Example sentences of "that [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment he stood with his hand on the courier 's shoulder , as though that were a link , however tenuous , with his son . |
| 2 | She wondered if that were a joke . |
| 3 | Naomi 's question is would it be also would it also be in bad taste if an a if that were a picture of an animal subjected to a sort of humiliation ? |
| 4 | Oh that were a shame were n't it ? |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , sorry , that was a mistake , ’ says Stan Gilligrew . |
| 6 | That was a mistake , says Darwin Clark , Buick 's marketing manager . |
| 7 | That was a mistake , leaving the mask behind |
| 8 | ‘ And that was a mistake , Frank . |
| 9 | That was a mistake . |
| 10 | That was a mistake . |
| 11 | That was a mistake , Your Majesty . ’ |
| 12 | For him , that was a mistake . |
| 13 | ‘ I may have said AZT in our interviews but that was a mistake , ’ he wrote . |
| 14 | Then we tried to cut across the fields at the bottom and that was a mistake , they were all ploughed up . |
| 15 | But that was a mistake in more ways than one . |
| 16 | That was a mistake . |
| 17 | I told them I was transexual … maybe that was a mistake because the prosecution service laid the charges for an attack not on a woman but on a man |
| 18 | That was a mistake , was it ? |
| 19 | That was a mistake . |
| 20 | That was a mistake . |
| 21 | I thought that was a mistake then he made . |
| 22 | And that was a fortnight ago when I had the first scan . |
| 23 | ‘ That was a cover story . |
| 24 | That was a tune they 'd be familiar with — oh , by God they would . |
| 25 | erm And , of course , that was a symbol of all the problems of money that the king had , and the ordinary citizens of Oxford had in trying to provide him with it , mostly very reluctantly and unwillingly . |
| 26 | The room tensed , but George shrugged and let it go past , perhaps admitting that was a ball he could n't reach . |
| 27 | ‘ That was a bummer , ’ says Kier . |
| 28 | That that was a holiday that |
| 29 | So that was a contrast from the people near the hospital where I was and , what happened was , we used to do a little service and then anybody that wanted to be seen used to come along and we needed an interpreter and it was a bit like a surgery really , and they would come with any problems , and anyone who was severely ill we would then take back in the Landrover back to the hospital . |
| 30 | Senator Tom Harkin said : ‘ That was a fun , scary movie . |