Example sentences of "it [was/were] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was that fiendish Perdita Macleod . |
| 2 | And the farther away they were , the more likely it was that one tribe would dominate the district . |
| 3 | Partly it was for lack of anything else to be curious about , the usual island obsession with trivialities ; partly it was that one cryptic phrase from Mitford and the discovery about Leverrier ; partly , perhaps mostly , a peculiar feeling that I had a sort of right to visit . |
| 4 | Perhaps it was that that made the soldier lower his rifle , out of a sense of pity . |
| 5 | Maybe it was that that precarious balance in her nature — that he loved . |
| 6 | It also , in those days was mileage for the tyres was paid on the number of miles run per tyre , so at the end of the month you could record , you knew what tyres were on a certain bus , you knew of how many miles that bus had done , so you recorded that particular tyre on that bus had run so many miles and it was that that we paid for our tyres that way . |
| 7 | So from a mass master timetable , each bus , route number was interpreted on to a what we called a running board and er it was that that the driver ran to . |
| 8 | It was that that made me see the other side of him . |
| 9 | It 's something that er not always happens like in the back propagation learning and people who invented it did n't realize it was that that important and did n't advertise it . |
| 10 | And so it was that all Hollywood 's difficulties led somewhat accidentally to what Ralph A. Bauer has described as a period whose movies ‘ were perhaps as varied and intriguing ’ as the movies produced in any comparably short period in American history . |
| 11 | In the UK the CAA , too , had been fully involved in every stage of the investigation , and so it was that all the necessary corrective measures were taken as far as the Boeing 707/300–400 series was concerned and the respective airworthiness authorities were fully informed . |
| 12 | Historians have to explain how it was that slower increase up to then permitted an expansion of the home market which the later faster rate of population increase did not reverse . |
| 13 | What they could have in common it would be difficult to guess , unless it was that both were defiantly unacademic and felt the need to make a common front against the teachers — not that learning sat particularly heavy on any of them , either . |
| 14 | ‘ Apart from selling many more Reed titles , ’ he says , ‘ the key fact to come out of it was that more than half the customers who came into our shops to buy a promoted Reed title at a lower price bought on average two-and-a-half books at full price , and so the venture , as far as we were concerned , was highly profitable . ’ |
| 15 | Hare wondered aloud on television why it was that English culture had lost the ability to state clearly that Keats was a better poet , for example , than Bob Dylan . |
| 16 | But so it was that this Hungarian son of a would-be inventor moved towards his abiding preoccupation with scientific ideas . |
| 17 | In any case , the more Western defence planners began to think in terms of genuine forward defence in Europe against a Soviet attack , the more obvious it was that this could never be a realistic policy without a West German contribution . |
| 18 | Scotland were found sadly lacking in the attacking department , and so it was that this was again highlighted against the English back line . |
| 19 | And just as it was that the woman was instrumental in the fall of the human race , so it was that another woman was instrumental in its restoration . |
| 20 | Whatever it was that these men planned , Trent remained certain that it was too sophisticated to have been plotted by the murderers of Colombia 's drug trade . |
| 21 | Their general demeanour was like that of elderly clubmen determined that it should be clearly understood that they were men of the world , fully alive to all the tricks of your Tom , Dick and Harry ; yet their actual questions and comments revealed that they had not the remotest notion what sort of a world it was that these East End people they were listening to actually lived in , or how to evaluate their characters and the plausibility of what they said . |
| 22 | ‘ I really am sorry , ’ he repeated and wondered why it was that these lunches , designed as an escape from responsibility , had begun to weigh on him with the weariness of marriage itself . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , perhaps the most startling statistic contained in it was that some one-third of the rail route mileage carried only about 1 per cent of the freight and passenger traffic , while one-half of the route mileage accounted for only 4 to 5 per cent of total traffic . |