Example sentences of "[pron] was [that] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier we described a paradox which was that each user or group of users has a different need for information and the way that is presented to him . |
| 2 | She seemed to skate over the next part of her story , but Julia grasped the salient part , which was that one of the English officers who fought with the Italians had fallen in love with her , promised to marry her and secretly made love to her . |
| 3 | A few yards on and she saw there was no answering wave and she faltered , uncertain if this was Ferdinando or some other lone horseman before whom she would make a fool of herself , but the closer he came the more sure she was that this was her husband and then she chided herself for thinking he had hands free to wave when one was needed for the reins and the other to hold the child . |
| 4 | " Who was that that let me in ? " said Clara , following Clelia meekly up the staircase , and up and up , to the second floor . |
| 5 | One was that some members of the public were unaware that they need not pay and gave in to the pressure of successive threatening letters . |
| 6 | And one was that this bungalow should be retained completely er by members of the Hosiery Finishers in spite of being a national union which of course has still operated , and secondly , that er nobody should go to this union until er er at least when I 've finished that they should be voted for and they were n't going to impose anybody on this union , they 'd vote for somebody from among their own members , which of course operated and that 's operating now . |
| 7 | Before the clampdown , I used to be able to score round here , there was that many places that you can score really . |
| 8 | We was there till six o'clock in the afternoon and it took us from the er ten o'clock in the morning , say about ten when we got there , it took us from ten till six to fire five rounds of ammunition because there was that many there and you had to wait your turn . |
| 9 | The trouble for him was that this manifesto — ‘ the longest suicide note in history ’ — had also made his party entirely unelectable . |
| 10 | I knew perfectly well that he respected the Manager and even liked him though it was against his nature to admit it ; the thing that maddened him was that this had happened behind his back , and for a reason which he obviously found as inadequate as I did . |
| 11 | It was that fiendish Perdita Macleod . |
| 12 | And the farther away they were , the more likely it was that one tribe would dominate the district . |
| 13 | Partly it was for lack of anything else to be curious about , the usual island obsession with trivialities ; partly it was that one cryptic phrase from Mitford and the discovery about Leverrier ; partly , perhaps mostly , a peculiar feeling that I had a sort of right to visit . |
| 14 | Perhaps it was that that made the soldier lower his rifle , out of a sense of pity . |
| 15 | Maybe it was that that precarious balance in her nature — that he loved . |
| 16 | It also , in those days was mileage for the tyres was paid on the number of miles run per tyre , so at the end of the month you could record , you knew what tyres were on a certain bus , you knew of how many miles that bus had done , so you recorded that particular tyre on that bus had run so many miles and it was that that we paid for our tyres that way . |
| 17 | So from a mass master timetable , each bus , route number was interpreted on to a what we called a running board and er it was that that the driver ran to . |
| 18 | It was that that made me see the other side of him . |
| 19 | It 's something that er not always happens like in the back propagation learning and people who invented it did n't realize it was that that important and did n't advertise it . |
| 20 | And so it was that all Hollywood 's difficulties led somewhat accidentally to what Ralph A. Bauer has described as a period whose movies ‘ were perhaps as varied and intriguing ’ as the movies produced in any comparably short period in American history . |
| 21 | In the UK the CAA , too , had been fully involved in every stage of the investigation , and so it was that all the necessary corrective measures were taken as far as the Boeing 707/300–400 series was concerned and the respective airworthiness authorities were fully informed . |
| 22 | Historians have to explain how it was that slower increase up to then permitted an expansion of the home market which the later faster rate of population increase did not reverse . |
| 23 | What they could have in common it would be difficult to guess , unless it was that both were defiantly unacademic and felt the need to make a common front against the teachers — not that learning sat particularly heavy on any of them , either . |
| 24 | ‘ Apart from selling many more Reed titles , ’ he says , ‘ the key fact to come out of it was that more than half the customers who came into our shops to buy a promoted Reed title at a lower price bought on average two-and-a-half books at full price , and so the venture , as far as we were concerned , was highly profitable . ’ |
| 25 | Hare wondered aloud on television why it was that English culture had lost the ability to state clearly that Keats was a better poet , for example , than Bob Dylan . |
| 26 | But so it was that this Hungarian son of a would-be inventor moved towards his abiding preoccupation with scientific ideas . |
| 27 | In any case , the more Western defence planners began to think in terms of genuine forward defence in Europe against a Soviet attack , the more obvious it was that this could never be a realistic policy without a West German contribution . |
| 28 | Scotland were found sadly lacking in the attacking department , and so it was that this was again highlighted against the English back line . |
| 29 | And just as it was that the woman was instrumental in the fall of the human race , so it was that another woman was instrumental in its restoration . |
| 30 | Whatever it was that these men planned , Trent remained certain that it was too sophisticated to have been plotted by the murderers of Colombia 's drug trade . |