Example sentences of "that [noun] [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here I must admit to a certain prejudice , in that much as I admired Chapman 's engineering brilliance — it was intuitive , radical , lateral-thinking and extremely sharp — I did not share , then or now , the belief that Colin was a constructor in the class of Enzo Ferrari , nor did I feel any faith in him as a man or a leader of men . |
| 2 | Besides , they had been through enough together for Colonel Windsor to know that Tubby was a man — or , at least , he had been . |
| 3 | Absorbing snippets of information too : did you know that Confucius was a gourmet ? |
| 4 | Anxiety here was generated by the fact that William was a Calvinist , hardly more attractive as head of the Anglican Church than a Catholic . |
| 5 | A note stated that Roger was a partner having a sixth and a " two thirtieth part " of mining works at Coniston since July 1692 . |
| 6 | He says that Murray was a friend to everyone . |
| 7 | Prince Charles addressed the conference , saying that racism was a problem of the white society and not the black . |
| 8 | She had accepted his invitation under false pretences , and that was deception — and she had an instinctive feeling that Ven was a man who would abhor deception — and would take her apart if he ever found out . |
| 9 | We all assumed that O was a man with a past . |
| 10 | The little that she 'd been able to piece together was that Pamela was a barrister , that the house did , as Lucy had suspected , belong to her , and that she and Josie had been together for at least five years and probably longer . |
| 11 | He was somewhat mollified to find that Armstrong was a cab and he could ride in the back and scowl at me , but he knew I thought it was a lousy idea going down to Brixton to track down Lewis Luther . |
| 12 | At first he kept saying that housekeeping was a piece of cake and that women made a big fuss about nothing but since the washing machine broke down he has n't said that . |
| 13 | The point was that Jenkins was a nonconformist , a rebel even ; an ‘ unqualified ’ coach who would disdain the Welsh Rugby Union coaching certificate , which to others is a glittering prize , as a scrap of paper . |
| 14 | It is now generally accepted that Frolik was a plant designed to waste MI5 's resources while important spies remained undetected and to sow seeds of distrust between MI5 and the CIA . |
| 15 | Apparently he was under the impression that she had arranged to see Richard again tonight ; he was also under the delusion that Richard was a Belgian whom she had just happened to pick up . |
| 16 | It was she who told me that Doogie was a commis chef at one of the better Park Lane hotels ( and I 'd said I had n't realized his politics were important and she 'd just looked at me ) and she was a journalist with one of the North London suburban weeklies . |
| 17 | She was beginning to feel quite mournful when she remembered that Meredith was a Catholic and would n't be allowed in the church . |
| 18 | Loraine Crescent was a full crescent without access to Hammond Drive , but she fails to say that Lakeside was a cul-de-sac , also without access to Hammond Drive . |
| 19 | Mr Howe states that Ms Robinson was correct in saying that Loraine Crescent was once a full crescent without access to Hammond Drive , but had failed to mention that Lakeside was a cul-de-sac also without access to Hammond Drive . |
| 20 | Paddy used to say that tea was a morale booster . |
| 21 | I lied and said that tea was a habit of mine and I enjoyed company after a hard day . |
| 22 | By normalizing its relations with China , South Korea accepted the Chinese position that Taiwan was a province of China rather than a country in its own right . |
| 23 | Curious to think it overlapped with young realists like Amis , Iris Murdoch and John Wain ; still more curious to think that Wain was a pupil of Lewis and a junior member of Thursday evening meetings in his Oxford college . |
| 24 | The thought made her feel slightly better , but she still found herself tentatively letting herself in , relieved in a way that André was a bit under the weather . |
| 25 | I think that Neil was a bit of a sensitive area . |
| 26 | It was during the time the play was being crafted , and for years afterwards , that Ken was a witness to the bizarre happenings that made up this strangest of all relationships , a relationship which ended with Halliwell murdering Orton and then taking his own life . |
| 27 | ‘ I had never believed that Ken was a homosexual . |
| 28 | I remembered that Clements was a scrounger . |
| 29 | The belief that Labour was a relic of an older past , of the first industrial revolution rather than its successor , took hold . |
| 30 | The idea that energy had a quantum nature married neatly enough with the view that light was a wave motion , but at the same time it set people thinking in terms of particles once more . |