Example sentences of "that it [was/were] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had given up years ago the delusion that all men were homosexual at heart , and that it was just a question of finding the key to unlock their repressed desires . |
| 2 | He was coaxing me to walk a bit further without having to carry me , by promising that it was just a bit further . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose the newspaper which started it would say that it was just a bit of fun . |
| 4 | We watched as the kite swept across the valley , ascending so high that it was just a speck in the distance , and then swooping gracefully over the horizon , to appear again from behind the next hill . |
| 5 | So those who say arti artificial abortion is unnatural , are I think er on a , on , on , skating on very thin ice , because you could equally well argue that it was just a continuation of a natural trend . |
| 6 | Mr Sisulu said that it was just a draft plan , which had not been adopted . |
| 7 | Equally , the Iranian operation could not be explained because , in its respectable long-term aims , it was complicated ; and most people would doubtless insist , as they did , that it was just a piece of barter . |
| 8 | After the fiasco in Prague I began to wonder whether there was any point in my running in any more relay teams , began to think that it was just a waste of everyone 's time . |
| 9 | Recalled Kenny : ‘ Before a previous Scotland-England game , one of our coaches , Jim Telfer , stepped in with a reminder to everybody that it was just a game of rugby we were going out to play and that we all had responsibilities . |
| 10 | Then it went straight up so fast that it was just a blur and jerked to a halt high over the crowd . |
| 11 | The Minister said that all of the activities of the civil rights movement had indicated that it was predominantly a Republican body , and activities in Derry did not disprove that . |
| 12 | Ace was so much part of her unacknowledged dreams that it was barely a shock therefore to find herself pulled up and into his strong arms . |
| 13 | So much had happened that it seemed incredible that it was barely a week since she 'd crossed the bridge in the opposite direction . |
| 14 | The fact that it was profoundly a work of synthesis was obviously much less important at first , and may even seem not very important now , as one settles down to enjoy it for the first or umpteenth time . |
| 15 | After Pearl Harbor Rhee felt that it was simply a question of time before Korea regained her independence and he could assume power . |
| 16 | Before that it was simply a part of the open fields of Great Bowden , a village a mile or two away . |
| 17 | Eliot 's writings on poetry do not contain a systematic theory , but on two matters of principle he adopted a stance strongly opposed to that of Richards : he refused to accept either that poetry consisted in the use of emotive language , or that it was simply a vehicle for communicating the author 's experience to the reader . |
| 18 | In this regard , the ISS proposals for units and unit credits were consonant with other changes in secondary schools which were being developed at the same time : graded assessment , where the initial belief that it was simply a matter of devising achievement tests soon gave way to much more fundamental re-thinking about allied development work on curriculum content and teaching method ; and also work on profiles/records of achievement . |
| 19 | As for BAT , one contributor responded by arguing that it was simply a device established by the government to deflect community criticism . |
| 20 | The head saw a possible solution in a more flexible points allocation for ancillary assistance than that which was LEA policy , but recognised that it was principally a matter of lack of finance . |
| 21 | But more important than that it was also a triumph which brought to an end his struggle to win a second Tour title . |
| 22 | At the time I ascribed my inability to an acute sense of boredom ( which , in part , it was ) , but I can see now that it was also a form of rebellion , this time an unconscious one . |
| 23 | When Secretary of State Marshall was cabling the Embassy in Paris that Ho Chi Minh had direct Communist connections — whether or not this was a fact depends upon what one means by ‘ connection ’ — he argued that it was also a fact that colonial empires , in the l9th-century sense , were rapidly becoming a thing of the past . |
| 24 | Luke thought that it was probably a mistake , at this stage , to go on about sonnets . |
| 25 | She saw now that it was probably a photograph of the bitch he was going to bed with . |
| 26 | I wrote to the Secretary of State for the Environment and was told that it was really a matter for the chief environmental officer of the local authority , but when I took the matter up with the local environmental officer , his response — and it is to his credit that he responded — was , ’ Well , it may be bad , but it is not really so bad that I must take any action . ’ |
| 27 | If they were satisfied that it was truly a consequence of dishonesty which brought about the further charge and there was , in substance , no difference between that and the first charge , plainly there had been an abuse of process . |
| 28 | Fortunately , I noticed that he had been given a place at a different school from his older brother and that it was actually a matter of filling in the appeal form requesting a place at another school . |
| 29 | I do n't know that it was actually a shop |
| 30 | And she smiled so nicely at Inchbad and Goibniu that everyone smiled back and thought it would be really very interesting to hear about some of the strange lands and the faraway worlds the Humans had visited from the great Feargach Grian , and also that it was always a shame to eat Humans when they were pretty and young and friendly . |