Example sentences of "that [pron] [was/were] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having looked at my passport , the Gendarme made a telephone call during which he turned to look at me , spelling out my name and saying that I was English and a former paratrooper . |
| 2 | There is nothing in the later history of this laconic diarist ( who was my maternal grandmother ) that would suggest that she was other than a normal ‘ teenager ’ of her time . |
| 3 | It was as if someone had asserted that it was inconceivable that a mammal should lay an egg and then a duck-billed platypus had turned up . |
| 4 | Well , it had n't changed much , except that it was bigger and a lot of schoolboys were apparently prancing round the sacred portals of Pierremont House . |
| 5 | He also submitted that it was essential that a jury should reach a rational conclusion by a rational process of thought , and he further submitted that it was wholly irrational for them in effect to hold that the first appellant did not act in concert with the second appellant , but that the second appellant acted in concert with the first appellant . |
| 6 | She was aware of her body , realising that it was taut as a lute string with anticipation . |
| 7 | She stared at it now , hardly able to believe that it was two and a half years since it had been taken . |
| 8 | Nobody pretended that it was other than a one-way process . |
| 9 | The court pointed out that it was rare that a rescuer would be found to be contributorily negligent . |
| 10 | The terrorist might say that he gave sufficient warning of the bomb for the area to be cleared , and that it was unforeseeable that a deaf person should remain on the premises and be killed in the explosion , which was intended only to cause damage . |
| 11 | Although its size is not yet known , suggestions have been made that it was larger than a normal auxiliary fort and may have accommodated either a vexillation , possibly of Legio IX , whose tile-works may have been situated some 8 km ( 5 miles ) south of Carlisle at Scalesceugh , ( though the stamped tiles from there may belong to a slightly later period ) , or the Ala Petriana before its transfer to Stanwix over the river . |
| 12 | Mr Ritblat said yesterday that he was prepared to sell the properties off piecemeal and had put no timescale on the disposal of assets , but that it was conceivable that a big foreign investor might move in to buy the portfolio in its entirety . |
| 13 | The fact that he was black and a Tory gave him a value out of proportion to his contribution to the local Party , so he was frequently trotted out at functions , and encouraged to ask questions of visiting speakers . |
| 14 | Lord declares that he was unaware that a contract had actually been signed with Harris — though he knew Harris was keen to write the biography — at the point when he wrote his own outline . |
| 15 | A letter card came from France , but it told them little except that he was well and a letter followed . |
| 16 | That he was high as a kite on Ecstasy and had thought they were larking about ! |
| 17 | Mr Donovan , 23 , Australian star of the West End hit musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , brought the action after the magazine published a doctored photograph and article which , he claimed , implied that he was homosexual and a liar and hypocrite for denying it . |