Example sentences of "was [det] [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All in all , there was little to demonstrate that those who managed schools were working very closely together . |
| 2 | But there was little feeling that any of them were fundamentally critical of nuclear power . |
| 3 | At the time of writing , there was little to suggest that viable palmtop optical media were about to appear . |
| 4 | One look was enough to confirm that this was polio , and that the delay in coming to see us probably meant that we had passed the porodomal , or incubatory stage . |
| 5 | There was a limit to what she could make out , given the angle and that she was trying to see the page upside-down , but what she saw was enough to confirm that this book , or perhaps its predecessor for the previous year , had the potential to tell her exactly what she most needed to know . |
| 6 | It was enough to know that American help might be forthcoming in a war . |