Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] that [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The trouble for him was that this manifesto — ‘ the longest suicide note in history ’ — had also made his party entirely unelectable . |
2 | And so it was that all Hollywood 's difficulties led somewhat accidentally to what Ralph A. Bauer has described as a period whose movies ‘ were perhaps as varied and intriguing ’ as the movies produced in any comparably short period in American history . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Their general demeanour was like that of elderly clubmen determined that it should be clearly understood that they were men of the world , fully alive to all the tricks of your Tom , Dick and Harry ; yet their actual questions and comments revealed that they had not the remotest notion what sort of a world it was that these East End people they were listening to actually lived in , or how to evaluate their characters and the plausibility of what they said . |
5 | Whatever it was that these men planned , Trent remained certain that it was too sophisticated to have been plotted by the murderers of Colombia 's drug trade . |
6 | ‘ I really am sorry , ’ he repeated and wondered why it was that these lunches , designed as an escape from responsibility , had begun to weigh on him with the weariness of marriage itself . |