Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] that a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Executive 's Lesbian and Gay Working Party made a number of points , primary of which was that a candidate 's family — if indeed they had one — was irrelevant to an election campaign which ought to be about the candidate 's political platform . |
| 2 | Perhaps Jesus is refuting the popular idea of Messiah , which was that a descendant of David would come as a nationalistic leader , drive the Romans out and restore the kingdom of Israel . |
| 3 | So it was that a generation of highly educated women occupied their minds with Bowlby and Spock and The Joy Of Cooking and little else . |
| 4 | If Heydrich had a regret about life on earth — and he had never been heard to express one — it was that a day held merely twenty-four hours . |
| 5 | And so it was that a man who had tried his hand at a whole variety of working-class jobs but who was no friend of the labour unions could , as part of his episodic film Intolerance , quite effortlessly recreate a clash between workers and police that is so lifelike as to seem like a newsreel and to suggest that perhaps every subsequent labour riot followed its pattern . |
| 6 | Rain never knew how it was that a man who spoke no word of a foreign language could master the intricacies of ordering a favourite type of beer in any country on earth . |
| 7 | Lunch was taken on the terrace alone beneath the warming rays of the April sunshine , and after that she continued her exploration of the house , amazed at the number of rooms that were apparently shut up and wondering why it was that a man like Marc Alexander Vila would choose to live alone in this enormous and obviously expensive mausoleum . |
| 8 | During the long drawn out hostage crisis the American people had watched impotently , wondering how it was that a nation with the supposed military capability to wipe Russia off the map at the push of a button could do nothing . |
| 9 | The rush took me completely by surprise , and I think what contributed to it was that a lot of industry had closed down early , schools were closed , and many people had taken extended holiday . |
| 10 | The axiom with which America confronted them was that a government so controlled could not govern any population not represented in that Parliament . |