Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] the [noun sg] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was therefore no longer any reason for or point in hesitation ; and I said that if I were the choice that I would respond to the best of my ability … |
| 2 | Yes , I can now reveal that in a previous life I was the iceberg that sunk the Titanic . |
| 3 | His was the genius that enabled King Edward I to raise great fortresses by threes and fours in the space of five or six summers . |
| 4 | His was the voice that ranted and sneered at the nation 's internal enemies , over the boarded baths at Paddington and Lambeth , the arenas of Streatham and Liverpool . |
| 5 | You were the catalyst that she 's needed all these years . |
| 6 | She did n't think she was the stuff that heroines were made of ! |
| 7 | She was the spoon that impatiently opened your lips and put artichoke purée between them , the arm that lowered you backwards into the tin bath , the water in which you lay and splashed and did not drown . |
| 8 | She was the sort that keeps coming , that never knows when they 're licked … the mad cockerel I once hit with my toy cricket bat — it was an accident , of course it was , but I had to keep hitting it and hitting it until it was nothing but a bloody pulp on splintered sticks . |
| 9 | And the searchlights the the battery that we were The camp that we were near , they opened fire and the battery would open fire at that , and the searchlight anyway came in through the window . |
| 10 | And they were the firm that were make a tunnel up the hill . |
| 11 | They were the sort that hung on . |
| 12 | One thing that frightened him was the thought that , for some reason or other , Busby might prevent them from leaving . |
| 13 | What really fascinated him was the idea that it was such a small thing , in such an obscure corner of the world , and between two such insignificant creatures . |
| 14 | The greatest pleasure I gave him was the fact that nobody knew about me . |
| 15 | What was really getting to him was the fact that alien-fever was proving hard to eradicate in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist . |
| 16 | This is what he hoped for , and one the many things that tended to dispirit him was the fact that it was so little forthcoming . |
| 17 | What did bother her was the realisation that very soon Luke could find himself part of the same mess . |
| 18 | But what was still troubling her was the fact that she had still not broached the subject of Janice . |
| 19 | And what confused her was the fact that she did n't really feel angry . |
| 20 | If it were the case that some of the remaining words were radically different from the approximate values for shape and length they could be removed from the list of candidates . |
| 21 | This argument might hold if it were the case that affectivity were obscure and incomprehensible . |
| 22 | where the box-arrow is used to symbolise the subjunctive conditional construction in English ‘ If it were the case that … , it would be the case that … |
| 23 | ( That is to say , even if it were the case that e.g. broad-class syllables were easy to find , it would be pointless to use them for lexical access if the number of words described by a string of such units was huge . ) |
| 24 | Right , it 's clear i n't it under four rule twenty eight , four , it 's not essential for the disallowance of any cost or interest that er the taxing officer should be satisfied that erm the other party has been prejudiced , in fact that is not a condition precedent to the exercise of his part and disallow interest in this here item , er any prejudice there maybe is merely one factor to be taken into account in other matters and it does seem to me that the fact the court can , can properly and should properly take into account , is , is that erm , it is desirable that to litigation should erm comply with there obligations , either expressly , express or explicit under the rules of the court to comply with matter such as it should have orders part drawn up and served as appropriate , as I say it seems to me that er the plaintiffs 's can be criticized in not erm having perfected the order of Mr Justice er before they did so but er , I have , it seems to me to look at all the relevant pictures in the case , er if it were the case that the plaintiff suffered any prejudice as the result of that claim , clearly that would be a matter which I would have to take into account , but I 'm bound to say it does n't seem to me that the fender of the plaintiffs to perfect the order did in fact cause any prejudice to the plaintiff and indeed if they , the plaintiffs had perfected the order , it seems to me exactly the same course of events as in fact transpired in this case , would actually have occurred and would n't make any difference at all , so unless it 's a matter of simply of er seeking to punish the plaintiff as a matter of discipline , it seems to me there is a , not really anything in the point that the order was not perfected er when it seems to me it should of been , and I , there stood to see the other er circumstances , now it 's quite clear to me having been referred to correspondence , passing between the solicitors that erm although really from a very early stage er the plaintiffs solicitors referring to Mr a letter of early nineteen ninety one indicating that erm the view was being taken that the likelihood was that erm the plaintiffs would have to get their costs out of the defendants share and interest in the premises and er that would be a matter which could only be dealt with when the enquiries director by Mr Justice had been dealt with . |
| 25 | I mean if it were the case that we got on the way to establishing an appropriate atmosphere in the colleges , one where women felt comfortable and where they felt they could get the most from their educational experience , I think that would have profound impact on people 's later lives . |
| 26 | I found out later it was the weekend that he decided to definitely make a run for the presidency . |
| 27 | It was the chance that she would see Alain , that he would suddenly come with his dark , sardonic smiles , his caustic comments and his unexpected kisses . |
| 28 | This had been the story that he 'd used when it had n't seemed so serious , and it was the story that he was sticking with now . |
| 29 | But it was the entente that was at an end . |
| 30 | It was the conviction that there was more to the affair than was capable of being explained upon the arrest of the fugitive Khans which now governed the tone of his response . |