Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am aware that there was a steady decrease in the casualty figures and this was welcome to the Harris Offensive and also to the Mighty Eighth , but it always appeared to be that the Luftwaffe were just that one step ahead until , of course , the advent of D-Day and the advance of the Allies on the Continent . |
| 2 | Evening no it was somewhat that that horrid word like that 's so bloody funny . |
| 3 | For them it was enough that 1 , a Westerner from a God-forgotten , immoral country , believed and made some attempt to practise . |
| 4 | It was enough that both men understood the facts of the situation , and each other . |
| 5 | The calculation behind the memorial was naturally that most of the women would leave to get married within a few years . |
| 6 | It was just that one word , but it was enough . |
| 7 | It was just that some days could be rather less fine than others . |
| 8 | I was just that some nights I waken up and you know you can actually hear your heart . |
| 9 | It was n't , he thought , that he and Jordan got lines so much worse than anyone else , it was just that more people were listening to them . |
| 10 | It was just that this could have had political implications . ’ |
| 11 | They had been a unit , had shared jokes , exchanged small gifts , written to each other when unable to meet for a week or two ; the assumption was always that this would continue , and expand . |
| 12 | I do n't think there was really that many |
| 13 | In many ways one could argue that there was nothing new in the FMI ; it was simply that many of these changes were almost two decades late in being recommended since they closely resemble many of the proposals contained in the Fulton Committee Report of 1968 ( Cmnd. 3638 ) . |
| 14 | It was simply that most people , while wanting the ends , preferred to walk away from the means : especially when they were distasteful , and most especially when they failed . |
| 15 | It was here that one of the advantages of glass as an experimental material lay . |
| 16 | At Homestead they were guests of the 482 Tactical Fighter Wing which recently had seen action in the Gulg , and It was here that each was given a certificate making them Honorary F-16 Fighter Pilots . |
| 17 | It was here that some of the early meetings of Coleridge and Wordsworth probably took place |
| 18 | It was here that some of Lincolnshire 's most famous sons were educated , including Sir John Franklin , Captain John Smith and Alfred Lord Tennyson . |
| 19 | Aye that was Well that that was on the platform when I got me face burnt and me left hand , which I think was burnt trying to protect me me head or face at the time . |
| 20 | The 19th century was an especially important period , for it was then that many of today 's Territorial Army units were formed . |
| 21 | It was then that some international misunderstanding arose , because the President of South Africa was at the race too and a rumour got around that I had engineered the trip to talk with the South Africans , which of course was not true . |
| 22 | It was then that Fat Watt regarded them most sullenly as though their nearness was a threat . |
| 23 | The story was current when I was there that this distinguished classical scholar , so accustomed to dealing with the textual problems of Thucydides and Greek epigraphy , was somewhat disconcerted on arriving at Bletchley station to be greeted by an evacuee urchin , jeering : ‘ I 'll read yer secret writing , guv'nor ! ’ |
| 24 | What chance was there that this man could ever love her or be faithful to one woman ? |