Example sentences of "[pron] was that [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The trouble for him was that this manifesto — ‘ the longest suicide note in history ’ — had also made his party entirely unelectable . |
| 4 | And the farther away they were , the more likely it was that one tribe would dominate the district . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ What shocked me was that one wall could make such a difference , ’ he said . |