Example sentences of "here [was/were] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what was striking about the three-year-old 's behaviour here was that they did this for twenty trials . |
| 2 | The twist here was that the guitarist was also female ( her guitar was blue ) and the singer had an Australian accent . |
| 3 | The main difference here was that each stone of the tumbling columns was mounted with a photograph of a major country house destroyed in the last hundred years . |
| 4 | The chief advantage here was that the door was never locked . |
| 5 | It is clear that what Bukharin had in mind here was that the ‘ town ’ must provide consumer goods and means of production to agriculture on such a scale as to make it worthwhile for the peasants to produce more than for their own immediate needs . |
| 6 | l he general conclusion reached here was that any attempt to get behind the early church 's proclamation of Jesus to what Jesus himself had actually believed about himself could only be built on psychological conjecture and historical guesswork . |
| 7 | The point being made here was that William claimed superiority over all Herbert 's lands ; it was no mere personal bond he was enforcing . |
| 8 | The main criticism levelled here was that users found it difficult to come off while still living in an environment ‘ full of junkies ’ . |
| 9 | The significant point here was that if four hours each week were devoted to the teaching of Science , the School would become eligible for a grant of £150 a year , under a scheme recently introduced by the newly-created Board of Education . |
| 10 | Er the impression I got when I talked to the locals who lived here was that it was n't gon na be that mixed . |
| 11 | ‘ Michael , the reason we all moved here was that Howard was here already ! ’ |
| 12 | A final point of note here was that in cosmetic use there was no substantial resistance to the idea of convenience in use . |
| 13 | The only reason I came in here was that I was on my way into town when your boys called and they said it would be quicker if I came in to see you . |
| 14 | The only reason he was here was that he had seen every other programme on locally . |
| 15 | Weill 's philosophy here was that songs should not blend with , but should deliberately interrupt , narrative in his contemporaneous documentary style operas ( Willett 1978 , p. 167 ) . |
| 16 | I am satisfied on all the evidence that the promise here was that the ground rent should be reduced to £1,250 a year as a temporary expedient while the block of flats was not fully , or substantially fully let , owing to the conditions prevailing . |
| 17 | One original assumption here was that legislators are more responsive to demands for expenditure than to public concern for tax levels . |
| 18 | The thing here was that all the flowers were blue — delphiniums and cornflowers and forget me nots round a sundial in the middle of a smooth green velvet lawn . |