Example sentences of "it [was/were] [conj] these " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | It was after these two teachers that Mabuni named his style . |
| 5 | By the time Betty returned , her hems wet , she had decided it was because these anachronistic garments dated from an era when there were servants to perform the morning tasks while the quality lounged around in negligé . |
| 6 | It was because these two radically different approaches to a single subject matter , man , were barely distinguishable that the varieties of man came to be discussed under such vaguely defined labels as " peoples " , " races " , " nations " , " tribes " , and , more recently , " cultures " , " language groups " , " speech communities " , " social formations " . |