Example sentences of "[was/were] that such a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What astonished everyone , from the time he started winning schools races to the glorious battles at the White City after the war , was that such a weedy looking person could perform such feats . |
| 2 | His unspoken premise was that such a space for freedom would always continue to exist ; he saw Parliament and the courts as guardians of liberty . |
| 3 | The answer was that such a technological acceleration would create more jobs than it displaced . |
| 4 | And was that such a fault ? |
| 5 | Within the general framework of his attack on the humanistic Hegelian tradition of Western Marxism , Althusser 's specific objection to Sartre 's attempt to mediate Marxism with existential subjectivity was that such a move went against the crucial discoveries which had founded Marxism in the first place ; in an extension of Lévi-Strauss ' argument , he maintained that the notion of ‘ man ’ that Sartre used was derived from a particular ideological definition of the human subject which represses Marx 's insight that the human subject is not the centre of history , together with Freud 's that the subject is not centred in consciousness . |
| 6 | And why it was that such a man should want to fight against the Seven . |
| 7 | The core of their problem was that such a device necessarily had to be a computer and a powerful one . |