Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] that a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were n't that a judge has to decide a case , quite a few of Edward 's legal opinions would probably end in a question mark . ’ |
| 2 | But Mr Michael Fallon , the Conservative candidate , said it was right that a quarter of the receipts should go on housing while threequarters went towards repayment of debt . |
| 3 | It was enough that a government official in the OEOB , with its mock-French , slightly creepy grandeur , right beside the White House , had told him not to tell anybody . |
| 4 | ‘ It was just that a couple of times I 'd been looking out , or I 'd just glance up as I passed , and , well , I 'd seen her there . |
| 5 | Not that they needed a fire , it was just that a fire was more civilized . |
| 6 | ‘ At that stage it was just that a body had been found . |
| 7 | The significance was not that a testator 's intentions were allowed to play more freely , but that for the first time the law was dealing with an open rather than a closed system , a system that offered unlimited possibilities for expansion . |
| 8 | The answer was always that a copy would be made and forwarded . |
| 9 | It was simply that a bottle of brandy , even of the kind intended only for the kitchen ( by which I do n't mean something not fit to drink , I mean something one prefers not to drink ) , somehow always turns out in fact to have been drunk by somebody just when it is needed for cooking and has n't been replaced , while whisky is a supply which is more or less automatically re-ordered as soon as it runs out . |
| 10 | It was then that a friend who was also a water-power enthusiast suggested a compressor . |
| 11 | George Sandeman , the company 's general manager flew in from the Douro valley to present Witchery proprietor James Thomson with the award , and it was then that a decision was made to offer a unique dinner to readers of The Scotsman . |
| 12 | It was there that a letter from his brother George eventually reached him , forwarded by one of Coleridge 's friends who had discovered the full story of his flight from Cambridge . |