Example sentences of "that [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes she had the strangest feeling he knew her better than she knew herself , and if that were truly the case then how on earth was she to go on protecting herself ? |
| 2 | If that were indeed the case their Englishness was certainly no impediment to involvement in a cosmopolitan , international world in which French speech and culture was dominant . |
| 3 | That was 1870 ; yet in 1881 Frances Mary Buss [ Miss Buss and Miss Beale/Cupid 's darts do not feel/How different from us/are Miss Beale and Miss Buss ] could say ‘ There is now no such thing as a ‘ woman 's education question ’ , ’ even if that were only a half truth . |
| 4 | ‘ That was simply a letter delivered at the gate just before dusk . |
| 5 | ‘ From what Valesio 's widow has told me , it 's dear that her husband 's contacts with the gang began with a telephone call that was simply a signal for him to go to some prearranged meeting-place . |
| 6 | The kind of job , he thought , that was simply an admission of defeat . |
| 7 | Well that practice did go on for a long number of years where the the riveter was the was the boss of the squad and on the Friday night , when er where it came knocking off time , he would collect the wages and he would divide that up between the squad which would be , a holder-on , a rivet boy , er maybe a putter-in , er again in my time , that was mostly a squad . |
| 8 | Certainly we had a minority of outright failures , whose grasp of their work was negligible , but that was generally the case . |
| 9 | But that was generally the practice of settled people : Zuwaya were scattered over a vast territory , and although they owned land they were not permanently resident on it . |
| 10 | Then I was expected , that was rather a nuisance . |
| 11 | I thought that was rather a lot . |
| 12 | ‘ That was rather the impression that I gathered , sir , ’ the lawyer said with a lift of one ironic eyebrow . |
| 13 | May be I 'm being a little unkind but that was rather the impression I got . |
| 14 | ‘ We were criticised in '91 for our lack of marketing expertise … that was both a disappointment and a learning experience ’ , reflected Rowlands in Catania . |
| 15 | That was neither an end , nor a beginning . |
| 16 | Er I as I recollect it , that was largely the view the the Secretary of State took when he when he approved the plan and indeed there is a relationship between most of the policies . |
| 17 | That was effectively the end of Liverpool 's challenge , and Spartak confirmed their greater class with a second three minutes from time . |
| 18 | That was evidently the conclusion reached by the magistrate in the present case . |
| 19 | Influenced by our strong local-government showing in Birmingham and the Midlands , I advised June and that was clearly the majority view . |
| 20 | In 1923 , when the Liberals found themselves in much the same situation as Mr Ashdown is hoping for today , Asquith told them that they ‘ were not sent here by your constituents to play the part of soldiers of fortune ’ , but that was exactly the part they found themselves playing then , and will find themselves playing now if we get a hung Parliament , and they will be unsuccessful mercenaries at that . |
| 21 | That was exactly the point . |
| 22 | Eventually he bent over and told the Head Girl to kick him ; she was amazed but she did so — just stepped forward and kicked him and that was exactly the step he wanted . |
| 23 | As Doug , Meadowbrook would be cast violently against type , but that was exactly the sort of doubletake effect I was interested in . |
| 24 | That was either a handgun or a wad of kickback dollars . |
| 25 | The thought patterns like Joanne and others the the concept of putting a little circle down and one word in it and expanding that out and being able to stand around and talk erm for three minutes or ten minutes or whatever for a significant amount of time erm that that was also a revelation to me . |
| 26 | and er , but apparently they did a , they did a test and that was also a package where the stuff like that , transfer although those three may of been carrying weapons , they split open the policeman , but this does seem to basically at , well not no , not indiscriminately they did n't say that but they shot innocent people , I mean like I said well the I mean that 's got to kill in those streets and stuff the ricochet 's can go quite easily go through somebody but there , there was , there 's always been claims er , there 's no I R A gunmen there |
| 27 | That was also the year of the opening of the new Parliament Buildings at Stormont by the Prince of Wales , who , it was rumoured , was less than enthusiastic about coming to do his royal duty . |
| 28 | That was also the time when the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook claimed that Labour would win by a landslide in the 1987 election . |
| 29 | If my understanding is correct , that was also the conclusion expressed by the Commission in its written observations in the Factortame case ( Case C 221/89 ) , which were submitted before the judgments in Ex parte Jaderow Ltd. and Ex parte Agegate Ltd. were delivered . |
| 30 | But that was n't interesting , that was just a trick . |