Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more revolutionary proposal of his was that England players should train together regularly , an idea derived from his visit to Holland , where the national players came together for coaching once a week , and were given lectures and ‘ homework ’ exercises . |
| 2 | How glad she was that Tom had finally badgered her into going . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , all I came to tell you was that Matilda has a brilliant mind . |
| 4 | ‘ I asked him was that pounds or dollars and he said dollars , so I said sure that 's not so bad and offered him £5 off the price of a new sweater . |
| 5 | The message Fernando Collor de Mello brought with him was that Brazil , where he would take over from President Sarney in mid-March , no longer wanted to be tagged as a Third World nation . |
| 6 | What seemed likely to him was that Adam had allowed some undesirable person or persons access to the place and it was these vagrants or hippies — there had been a lot of hippies still about then — were responsible . |
| 7 | One of the things that particularly amused him was that Hilary had pushed a red handkerchief into his sleeve as if it were a sign of breeding and distinction . |
| 8 | What did bother him was that Graham used him to get at Barak . |
| 9 | Of course part of it was that McLaren were placing their bets on Prost . |
| 10 | The changes of 1980 left local authorities in what was still a strong and , if they wished , an influential position in determining what it was that governors and schools should put their name to . |
| 11 | And so it was that plans went ahead . |
| 12 | I do n't know how long it was that things had been going badly for them but I do know there were problems . |
| 13 | But the larger and more important the elected body , the more likely it was that women 's suitability — and especially married women 's suitability — would be called into question . |
| 14 | And in the meantime , since he had spoken of things she ought to learn , she would see if he could tell her just what it was that women like Marie Moon and Audrey Covington-Pym did to stop themselves from bearing child after child after child . |
| 15 | Thus it was that Mrs Clamp found herself looking after my father while he insisted on looking after me . |
| 16 | I put it , put it on , B B C two and it was that Gordon on the , on the box . |
| 17 | Right , I 've just got a , two or three minutes , I 've just wan na get something quickly done before we , we close and I 'm not gon na look up all the references , because your get them for next week any way in , in the house group , but , now , now in a sense it 's difficult to understand to take all this in after all his God and were people , how do we understand Jesus , it 's , it 's difficult , however knowing something about them does help us to understand something important , it helps us to understand what happened when Jesus ascended , when he went back to heaven , you see when Jesus arose from the earth the , the disciples who watch him it says there in Acts chapter one , they saw him go up in to the heaven , up into you know in a cloud , have you ever thought what that really means what on earth was it , they saw him go up in a cloud , can you image a sort of great clouds coming and dropping down over the mountain top there and was suddenly whisking Jesus up and then watching Jesus going up in this cloud into the sky , I do n't really think it was quite like that , have you ever wonder why it was that Jesus went up in a cloud , you see what was he doing , he was n't beginning a journey to some far off place in the universe , some distant corner where God the father was , he was n't doing that at all , what do you think a cloud can you , give any suggestions of what a cloud might represent because very often a lot of some of the language in the bible is picture language and it , it , it speaks as something else , what do , what do you think a cloud , does any body have suggestions of what a cloud might speak to us about , or speak to us of , sorry , power yeah , any thing else |
| 18 | It was that Monie Love was n't it ? |
| 19 | They will be of some use in working out what it was that testators hoped to achieve by adding on a trust disposition to provisions at civil law . |
| 20 | Polybius gives his reasons for reporting the figures : " so that it may appear from actual facts what a great power it was that Hannibal ventured to attack , and how mighty was that empire boldly confronting which he came so near his purpose as to bring great disasters on Rome " ( 2.24.1 ) . |
| 21 | Thus it was that Jones ' notebooks are signed by Phillips with the statement |
| 22 | Thus it was that Philip VI , who was not without military skill and experience , felt obliged to seek out and , if possible , defeat the English king and his Norman supporters . |
| 23 | Yet if there was one principle to which classical ( and even post-classical ) law had held fast , it was that trusts were actionable only in personam . |
| 24 | Thus it was that Britain and Spain produced two distinct political responses to the crisis . |
| 25 | It was not that the Americans rose against Spain ; it was that Spain fell away from America . |
| 26 | All Rincewind had to do was shake off his guards , fight his way out of the Tree , find the temple and steal the horse out from under whatever it was that Bel-Shamharoth used for a nose . |
| 27 | And so it was that Osman Abdelal took me from the gas station and up to a small Arab village called Mazraa , clustered round the ruins of an old Roman aqueduct . |
| 28 | And she smiled at Raynor and saw him smile back , and felt renewed and restored , and understood how it was that Bec and the others came to Raynor for help . |
| 29 | And so it was that Luch was taken up to the castle for the second time . |
| 30 | So it was that Huddersfield became the first club to win the Cup with a penalty . |