Example sentences of "it [was/were] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overlooking the point that if it were the latter he could clarify the matter on the next round , he settled for a direct raise to Four Hearts . |
| 2 | This is a penal measure and the courts must take care to see that this former expression is not treated as if it were the latter . ’ |
| 3 | It is no wonder that what we see becomes identified with , and spoken of as if it were the same as , what we touch . |
| 4 | Ideas about the abnormality of disabled people that arise out of research based on adding together the particular psychological attributes of individual disabled people are then systematically misleading , since they fail to include ‘ social forces , structural features of society , institutional factors and so on ’ ( Lukes , 1973 , p. 122 ) in their explanations — in other words , because they treat disability as if it were the same thing as impairment . |
| 5 | It 's a , I mean it were the same at Christmas were n't it ? |
| 6 | It was the many and varied invaders who did much to overlay that consciousness in complex and competing ways . |
| 7 | It was the least he could do . |
| 8 | It was the least he could do . |
| 9 | It was the least he could do . |
| 10 | It was the least the people whose letters he kept and treasured deserved . |
| 11 | It was the least he could do . |
| 12 | and he said well it was the least I could do under the circumstance . |
| 13 | The inevitable criticism that it was the former was met firmly with the contention that it was the latter , but it had to be admitted that no one could really be sure , and that to embark on such a venture an act of faith was indubitably required . |
| 14 | It was the former they were studying . |
| 15 | Ironically it was the former Labour prime minister Clement Attlee who persuaded Parliament to spend £2 million for a new royal yacht , claiming it would double as a hospital ship in war time . |
| 16 | But it was the former which , as a member of the Government , he was really concerned to promote : Labour 's War Aims Memorandum was to serve primarily as a reason to continue fighting the war . |
| 17 | And if anything fell into the category of being impossible it was the former BR standard pacific Duke of Gloucester . |
| 18 | Happily it was the former . |
| 19 | It was the former Home Secretary who first noticed the deck chair , its legs awash with the incoming tide , part-hidden by the Victorian metal-work of the pier . |
| 20 | He most certainly had few fond memories of the latter employment , but it was the former which caused him to curse his luck at having been born in Derby . |
| 21 | It was the latter who , unable to find a private buyer , announced on 11 April 1989 that BR must continue to operate the 72 mile route , a triumph for the three coordinating bodies — Transport 2000 , The Settle & Carlisle Action Committee and the Friends of the Settle & Carlisle . |
| 22 | Then came the Reverends Brown and Cope , and it was the latter who in 1877 witnessed the radical and excessive restoration of the ancient whitewashed church to produce what from a distance looks almost totally Victorian with its new little lead-covered spire and shingled bell turret . |
| 23 | It was the latter fact that got him so many commissions from the Church of England , who abhorred the Catholic leanings of Pugin and his stable . |
| 24 | It was the latter which so struck Henry Detterding , the Director General of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company , who resolved to build himself a ‘ Butterfly ’ house and commissioned Maufe . |
| 25 | It was the latter 's first innings of the tour . |
| 26 | In the crunch match with Pyestock , though , it was the latter who gained the crucial victory as Mike Guess ( 3 ) , Ian Guess ( 2 ) and Chris Guess outpointed Buddle ( 2 ) and Fittall . |
| 27 | The inevitable criticism that it was the former was met firmly with the contention that it was the latter , but it had to be admitted that no one could really be sure , and that to embark on such a venture an act of faith was indubitably required . |
| 28 | But it was the latter who paved the way for the evolution of vestigial limbs that enabled them to crawl onto the land . |
| 29 | When Calder-Marshall and Malcolm Lowry first met it was the latter who felt flattered , but though Calder-Marshall was a generous friend , there is something poignant in Gordon Bowker 's comment in Malcolm Lowry Remembered that he has ‘ given a great deal of time to writing and speaking about him ’ . |
| 30 | It was the latter which represented new clearings . |