Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The implications of the title were simply that an organisation had extended its activities beyond exporting to consider markets distinct from its own domestic market . |
| 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 | He was , as I have said , correct in ignoring article 10 and the submissions based upon it if he was right that the law is certain . |
| 4 | Maybe Jeff was right that the man was insufferable and she had simply been bowled over by his formidable good looks and by that quality of heady excitement he exuded . |
| 5 | However , we believe that it was right that the statement should be made in the House , from which have come the decisions that , in our opinion , have done so much to encourage the IRA through the years . |
| 6 | That , in fact , er there are three provinces who are already now contributing more than anyone else that , they feel that the churches should go forward to try and raise the minister 's to what was proposedly that the assembly last year , they should be paid thirteen thousand two hundred but in order to do that see another six hundred thousand pound raised and it is likely that this will be put as a challenge to the churches at assembly . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Goulding J. made it clear that he was not expressing , on an ex parte application , any decided view of the jurisdictional issue , though he accepted that where orders in personam were concerned it was enough that the court should have the party who must obey its order within its power . |
| 9 | It was enough that the girl had made the shoes which she was wearing for this special occasion , she certainly had no place in this night of Emily 's triumph . |
| 10 | It was merely that the procedure had gone wrong . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Not that they needed a fire , it was just that a fire was more civilized . |
| 13 | ‘ At that stage it was just that a body had been found . |
| 14 | It was just that the man he went to see kept him waiting from nine o'clock until almost ten . |
| 15 | I had sedated the sow heavily and she was n't straining much against me ; it was just that the thing was so huge . |
| 16 | It was just that the woman irritated her so much . |
| 17 | It was just that the World Cup had been such a marvellous occasion , a tremendous experience . |
| 18 | The answer was always that a copy would be made and forwarded . |
| 19 | Certainly suspect committee members had attempted to go abroad , but the real reason was probably that the committee had served its purpose by acting as a bait to attract foreign relief organizations ( the ARA drew up an agreement on 20 August ) . |
| 20 | The assumption was also that the ability to communicate confidently and accurately , with a fuller understanding of the processes of communication , equips graduates better for the demands of social and professional life than traditional university teaching methods in language . |
| 21 | One item on lease is a new in-house laundry which was acquired when high bedroom occupancy was anticipate and its was though that the hire cost of linen would be more expensive . |
| 22 | It was now that the gold backing of the currency came under strain and , pushed over by fear of invasion , actually broke . |
| 23 | Time and its buried hoard , however , had only been waiting in the wings , and it was now that the priest was discovering just how perfidious Time could be . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It was simply that the squalor of her house did not affect her . |
| 26 | The conclusion given in both the Johansson studies was simply that the probability of a driver actually detecting a road sign is extremely low , but that some signs are more likely to be detected than others . |
| 27 | Basically that argument was simply that the country could not afford to go on expanding non-productive sectors such as social services . |
| 28 | So in 1973 Andy decided to try and qualify for the Open at Royal Troon — and it was here that an incident occurred that changed his career . |
| 29 | In 1901 , he accepted the post of Missioner to the Deaf and Dumb in Oxford ; it was here that an undergraduate suggested he should try for a University degree at Oxford , but permission was refused . |
| 30 | It was here that the corvina binding was developed . |