Example sentences of "that [was/were] part " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barbara wondered if that were part of the reason for his marrying Kate . |
| 2 | A reserve that was part distaste blanked her features . |
| 3 | She was only eighteen and still quite unsophisticated but , after all the glossy and sophisticated women he had gone out with , that was part of her appeal . |
| 4 | That was part of the early days . ’ |
| 5 | She had pitied him ; and that was part of the devaluing , the belittling . |
| 6 | But then he also talked of the power of the mind and maybe that was part of the reassurance . |
| 7 | We bought Dowty knowing that we were at a low point in the aircraft build forecast , that was part of the reason for the timing . |
| 8 | That was part of the unfairness of it . |
| 9 | That was part of the trouble , that was how it was that events were set in motion . |
| 10 | That was part of the folklore . |
| 11 | ‘ That was part , perhaps , ’ Hepzibah said . |
| 12 | Boast he occasionally might , but that was part of his childlike pride in the continued expansion of his wholesale fancy goods business ; from a weekly round of nearby villages it had grown over the years into a limited-liability company with an extensive warehouse and a solid share of the city 's and province 's retail market . |
| 13 | Traversing walls like that was part of his standard training . |
| 14 | I 'm afraid I forgot to write it down , except th there was minerals , that was part of its wealth , there 's o obviously some other parts of its wealth as well . |
| 15 | And this — this ‘ gift ’ of the girl — that was part of the play , too . |
| 16 | ‘ That was part of it , but I had another and more important reason for opposing him . ’ |
| 17 | Yeah , I know that was part of his . |
| 18 | That was my , that was part of our job . |
| 19 | That was part of your job as a watchman , you have to all the little paraffin lamps , that 's all they were , sometimes they 'd keep alight and sometimes they would n't , they 'd go out but there was there was never much erm work at night times on the river , might be an old barge . |
| 20 | That was part of their game , of course ; leave him to search for the way to escape , but alone . |
| 21 | That was part of the play , too , to give Bruno a final victory but not an easy or total victory because that would be unrealistic . |
| 22 | ‘ That was part of your appeal . |
| 23 | That was part of my inexperience . |
| 24 | And that was part of my work . |
| 25 | And erm the the that was part part of their work you see , the these blacksmiths . |
| 26 | It is the Serbian minority in Croatia that was part of the spark that set alight the flames in Yugoslavia . |
| 27 | I freely admit that things have changed since , but that was part of the argument . |
| 28 | In fact , that was part of the trouble , more often than not it is the protestations and evasions of a witness which tell most about him . |
| 29 | But erm because I 've been out there doing this and that 's that was part of my if you like to come in to do the recruitment side of it , er I had to experience and I 'm glad I did because there were one or two pre-judgements I had about advertising sales , as most people do , erm that I had to get wiped out of my erm my my system . |
| 30 | That was part of the briefing . |