Example sentences of "was [adj] [noun sg] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Court of Appeal upheld the defendant 's conviction because there was ample evidence that a purchaser would understand the description ‘ new ’ to indicate that the vehicle had had no previous owner and no previous registered keeper . |
| 2 | There was broad consensus that a united Germany should be part of NATO , albeit with some regard for Soviet security interests . |
| 3 | After a decade of being made to feel that you were somehow lacking as a person if you did n't manage to cram thrice-weekly workouts into your schedule , it was high time that a good reason not to exercise emerged . |
| 4 | There was some evidence that a substantial number of pupils do not know a mnemonic for remembering the number of days in a month . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , by the time of the Queen 's jubilee that summer there was some sense that a good deal of the worst might be over . |
| 6 | It said there was growing evidence that a healthy diet was impossible for many in Britain where , according to European Commission definitions , one in five people were classed as poor . |