Example sentences of "it was [adv] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was either this flat or nothing . |
| 2 | It was just this kind of argument that two company directors put forward when they were prosecuted in New South Wales in 1979 for apparently causing shareholders to lose more than A$22 millions ( Hopkins 1980b ) . |
| 3 | It was just this power and seriousness that had fascinated her in the first place . |
| 4 | It was probably this film which prompted the phrase Action Painting . |
| 5 | It was probably this occasion which prompted Lloyd George to write of Balfour : ‘ I confess that I underrated the passionate attachment to his country which burnt under that calm , indifferent , and apparently frigid exterior ’ ; upon which Balfour 's latest biographer has somewhat severely commented : ‘ By ‘ passionate attachment to his country , ’ Lloyd George , presumably meant Balfour 's backing for him as Prime Minister … ’ |
| 6 | It was probably this inability to recognize defeat that led to his continuing attacks on the Somme and to the prolonged bloodbath at Passchendaele . |
| 7 | It was probably this practice that gave rise to the popular image of witches flying on broomsticks . |
| 8 | It was probably this advance which persuaded Eleanor that the time had come to join her sons . |
| 9 | It was probably this John de Lovetot who acted as bailiff of the escheated honour of Peverel of Nottingham from 1258 to 1260 or 1261 . |
| 10 | Maybe it was best this way , he thought , no time to consider , no time to get scared and piss down your pants leg . |
| 11 | It was exactly this kind of initiative that Darwin would bring forward in the Origin of Species . |
| 12 | Pocock does , however , strive to make his building irregular , and it was primarily this feature of the Gothic that Jane Austen disliked . |
| 13 | Seems like only yesterday ( well it was earlier this year ) that Lucie Fjeldstad , 49 , was boasting about the $100m IBM Corp had given her to lay the foundations of a multimedia business : now she is taking the IBM shilling , also known as early retirement incentives , and quitting her post as vice-president and general manager , Multimedia ; she was behind the Blockbuster agreements . |
| 14 | " It was quicker this way . " |
| 15 | It was precisely this type of downward shift that was recorded . |
| 16 | For it was precisely this idea that he promoted when he exhibited the drawings at his Gallery 291 , beginning in late May 1916 , and when he wrote about them in an issue of Camera Work the following October . |
| 17 | However it was precisely this paradigm , symbolised by the Thatcherite language of markets and business , products and customers , that so many within the service found offensive . |
| 18 | It was precisely this opportunity to make and unmake Cabinets which led Bagehot to argue that " the ultimate authority in the English constitution is a newly elected House of Commons " : " we are ruled by the House of Commons " . |
| 19 | It was precisely this analysis of how certain expressions lower down in the tree thus fell within the scope of others higher up on a branch that launched modern logic on its powerful and sophisticated account of logical relations among sentences . |
| 20 | In the early thirteenth century Gerald of Wales had advocated the combined use of archers and knights ; it was precisely this combination which , as shown above , was to be employed to such good effect in defensive positions against the Scots in the first half of the fourteenth century , before being used , in broadly similar conditions , against the French at Crécy , Poitiers and , later , at Agincourt . |
| 21 | One must remember that it was specifically this issue of clerical power over schools which was the nub of the controversy in the 1900–14 period . |
| 22 | Wrestling may have lost its Saturday tea time slot on the telly , but the fans still love it and they pack in to watch when there 's a show in town ; and some show it was too this week . |
| 23 | He garbage-dispersed the whodunit concepts because it was always this monster woman behind the scheme to remainder the hero . |
| 24 | IT WAS always this week that the people who ran the residential home began to put up the streamers and tinsel of Christmas . |
| 25 | It was only this January that the Canadian government stepped in to prop up the project taking a 6.5 per cent share which has subsequently been sold to the Murphy Oil Company of Arkansas . |
| 26 | It all seemed like a long time ago , but actually it was only this morning . |
| 27 | When he uttered those words , a lot of development was still taking place in Britain ; in fact it was only this summer that it ended , leaving commercial centres throughout the land replete with unlet space in shopping complexes , offices , business parks and industrial estates . |
| 28 | This was because , Reich argued , it was especially this individual and the family around him which espoused the grand values of nationhood , home and patriarchal authority . |