Example sentences of "that [was/were] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's it we we took about fifty or so jobs that that were over a hundred thousand pounds , and then we knocked off erm the BES jobs and and jobs which were outside party , jobs where we had n't actually done the design work . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 'd be so grateful if that were still an acceptable fee . |
| 6 | ‘ That was simply a letter delivered at the gate just before dusk . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | So it 's not the six thousand figure , that that 's not really relevant as I see it to the debate about the forecast because that was simply a partial opening the bypass . |
| 9 | A face that was simply the front skin of the self concealed and separate |
| 10 | The kind of job , he thought , that was simply an admission of defeat . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | That was nearly a |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Certainly we had a minority of outright failures , whose grasp of their work was negligible , but that was generally the case . |
| 15 | Gillian looked at me as if that was rather a stupid question . |
| 16 | Then I was expected , that was rather a nuisance . |
| 17 | Sorry , that was rather a long answer . |
| 18 | That was rather a cheekiest thing to do . |
| 19 | I thought that was rather a lot . |
| 20 | oh that was rather a nice thing to do though for Easter |
| 21 | ‘ That was rather the impression that I gathered , sir , ’ the lawyer said with a lift of one ironic eyebrow . |
| 22 | May be I 'm being a little unkind but that was rather the impression I got . |
| 23 | The midwife said to me , ‘ This child has been on this earth before ’ and I thought that was rather an odd thing to say , but the midwife seemed quite adamant . |
| 24 | ‘ We were criticised in '91 for our lack of marketing expertise … that was both a disappointment and a learning experience ’ , reflected Rowlands in Catania . |
| 25 | That was neither an end , nor a beginning . |
| 26 | They had had £10 : 1s. : 0d. advanced to them but divided between the two men for the 2½ months labour that was scarcely a good wage … average perhaps . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | That was effectively the end of Liverpool 's challenge , and Spartak confirmed their greater class with a second three minutes from time . |
| 29 | That was evidently the conclusion reached by the magistrate in the present case . |
| 30 | That was clearly a catastrophic way to run a modern mixed economy . ’ |