Example sentences of "[subord] that [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half the force had been at the match , of course , although that was hardly an excuse . |
| 2 | Okay you covered all that okay yeah erm I think the objection bit you could 've been a bit better on that one erm cos that was quite a sort of bad one , well you 're not too sure about sort of giving his name or his telephone number out |
| 3 | Sometimes she had the strangest feeling he knew her better than she knew herself , and if that were truly the case then how on earth was she to go on protecting herself ? |
| 4 | If that were indeed the case their Englishness was certainly no impediment to involvement in a cosmopolitan , international world in which French speech and culture was dominant . |
| 5 | That was 1870 ; yet in 1881 Frances Mary Buss [ Miss Buss and Miss Beale/Cupid 's darts do not feel/How different from us/are Miss Beale and Miss Buss ] could say ‘ There is now no such thing as a ‘ woman 's education question ’ , ’ even if that were only a half truth . |
| 6 | If that was just a warning I did n't want to be around when they got really nasty . |
| 7 | S.B. agreed that if that was indeed the case it would be his duty to take part in it . |
| 8 | Faced with the crisis of inner city decay , for that was really the problem of mid-19th century Paris , many of today 's governments could wish for so favourable a conjuncture . |