Example sentences of "that was [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Well , that was one management style , but it was n't his .
2 That was one thing Jezrael had that she had never attained .
3 That was one thing Andrew could n't do , because he had to be at the Works by eight o'clock and Emma did n't start school until nine .
4 That was one reason Mr Walesa called one .
5 Now that was pure spaghetti Jean .
6 Mr the headmaster has recently applied to Paul 's present local authority London Borough of Merton for a classroom assistant for Paul for thirty hours per week he does not know whether he will get that or a lesser number of hours or none at all , he was repeatedly , in my view quite rightly , extremely reluctant to express any view about what the outcome of his application maybe , but , rather force time is to which we have to guess , his guess was that ten hours might be afforded but he was at pains to emphasize that that was pure guess work .
7 And a major reason for that was comparative operating costs .
8 Well we had a old wooden crane aboard the dredger , that was all hand power , that 's just the old wooden derrick and when they got up to the , up to the dock , they had a , cos they had a crane paint with it or a steam crane .
9 That was all pleasure boats .
10 That was full time union work .
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