Example sentences of "that [was/were] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was 1870 ; yet in 1881 Frances Mary Buss [ Miss Buss and Miss Beale/Cupid 's darts do not feel/How different from us/are Miss Beale and Miss Buss ] could say ‘ There is now no such thing as a ‘ woman 's education question ’ , ’ even if that were only a half truth . |
| 2 | ‘ That was simply a letter delivered at the gate just before dusk . |
| 3 | ‘ From what Valesio 's widow has told me , it 's dear that her husband 's contacts with the gang began with a telephone call that was simply a signal for him to go to some prearranged meeting-place . |
| 4 | The kind of job , he thought , that was simply an admission of defeat . |
| 5 | Well that practice did go on for a long number of years where the the riveter was the was the boss of the squad and on the Friday night , when er where it came knocking off time , he would collect the wages and he would divide that up between the squad which would be , a holder-on , a rivet boy , er maybe a putter-in , er again in my time , that was mostly a squad . |
| 6 | Then I was expected , that was rather a nuisance . |
| 7 | I thought that was rather a lot . |
| 8 | ‘ We were criticised in '91 for our lack of marketing expertise … that was both a disappointment and a learning experience ’ , reflected Rowlands in Catania . |
| 9 | That was neither an end , nor a beginning . |
| 10 | That was either a handgun or a wad of kickback dollars . |
| 11 | The thought patterns like Joanne and others the the concept of putting a little circle down and one word in it and expanding that out and being able to stand around and talk erm for three minutes or ten minutes or whatever for a significant amount of time erm that that was also a revelation to me . |
| 12 | and er , but apparently they did a , they did a test and that was also a package where the stuff like that , transfer although those three may of been carrying weapons , they split open the policeman , but this does seem to basically at , well not no , not indiscriminately they did n't say that but they shot innocent people , I mean like I said well the I mean that 's got to kill in those streets and stuff the ricochet 's can go quite easily go through somebody but there , there was , there 's always been claims er , there 's no I R A gunmen there |
| 13 | But that was n't interesting , that was just a trick . |
| 14 | Oh , but of course , ’ she added harshly , ‘ I forgot ; that was just a whim on your part , was n't it ? |
| 15 | Perhaps that was just a case where , in the early stages of the life-cycle , corporate managers acted more like private consumers than industrial purchasers of large-scale equipment . |
| 16 | That was just a couple I did . |
| 17 | Anyway , that was just a symbol . |
| 18 | The hand-claps sometimes seemed to be keeping time with my leisurely steps as I wandered under the arcades in the hot night , but that was just a coincidence . |
| 19 | That was just a pretence to cover up her real affaire . |
| 20 | And I do n't know it was truth he said I 'm just collecting all the mole skins for somebody 's mo For a coat , but that was just a story I think . |
| 21 | In fact I cried when I got to the top , but I think that that was just a release of emotion . |
| 22 | That was just a gimmick , like when they stopped the holiday trains . |
| 23 | That was just a slip . |
| 24 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 25 | and that was just a bowl of soup and a , a roll |
| 26 | If that was just a warning I did n't want to be around when they got really nasty . |
| 27 | People in Walton believe that was just a ruse by the youths . |
| 28 | That is just wicked , using his arse as an ashtray , that was just a classic that was . |
| 29 | That was just a dream . |
| 30 | Unless all that was just a dream , after all , and nothing to do with what really happened . ’ |