Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] that [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Captain John Hughes Hallet of the Planning Staff turned these shallows to the raiders ' advantage , because on the extra-high water of a spring tide it was possible that lightly laden ships and boats might scrape over these flats . |
| 2 | By the mid-1970s , it was clear that neither sensory inputs nor motor outputs had properties which corresponded to the behavioural habituation , as neither showed such decrements in electrical response . |
| 3 | By the time it met , however , the momentum for greater political co-operation within the EC , not least in response to East European developments , was such that more radical reform was put in motion . |
| 4 | Although he put the poem to one side it still continued to worry him , and in October he explained to Mary Hutchinson that the contemporary situation was such that only good work was appropriate ; bad writing , after all , would seem even more trivial or superfluous . |
| 5 | Jerome was confident that even married apostles lived in mutual continence , after the example of their unmarried Lord and his ever virgin mother . |