Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] that [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many were convinced that only a proletarian revolution could remove discrimination . |
| 2 | But for years the garden , with its extraordinary follies and temples , had been decaying , and it was clear that soon no more than a few heaps of stone would be left . |
| 3 | From March 1918 it was clear that only a crushing military victory by one or other side would bring ‘ peace ’ . |
| 4 | Shipbuilding was in crisis , and it was clear that only the fittest could survive . |
| 5 | It was unlikely that even a common language could create a common national spirit to unite Spanish-speaking people divided by the salt , estranging sea , but as long as empires based on the principles of allegiance to a monarch were the dominant form of political organization they were very well adapted to face the problems of expanding and then of ruling new subjects . |