Example sentences of "was [adj] that [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now bearing in mind what we were saying about exchange rates before the break , if the pound was strong that obviously implied that people wanted to buy sterling , but what goods did they want to buy off us ? |
| 2 | He said that it was strange that so few were facing charges after the widespread upheaval of 1989 . |
| 3 | Fellow rebel Sir Teddy Taylor said it was humiliating that so much in Britain depended on unelected German bankers . |
| 4 | It was possible that even a reject like him could be of use in such a godforsaken spot . |
| 5 | However , Captain John Hughes Hallet of the Planning Staff turned these shallows to the raiders ' advantage , because on the extra-high water of a spring tide it was possible that lightly laden ships and boats might scrape over these flats . |
| 6 | Dalgliesh had a respect for Morgan as a man and a detective but was grateful that either duty , tact or a mixture of both had taken him away . |
| 7 | It was interesting that apparently he had n't chosen to . |
| 8 | It was interesting that quite a number saw their being easily located at their place of work as a benefit . |
| 9 | But by March 1951 , it was clear that even this reform did not satisfy the Irish hierarchy who had also been lobbied by the Irish Medical Association to oppose the scheme . |
| 10 | By the early sixties … it was clear that neither the efforts made in the first post-war decade nor the developments outlined in Mr Butler 's White Paper were reducing — or were likely to reduce — the volume of crime or the numbers of persistent offenders . |
| 11 | By the morning of Friday 10 November it was clear that neither Chamberlain nor Long would secure a majority and that some supporters of each of them would not contentedly follow the other . |
| 12 | Only a few of her friends had been active in the Resistance , but it was clear that neither they nor anyone else much wanted to talk about the choices they had all had to make . |
| 13 | By the mid-1970s , it was clear that neither sensory inputs nor motor outputs had properties which corresponded to the behavioural habituation , as neither showed such decrements in electrical response . |
| 14 | In the first place it was clear that well over half the population of England and Wales did not attend any form of religious service at all on that particular day . |
| 15 | But for years the garden , with its extraordinary follies and temples , had been decaying , and it was clear that soon no more than a few heaps of stone would be left . |
| 16 | When the other rabbit spoke , however , it was clear that either he had no interest in what Hazel had said , or else he had some other reason for not questioning him . |
| 17 | They stood to attention , but it was clear that both the administrator and his deputy were unsure of the proper response . |
| 18 | Although there is a lack of reliable data on acute pesticide poisoning , the committee said that it was clear that approximately two thirds of all poisonings were suicide attempts and that a quarter were accidental . |
| 19 | From March 1918 it was clear that only a crushing military victory by one or other side would bring ‘ peace ’ . |
| 20 | The plenum , in the event , made little influence upon the continuing discussion , and by the early 1990s it was clear that only a reconsideration of the very bases of Soviet statehood would be likely to satisfy the aspirations of the various republics and nationalities . |
| 21 | Shipbuilding was in crisis , and it was clear that only the fittest could survive . |
| 22 | On her return she knew that it was he who had plucked the sting but she was afraid that too demonstrative a show of gratitude might be misinterpreted . |
| 23 | It was this that eventually scuppered Horner . |
| 24 | It was this that finally scuppered her opponent . |
| 25 | It was this that finally resolved the men to organize a hunt . |
| 26 | Right , now , erm , were going to have it on the actual headings as far as the minutes concerned cos we did n't deal with anything very much last time , but the next item on the agenda erm , is usually campaigns and Amnesty erm usually has one or two or more campaigns running on a particular aspect of it 's work or a particular country and there was some that really started maybe two or three years ago and which have continued erm in a smaller form since that time . |
| 27 | ‘ I was delighted that so many people responded , which shows their high level of interest in the Force . ’ |
| 28 | When we held our first University reunion outside Birmingham , in London , I was delighted that more than 200 of you came along to hear what is going on in the University now . |
| 29 | It was ironic that now everybody in our district had plenty of money for food they could n't obtain it because everything was rationed . |
| 30 | It was sad that so few could participate . |