Example sentences of "[was/were] that [pers pn] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos I would always thought Marks were that it was one day |
| 2 | And the encouraging thing was that they 're all things that a few years ago in the Green Party sort things out they 're all there . |
| 3 | The common link was that they were long-term drug abusers , and they all bought their heroin from pushers in the streets of San Jose and Watsonville , in June and July . |
| 4 | The Bangles ' famed ‘ gimmick ’ was that they were Four Chicks . |
| 5 | A further result of the identification of women with unskilled workers was that they were ideal recruits when the de-skilling of a trade was already happening because of technological change . |
| 6 | The dead giveaway , though , was that they were both way beyond Juvenile Court status and they were both wearing suits . |
| 7 | Her justification was that we were personal friends , which is absolute bullshit . |
| 8 | My first thought was that I was 320 duck-jumps behind and if I was ever going to make the state of shai-hai I would probably have to spend a whole weekend duck-jumping . |
| 9 | One possibility was that it was Roman material introduced when the drain walls had collapsed , for the drain had been cut through Roman deposits . |
| 10 | What she did n't find out until too late was that it was one thing to jump a gap but quite another to stay put on the landing stone when the surface was wet and slippery . |
| 11 | More to the point was that it was some compensation for the lower salary . |
| 12 | When I was young , all we heard about ozone was that it was bracing sea air . |