Example sentences of "[was/were] [that] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rule was that as a member in good standing of another church ( and I was a member of the Presbyterian Church of England ) one might do so on a temporary basis ; but that if one found oneself doing so for any extended length of time , one should ask oneself whether one should not be confirmed . |
| 2 | The other was that as a wizard — even a dead wizard of the fifteenth grade , his optic nerves had long since become attuned to seeing into levels and dimensions far removed from common reality , and were therefore somewhat inefficient at observing the merely mundane . |
| 3 | I explained how it was that as a child I had been told I was an eidetiker but that it had meant nothing to me . |
| 4 | I mean we 're all , I 'm sure , basically family with what Darwin 's theory of evolution is , and I do n't really want to labour you by reminding you of it , but I think it 's important to appreciate first of all what his problem was erm and I think that it 's fair to say that for Darwin the problem was that as a naturalist he was aware of the fact that animals and plants are adapted to a quite extraordinary degree to their particular ways of life , and indeed many of his books on orchids and earthworms and so on have a great deal to say about the details of these adaptations . |
| 5 | Since he was not born in the ordinary way , Adam would not have needed one , but the general assumption was that as a man he had a navel . |
| 6 | The reason was that as a result of bullying some Asian children were afraid to eat Indian food at school . |
| 7 | Erm , I think what I said was that as a result of these actions , the payroll would be thirty million less in ninety three than ninety two . |
| 8 | The suggestion was that as a youth Aly had been sent to learn the oriental technique of imsak with the result , according to a close friend , that ‘ No matter how many women Aly went with , he seldom reached climax himself . |
| 9 | Of these perhaps the greatest was that at a stroke all the feckless local officials of whom Wilson complained so bitterly had been removed . |
| 10 | The implication was that with a bit more happening in the sack , hubby would n't have felt he was getting past it and tried to prove his virility by punting up the north face of the Thames . |
| 11 | The fatal , fateful thing was that for a century the device appeared to work : Canada felt and behaved as if it was still part of the empire . |
| 12 | So it was that during a week long break from filming Neighbours in October 1987 Kylie boarded an airliner and left the sweltering sunshine of Melbourne for the cold and rain of an English autumn . |
| 13 | What happened instead was that after a while Filmer and Daffodil appeared in my view , making a diagonal course towards the station buildings , and pretty soon afterwards , accompanied by a lot of bell-ringing and warning hooters , a huge bright yellow diesel engine came grinding and groaning past my window followed by long corrugated silver coaches as the whole of the regular Canadian rolled up the track next to the race train and stopped precisely alongside . |
| 14 | Radcliffe-Brown 's lifelong conviction was that by a kind of Newtonian revolution , replacing the historical speculations of ethnology by a scientific methodology , social anthropology might become ‘ a theoretical natural science of society ’ , in a sociological tradition he traced to Montesquieu , Comte , Herbert Spencer [ q.v. ] , and Durkheim . |
| 15 | The funny thing was that in a way the old fart was right . |