Example sentences of "was [adj] that a [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . " |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But Atcheson was unaware that a detective sergeant from the RUC 's C13 Anti-Racketeering Unit was posing as the company secretary . |
| 8 | Lord declares that he was unaware that a contract had actually been signed with Harris — though he knew Harris was keen to write the biography — at the point when he wrote his own outline . |
| 9 | He was unaware that a Garda inquiry was being conducted into the allegation , he added . |
| 10 | She had no idea how to proceed during the ceremony and was relieved that a man had to go first . |
| 11 | Somehow I was relieved that a guard was with us because I thought that if there was an accident his friends might try to get him — and maybe us — out . |
| 12 | It was symbolic that a group of prominent and progressively minded intellectuals tried , in 1902–03 , to open a dialogue with the hierarchy of the Orthodox Church . |
| 13 | In retrospect , it was ironic that a year after Syria was partitioned , another small ethnic group took the opposite path to protect its identity . |
| 14 | In light of this appeal it was ironic that a superpower crisis developed from subsequent Soviet efforts to establish a missile base in Cuba . |
| 15 | Rance was convinced that a change of policy was necessary : he told Pethick-Lawrence , ‘ we are in one big morass here which has to be cleared , . |
| 16 | William Beveridge , who was a member of the Committee from its inception in 1934 until 1944 , was keenly aware of this problem of less eligibility and was convinced that a scheme of family allowances could help to overcome it . |
| 17 | He was convinced that a career lay in sport and reckoned the media influenced his perception of himself . |
| 18 | At first , as he battled across the outside pavement and through the raging wind , Cardiff was convinced that a bomb had been detonated on the forecourt outside the office block . |
| 19 | Lord Hailsham , a former Lord Chancellor , said it was paradoxical that a Government dedicated to privatisation should produce a bill whose object was to nationalise the judiciary and the legal profession . |
| 20 | It was unthinkable that a miner 's son should be given such a high office in front of a number of so-called ‘ acceptable people , ’ whose political careers had trod the well-known track through privilege and patronage . |
| 21 | It was right that the poor Jewish scholar should marry the daughter of the richest local merchant , because it was unthinkable that a community which respected learning should reward its luminaries with nothing more tangible than praise . |
| 22 | It was unthinkable that a Bonaparte , the heir to the throne , should not receive a baptism of fire and the Prince was held to be old enough to face up to this . |
| 23 | Novell said it was likely that a version of UnixWare for the PC-9800 line from NEC Corp , which dominates the Japanese market , would be developed , although no date was committed . |
| 24 | More than 95pc of calls were answered within the government 's deadline of 19 minutes but it was inevitable that a handful would cause problems . |
| 25 | In the days before floodlighting it was obvious that a game starting at five o'clock could not possibly run its full course , but the referee went ahead , fearing trouble from a crowd that had waited over two hours . |
| 26 | He was confident that a letter to the government in Peking would secure us a gift from the People 's Republic of a brace of breeding yaks . |
| 27 | When Philip Jessup visited MacArthur in January 1950 the general stated that the Soviet Union should perceive the advantages to be derived from a Japanese treaty and he was sure that a diplomat like Jacob Malik would appreciate the position . |
| 28 | He was sure that a bishop was not stopped by his bishoping from going on with some scholarly work . |
| 29 | In the television debate Mr Goddard sounded like a petulant school master who was sure that a pupil had done something wrong but could n't prove it . |
| 30 | And I was impressed that a Harley Street gynaecologist was prepared to boil his own kettle . |