oh this year it was planned like that . |
| 15 | Gloria had said it was painted like that so it would n't show the blood . |
| 16 | It was born in that self-confident time when other changes she had doggedly forced past party muttering had been rewarded by a step-change in productivity and relatively low inflation . |
| 17 | We do not even know whether it was deposited in that great Ptolemaic foundation , the library of Alexandria . |
| 18 | It was noted above that for an extended period of our history crime was actually falling . |
| 19 | It was noted above that unfavourable combinations of maternal age and pregnancy order appear adversely to affect the height and weight of infants . |
| 20 | It was noted at that time that there were low level information technology utilisation in the departments , consequently the cost of implementation would be a major factor when considering the design of either system . |
| 21 | failed to comply with a condition subject to which it was granted in that |
| 22 | It was felt at that meeting that another bolt debate was required to further air the views of all parties active in the Clwyd arena . |
| 23 | It was observed above that most serious woundings involve the use of a weapon , and that may make it easier to establish intention . |
| 24 | Its working past laid the foundations of a good beef breed and it was improved for that specific purpose during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , by selection rather than crossing ; it was said ( rather coldly ) to ‘ die well ’ , that is , to yield a lot of meat in the best cuts . |
| 25 | and then there was It was improved after that . |
| 26 | Yeah I bet you do because it was used to that and then you stuck in one place . |
| 27 | This accounting method has been used in local government throughout its modern context in the UK , i.e. since 1835 ; indeed , it was used before that as well . |
| 28 | ‘ It was designed like that , ’ said my mother , ‘ on purpose . ’ |
| 29 | It was forbidden at that time to bring wildlife to school . |
| 30 | It was sleeping under that childhood roof which did it . |