Example sentences of "was that the [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principle of the old law was that the rich man who had property to pay his creditors was allowed to spend it comfortably in The Fleet or Marshalsea . |
| 2 | Certain it was that the young man had died at Falkland palace in Fife . |
| 3 | The story was that the two men , who shared living quarters in the barn of their farmer-employer , had quarrelled after a drinking bout during the night . |
| 4 | How cruelly ironic it was that the first man to capture her heart and awaken her senses , the man she had waited and longed for , should be metaphorically a ship passing in the night . |
| 5 | The only problem was that the big men in Formula One were not delegated at the Plenary Conference of FISA and so did not have a vote . |
| 6 | The idea was that the few men in the University who could read the original language of the Edda and the Sagas should group together with those who wished to learn , and read their way through the principal texts . |