Example sentences of "was [prep] [adj] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was after that that Edward gratefully accepted the thirteen-year truce which Bruce offered on less than favourable terms . |
| 2 | It was after this that Brother George ( Every ) and in his own way Father Gabriel ( Herbert ) , whose book Faber 's had published , told me that , on arrival at Kelham ( as everybody called the monastic headquarters ) , Eliot had been extremely , if not painfully , shy : so much so that the Fathers had not known how to deal with him . |
| 3 | It was after this that Mrs Kelsall , a midwifery sister and joint team leader , embarked on a project that was to take up most of her free time for the next two years . |
| 4 | It was after this that Vere Barker , his rather grand agent , helped him to get the house in Hampstead and began to up his fees even for radio — for which he continued to work — poems , plays , schools radio , £10 , £12 , £20 sometimes : it all totted up . |
| 5 | And it was into this that Benedict was dragged , through no fault of his own , poor boy ! ’ |
| 6 | It was in 1899 that Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Oak Park , a highly respectable suburb of Chicago . |
| 7 | It might be said that it was in 1973 that Warrant Officer Dirk Coetzee 's real life began . |
| 8 | It was in 1981 that Kendall left Blackburn to become Everton 's eighth manager since 1946 . |
| 9 | It was in 1981 that Kendall left Blackburn to become Everton 's eighth manager since 1946 . |
| 10 | It was in 1989 that Gordon Bell Jr , of the University of Texas in Austin , noticed that around half of the fifty giant aquatic lizards known as mosasaurs showed the remains of healed gashes in their jaws and skulls . |
| 11 | It was in vain that Nicandra cooed and called . |
| 12 | It was in 1935 that MGM ‘ went classical ’ with an elaborate and costly production of Shakespeare 's ‘ A Midsummer Night 's Dream ’ starring a score of Hollywood actors , including Dick Powell , James Cagney , Joe E. Brown , Hugh Herbert and Mickey Rooney . |
| 13 | For it was in 1833 that Owen appeared at the London Co-operative Congress to advocate the creation of the Grand Moral Union of the Productive Classes . |
| 14 | It was in 1988 that Sekers merged with Stoddard Holdings to become Stoddard Sekers International Plc . |
| 15 | Keynes has shown that he and his brothers , six of them according to Florence of Worcester , appear in the witness lists of royal charters for some time before 1006 ; but it was in 1007 that Eadric received his ealdormanry , and Florence says that it was Eadric who had Ælfhelm murdered and the king who blinded his sons . |
| 16 | And it was in 1982 that David Kirby was appointed director of the new London & South East sector . |
| 17 | But there were also very significant differences , and it was upon these that Ritschl himself laid greater weight . |
| 18 | The girl in fig. 69 is a kore , no different in dress or in formal structure from her sisters , and no one has doubted that it was before 480 that Euthydikos , whose name appears on the very simple base , dedicated her ; but she evidences a revolutionary change of spirit . |
| 19 | Hence the mansi remained absi , in the sense of not having a dwelling on them , since those who worked them came out from existing farms and it was from those that dues were paid . |
| 20 | In the audience was Paul Palmer , a geophysicist , and it was from this that Jones became involved with solid state fusion and set out on the road that led to his interactions with Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 21 | It was from this that Powell helped to establish the identity of the muon as a heavy sibling of the electron and distinct from another particle , the ‘ pi-meson ’ or ‘ pion ’ . |
| 22 | It was to these that Frankie clung as he inched his way upward , making tortuously slow progress away from the slippery edges of the beck . |