Example sentences of "was [adj] that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was strange that a man who had known so much sorrow could radiate so much life . |
| 2 | It was strange that a man of considerable intellect could give so much attention and attribute such importance to a press which was wholly influenced at all times by political considerations . |
| 3 | I was not pleased with this interview , and thought it was strange that the news of my expectations had not made me happier . |
| 4 | It was understandable that the government of each should have tried to reappraise its policies and priorities , and been anxious to explore its range of options . |
| 5 | Surely it was odd that no light at all shone in the corridor ? |
| 6 | And it was odd that the boy was so resistant to being driven home . |
| 7 | It was odd that the party should get so quiet . |
| 8 | Since the scale was twenty-three miles to an inch , it was possible that a deviation of two or three miles would not be marked , but that could not account for the tarmac . |
| 9 | As it was possible that the Medjay had left word at his house , Huy went home . |
| 10 | It was possible that the whole of it could date from 1670 , having been made from two different pieces of silver . |
| 11 | Although it was possible that the site 's nuclear capacity would double in the future , there was no chance of a third power station . |
| 12 | At this stage the viewing angle had not been decided and so it was possible that the material would need to cover the box . |
| 13 | Well , how would you feel if I was to tell you that within the policy it was possible that the sum could be paid , it might even be paid up before death . |
| 14 | He was unable to do this as it was possible that the cause of the defect was faulty fitting . |
| 15 | It was possible that the van had been used to transport Riddle 's body , but if so , where had the body been kept for twenty-four hours ? |
| 16 | Alexei 's father 's first wife was Jotan 's sister , and so it was possible that the suggestion was a serious one . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ said Kāli : it was possible that the festival of ban pasāi had lost its association with the god of the forest before she was even born . |
| 18 | It was ironical that the man she had just rebuked should be the only one who had shown interest in her as a woman during the fifteen months she had been on the station . |
| 19 | ‘ He was upset that the boy would try to tap him for that dreadful suit . |
| 20 | But in spite of clear signals from Virgin Records that it wants to remain independent , speculation was rife that the purchaser might be Sony . |
| 21 | The school receded into the distance as the pupils skimmed above the treetops , and Mildred was grateful that no talking was allowed in flight , so nobody could ask her any awkward questions . |
| 22 | Elisabeth was grateful that the Colonel had no intention of being unkind to his wife . |
| 23 | Of course it was conceivable that the assailant had climbed the yard wall but , without a ladder of some sort , this would have been an acrobatic feat . |
| 24 | As late as the end of July , it was conceivable that the liberation of Paris might be months away . |
| 25 | They have been invited to join judges and lawyers in circumstances where it was inconvenient that the public should be admitted as well . |
| 26 | This was a vexed issue amongst solicitors who were affected in this way ; although it was interesting that the committee of the Legal Aid Practitioners Group concluded that ‘ a levy based on an equal proportion of the payment ‘ was ’ unavoidable ’ . |
| 27 | It was interesting that the growth inhibitor , in potency , stimulated the activity of the enzyme . |
| 28 | Pericles , in the funeral speech attributed to him by Thucydides , was clear that a withdrawal by the citizen from public life into privacy was not acceptable : " Here each individual is interested not only in his own affairs but in the affairs of the state as well … we do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business ; we say that he has no business here at all . " |
| 29 | With the formulation by Schrödinger in 1925 of the wave equation for an electron , it was clear that a solution to it could pave the way to a direct quantitative predictive method for most , if not all , chemical phenomena by using the values of a small number of physical constants . |
| 30 | Despite Anthony Fauci 's assertion that ‘ the virus is the major factor in HIV disease , ’ it was clear that a shift in emphasis is taking place from direct antiretroviral strategies to immune-directed therapies . |