Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] that a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ‘ 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 . |
4 | Not that they needed a fire , it was just that a fire was more civilized . |
5 | ‘ At that stage it was just that a body had been found . |
6 | The answer was always that a copy would be made and forwarded . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | It was then that a friend who was also a water-power enthusiast suggested a compressor . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |