Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [adv] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you have a reasonable cross section of the country and your result was still that Birmingham was looked down upon as a low status accent , then at least you can your results so . . |
| 2 | It was when tea was over that Mrs Kirkley said to her daughter , ‘ Would you like to take Millie round the garden , dear ? ’ |
| 3 | The most important finding from this study was simply that drivers were able to comfortably give ratings of subjective risk . |
| 4 | The public reaction was generally that parents and doctors should decide . |
| 5 | For the drift of the argument was essentially that men did not assume leadership , but that it was granted to them according to criteria which took merit and experience , as well as birth and social standing , into consideration . |
| 6 | The defence argument was solely that Caldwell could be distinguished on the grounds that in DPP v K there was a gap between the accused 's act and the injury , an argument which the court rejected . |
| 7 | The trouble with Cabinet was not that Harold ran it through little cabals , but that there was no focal point of decision-making at all . |
| 8 | By the weekend , the legal advice was apparently that ministers could tell Parliament to go hang . |
| 9 | He complained publicly , and the word was out that Rourke was turning difficult . |
| 10 | Their concern was not that others might come here one day and identify the place as having been the kidnappers ' hideout ; rather , that those examiners would never discover who the kidnappers had been . |
| 11 | The most fundamental reason was evidently that Hitler was proving incapable of bringing about the fervently desired end to the war , either victoriously or even through a creditable compromise peace . |
| 12 | So the reason was always that people really needed the money rather than they just wanted to work ? |
| 13 | Berlin 's line was now that Hess had flown to England to suggest peace , an idea , they said , that the British government was terrified might catch on . |
| 14 | The problem was not that people had not done their jobs : they had . |
| 15 | The consensus was simply that Hollywood had lost track of what people really wanted but there were also a number of other notions . |