Example sentences of "it was these [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is well known that Trish 's expertise is accompanied by unwavering dedication and perseverance and undoubtedly it was these qualities that upgraded the nervous novice to a Grand Prix horse within three years . |
| 2 | It was these qualities which attracted Attlee , who knew that the task he had in mind for his new viceroy would require them all . |
| 3 | Certainly , it was these qualities that drew her to him in the first place , but now … these were not the true reasons why she stayed with him . |
| 4 | It was these conditions that gave rise to the revolutionary movement or Alexander 's reign . |
| 5 | It was these acts , together with the resistance they provoked , which resulted in the growing specification of the sexual within official discourse and a marked polarization of political positions . |
| 6 | It was these crafts — cordwainers , girdlers , fishmongers , wool-packers , for example — which formed the heart of the popular movement , having greatly expanded in numbers during the previous hundred years yet been excluded from political power and forbidden to organize by the aldermen . |
| 7 | Convention , technique , and an empathy with the popular mind all went into the perfecting of the Chaplin act and it was these things that enabled him to become Sennett 's most accomplished pupil and which allowed him to create the cinema 's most appealing and most universal symbol . |
| 8 | It was these communities that saw the greatest pattern of change during the middle ages although , with a couple of notable exceptions , this was a very long process indeed but with some sudden shifts of direction . |
| 9 | The United States had the same sort of missiles in Italy and in Turkey and , before this crisis had developed , President Kennedy had in fact ordered them er to be er er returned to the United States , these missiles had no strategic purpose at all because a major change that had come into the strategic equation was the arrival of the intercontinental ballistic missile , and it was these missiles , really , which held the strategic balance er and were to change in fact radically both international politics and global strategy over the years to come , but I 'm going to talk about that later , the point I 'm making here is that er Khrushchev claimed that the missiles were there in the event of an American assault on Cuba , they were a deterrent weapon in exactly the same way as the defensive deterrent weapons er were d were defensive er for er the United States and for the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | The United States had the same sort of missiles in Italy and in Turkey and , before this crisis had developed , President Kennedy had in fact ordered them er to be er er returned to the United States , these missiles had no strategic purpose at all because a major change that had come into the strategic equation was the arrival of the intercontinental ballistic missile , and it was these missiles , really , which held the strategic balance er and were to change in fact radically both international politics and global strategy over the years to come , but I 'm going to talk about that later , the point I 'm making here is that er Khrushchev claimed that the missiles were there in the event of an American assault on Cuba , they were a deterrent weapon in exactly the same way as the defensive deterrent weapons er were d were defensive er for er the United States and for the Soviet Union . |
| 11 | It was these wars , unsurprisingly , which did most to give life to the ideal of unity . |
| 12 | Yet the really important decisions , affecting the whole shape of politics in the 1930s , were those made in September and October 1931 ; it was these decisions , and not the formation of the National Government itself , which were to determine the configuration of party politics for the rest of the decade . |
| 13 | Perhaps it was these journeys that made him realise to the full how many of the world 's species were on the brink of extinction . |
| 14 | It was these mineral riches which enabled so many Latin American railway companies to build grandiose stations for a passenger traffic which formed an insignificant part of their revenues , to flatter a national vanity which demanded a new ‘ civic excess ’ in the period . |
| 15 | An MC200 pilot claimed one Hurricane damaged , and it is probable that it was these fighters , rather than Bf109s , which attacked Laubscher and/or Pain subsequent to their fight with the biplanes . |
| 16 | It was these contradictions which , in the crisis of 1808–14 , combined with inherited grievance to damage the structure of the Spanish Empire beyond repair . |
| 17 | In an interview shortly before his death , he said , ‘ I think it was these imaginings and wonderings to music — that sort of fantasizing to music — that started me off to wish to be a choreographer . ’ |
| 18 | Most verbs had three consonants , and it was these scribes who superimposed a system of vowels which became the standard text . |
| 19 | Cos it was due to sail on the same day , on the Sunday , you know what I mean and er it was these locks as I 'm telling you about and her a very , very famous firm and er my correspondence come from London because he had offices was there , you know and erm our erm I 've been at the service as I , if I might say so , but in most people it 's surprising how it get 's round and er the jobs that I 've had to do . |
| 20 | It was these men who formed their own alliances and accommodations with Moslem rulers in exchange for peace . |
| 21 | It was these men , perhaps 20 in all , who opened fire with their rifles . |
| 22 | It was these men who travelled into London each day by train from Clapham , Wimbledon , Richmond , Putney , and Barnes . |
| 23 | When the case came to ministerial colleagues , it was these arguments that prevailed . |
| 24 | It was these implications of the greater clarity introduced by the Geneva Protocols on the prohibition of indiscriminate weapons that led the British government , in addition to its general reservation excluding their applicability to nuclear weapons , to formulate further specific reservations in respect of what may constitute a military objective . |
| 25 | ‘ And here it is convenient to refer pointedly to the fact that it is Mr. Matthey , the original lessee , and not the Richardson executors , his assignees , who is defendant to the action and respondent on this appeal , as well as to the further fact that it was these executors , and not Mr. Matthey , who were the real and only actors in the matters to which I have just been referring . |
| 26 | What seemed likely to him was that Adam had allowed some undesirable person or persons access to the place and it was these vagrants or hippies — there had been a lot of hippies still about then — were responsible . |
| 27 | It was these ideas that found favour with the Royal Society . |
| 28 | Dissident chairmen were , however , frequently able to gain the support of other chairmen on specific issues of Area Board independence , and it was these issues that became the substantive ones between the central regime and the Boards . |
| 29 | I felt — I could not be more certain than that — that when I had treated polio cases on previous occasions I had actually sensed wasting muscles making slight quivers , contracting with the pain of a spasm ; and it was these contractions of muscles which , following normal treatment , so often caused shortening of the leg when the muscles withered . |
| 30 | It was these strengths that brought thousands upon thousands of people flocking to the banners on that wonderful wet Sunday in Hyde Park . |