Example sentences of "that was a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm And , of course , that was a symbol of all the problems of money that the king had , and the ordinary citizens of Oxford had in trying to provide him with it , mostly very reluctantly and unwillingly . |
| 2 | Certainly that was a part of it : fear of in love and rejection had sent Jay along the sands away from her , away from the pattern of I-love-her , she-loves-me-not . |
| 3 | That was a part of the Horton and Banstead strategy and wholly consistent with its philosophy of local care ’ . |
| 4 | Again you , you never felt that you were , because you were doing that , you never had the feeling that perhaps you were becoming too much a part of management rather than er simply representing work or did you simply see it as part of your , your job to look after the incentive scheme in that way because it did er that was a part of representing the workforce ? |
| 5 | as opposed to that was a part of being a tenant , you know , for the honour of you pay me rent but you also come and work on my land for how many days |
| 6 | The press immediately took the heat off Margaret Thatcher , went for Norman Tebbit and went for Edwina Currie , and I think that was a part of the success in the build up to the last election , because at a time when the pressure really was on the Prime Minister , like it was a couple of when in the last few months of Margaret Thatcher 's leadership , that 's what happened . |
| 7 | That was a case of an accident when , by reason of the negligence of the tramway company 's motor man , the infant 's mother fell from a tram to the street and was injured . |
| 8 | To Maureen Anne said ruefully , ‘ I think that was a case of ‘ fools rush in ’ . |
| 9 | However , it must be recognised that such claims for compensation would involve an extension of Francovich , both because that was a case of complete non-implementation , not just defective implementation , and because the UK government could argue that its implementation of the Directive in 1981 was done on the basis of its good faith understanding of what European law then required and so there was no element of fault in its decision-making at that time . |
| 10 | That was a case of excess speed . |
| 11 | Erm that was a friend of ours started working for Liverpool Vic and she took one out er took that out the year before we moved . |
| 12 | They used to cost about two hundred pounds in those days and that was a heck of a sum in those days you know that sort of thing , how much they cost and had to be careful of them and all that . |
| 13 | That was a confession of weakness . |
| 14 | He had a large menorah , the traditional Jewish seven-branched candle holder , in his living-room at Stuttgart , but that was a souvenir of his work in Israel . |
| 15 | That was a winning of thirty seven pounds initially . |
| 16 | He sought the means to do something quite different , creating it out of himself as he went along — but he hoped for everyone : a way of looking that was a kind of worship . |
| 17 | ‘ It probably comes from the French word sacque , that was a kind of loose blouse . |
| 18 | and that was a half of his lump sum . |
| 19 | That was a rise of 13% over 1989 . |
| 20 | That was a total of two visits to the crag , some 3 hours in all . |
| 21 | And all I got for that was a couple of tin medals , uh uh , aye dear Aye . |
| 22 | And she did admit that she had been skipping things , you know , and erm I hoped it would go on alright , that was a couple of months ago . |
| 23 | After a long silence the mother said , ‘ That was a bit of a surprise visit . ’ |
| 24 | That was a bit of a shock , cos I was dreaming about summat about a train and Marie going away , and then suddenly I came to and found myself in the station . |
| 25 | Use , for example , ‘ How did you think that went ? ’ rather than ‘ That was a bit of a disaster , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 26 | Oh yes , that was a bit of luck . |
| 27 | That was a bit of an exception , as it was sent to the first Independents Exhibition in New York and , as is the case with all the Independents exhibitions , there was no hanging committee . |
| 28 | As Johnson put it : ‘ You could say that was a bit of ‘ luck ’ , in inverted commas ! ’ |
| 29 | And that , and that was a bit of a all year so that 's , that passed . |
| 30 | That was a bit of luck for you , was n't it ? said Dorothy . |