Example sentences of "it was this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was this ignorance which had led one of the officers of the LEA to criticize one of the earliest reports submitted as being mainly descriptive and not sufficiently ‘ evaluative ’ ( Clift , Chapter 2 in this volume ) . |
| 2 | It was this sweetness of tone that made National Tri-Plates a favourite of Hawaiian lap-steel players , although — bizarrely enough — the National company had much higher ambitions for their guitars . |
| 3 | If anyone could melt Mrs Richards 's pain , it was this child . |
| 4 | Lord McCluskey added : ‘ It was this child who sustained injuries to his person and who died in consequence of personal injuries sustained by him . ’ |
| 5 | It was this kind of evidence that led us to use the social network model in a systematic way : as Ballymacarrett is the most stable and well-established of the communities , we can conclude that the social conditions there are favourable to the emergence of a close-knit network structure of the kind often found in low-status communities ( Young and Wilmott , 1962 ) , and there is ample ethnographic evidence that a close-knit structure of this kind is capable of imposing normative consensus on its members . |
| 6 | It was this kind of objection which led to the influential doctrine of falsification and the conception of the hypothetico-deductive model of explanation which is sketched below . |
| 7 | Clearly , less is more , for it was this novel , ‘ Amongst Women ’ , which last year led to McGahern being nominated for a Brooker Prize . |
| 8 | Clare had such a sense of adventure — and it was this love of an active life that made what happened doubly hard to bear . |
| 9 | It was this success that made the merchants of England reflect on the desirability of destroying ‘ despotism ’ in Spanish America in order to establish direct trade in a market that British goods and British credit terms would dominate . |
| 10 | It was this success story which prompted the Prime Minister 's Office to inform Laura that her name was on the forthcoming list of Queen 's Birthday Honours ; she was to be offered the OBE if this was ‘ agreeable ’ . |
| 11 | It was this school versus community dispute that formed a backdrop to Valerie Way 's interview with this initial dispute between the two deputy head teachers . |
| 12 | It was this principle which had saved Virgin from collapse in the wake of the Customs and Excise fine ten years before ; it was the principle , Branson believed , that would now secure the company 's future . |
| 13 | It was this principle that seemed now to be inadequate . |
| 14 | It was this principle which applied in Hughes . |
| 15 | ‘ Interest ’ , complained a reforming chaplain , was the only stimulant in the new philosophy and it was this philosophy that inspired nineteenth-century liberalism . |
| 16 | It was this factor which contributed heavily to the successes achieved by the French army in the 1370s . |
| 17 | It was this factor more than any other which caused officials and Ministers alike to adopt such defensive postures . |
| 18 | It was this factor , more than any other , that created the controversial behaviour of a number of government ministers who contrived , when in need of treatment , to procure what were called ‘ amenity beds ’ in single rooms off the wards , but providing identical benefits to those found in the private wards . |
| 19 | It was this realization , along with the fact that he was in M. Dupont 's room , presumably addressing this most crucial personage , that caused me to stop my hand from knocking , and continue to listen instead . |
| 20 | And yet , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I also knew that it was this cold that drew me , this steady destruction of body and imagination , this utter alienness , as though only that could still excite me , as though anything less alien would only leave me indifferent . |
| 21 | It was this Hope that interfered with it all . |
| 22 | The Korean War and several other border wars , backed by the super-powers , had been judged not worth pressing the nuclear button for and it was this consideration which had produced the British H-Bomb in 1957 . |
| 23 | It was this nightmare image of panic and despair that she kept in her mind 's eye as Simon talked his way confidently through his own philosophy of life . |
| 24 | It was this drive that led travellers to comment on the Catalans ' capacity to make ‘ soil out of rock ’ . |
| 25 | It was this work , along with the subsequent brilliance of his public performances , that created his reputation as ‘ Canada 's leading young poet ’ : ‘ His virtues are his own , and they are considerable … at his best he expresses himself , sometimes whimsically , sometimes passionately , in speech which is beyond the capacity of mere formula to produce , ’ commented Allan Donaldson at the time . |
| 26 | On leaving school he went as a labourer to Hunts Farm ( visible from the 6th green ) and it was this work that brought him to the course . |
| 27 | Nowadays , of course , we understand that it was this way of talking about ethical abstractions that made them seem so mysterious . |
| 28 | well , here , I think it fitted in , I think it was this way , it 's a little bit difficult to see from the decision itself , erm this do , when these were notified there were provisions in it for example in relation to admission and expulsion , which the commission objected to and erm , I think one can summarize that this must of happen , the commission said to the marketing question if you do n't remove this restriction or if you do n't erm eradicate what we see as the arbitrary element of |
| 29 | It was this rawness , though , which was at the root of his appeal and of his greatness as an actor , his power as a man . |
| 30 | The Telegraph reported : ‘ It was this try , in fact , that put paid to England 's chances for when he took a bouncing ball in his stride and raced unopposed 60 yards to the line , England were in full attacking trim and had narrowed Wales 's lead from 13 points to four . |