Example sentences of "[was/were] that a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the idea was that a senior clergy should keep an eye on him , help him and so on . |
| 2 | What the anthropologist Jacques Maquet knew was that a few weeks after finishing this sombre painting , Rothko committed suicide . |
| 3 | I have , in my capacity as Senior Anatomical Pathology Technician , been called upon to collect and look at bones discovered in various places , i.e. sealed behind walls , found in shallow graves , fields , etc. and so it was that a few years ago I became very interested in some questions of osteology . |
| 4 | What I did n't know was that a few months before we started to work together she had written a proposal to the Thai government to start a ‘ machine knitting project ’ in one of her districts . |
| 5 | Swindle was too crude , for if the plan worked , no one would lose a penny ; all that would have happened was that a few banks would inadvertently have lent them money for an undefined period . |
| 6 | It was that a Special Forces Depot be formed at Kabrit , to be commanded by a lieutenant-colonel . |