Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [that] [pron] was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , since he is only one of a significant group of bishops who came from court in the early seventh century , if there was any general transfer of secular authority to bishops in this period , and the evidence is far from clear on this , the likelihood is that it was condoned by the king . |
| 2 | The truth is that I was sent to Scotland to find out what happened , is happening and might happen . ’ |
| 3 | The truth is that I was suffering from insomnia : a full stomach is more conducive to sleep than is an empty one . |
| 4 | Aunt Ilsa was in the library ; she had a heavy cold at the time and I am tempted to say we discovered her poring over a map , but the inelegant truth is that she was searching the shelves for a misplaced book when we entered . |
| 5 | It appears he took his own life but the truth is that he was murdered . |
| 6 | ( There was no way we could check this figure ; the point is that it was accepted as a social fact . ) |
| 7 | It is difficult to understand why Clemens Alexandrinus called him a Peripatetic ( Strom. 1.72.4 ) , but perhaps the important point is that he was assigned to a philosophic school at all , because this was quite unusual for a Jew of the second century B.C. Aristobulus quoted Greek writers — authentic or forged — to support the truth of the Bible and the dependence of the Greeks on Jewish wisdom . |
| 8 | If Day-Lewis is the movie 's greatest strength then its most noticeable defect is that it was shot by two different cinematog-raphers , often with the same scene lit very differently as if taking place at contrasting times of day . |
| 9 | As it was n't mentioned in the Newsletter write-up Geoff 's theory is that she was booted out . |
| 10 | What he calls the ‘ fancy explanation ’ for this architectural love is that he was baptised in a Romanesque font in the Dorset village of Stoke Abbot , but the reality is that as a student at Durham he was profoundly influenced by the majestic presence of the cathedral : |
| 11 | I do n't need to spell it out for you but the assumption is that he was going back drunk and got hit . |
| 12 | I mean what the strange thing is that I was reading about |
| 13 | The good thing is that I was introduced to Tracey right from the start . |
| 14 | The reality is that it was beaten long ago . |
| 15 | You say that your information is that he was wounded ? ’ |
| 16 | The answer is that it was borrowed from the gravitational energy of the universe . |
| 17 | The answer is that he was wreaking a horrible revenge for having had his box of leads confiscated that morning , on suspicion that he was attending a job interview . |
| 18 | The more likely explanation is that she was pressurising him to leave your daughter to marry her . |
| 19 | So the point of conclusion is if the myth is different in the Bible then the likely explanation is that it was tampered with , but that the scribes and the people who wrote the Bible altered the and they changed it round why should they change this myth ? |
| 20 | If I find in myself a desire for which no experience in this world can satisfy , the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world . |
| 21 | All one can say about the legend of Mu is that it was invented recently and has no scientific backing whatsoever . |
| 22 | My guess is that it was concealed inside . ’ |
| 23 | The official story is that he was playing it at a party and people wanted to hear it over and over . |
| 24 | The whole story is that I was asked to ride Docklands Express , Cool Ground , Auntie Dot and Bonanza Boy in home gallops for the television cameras and then to compare the quartet . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , one thing I know about Mr Coffin is that he was born in the early nineteen-twenties . |
| 26 | The first we hear about his steam engines is that one was erected near Dudley Castle in the Black Country area of the Midlands in 1712 . |
| 27 | The fact is that nothing was done about the matter , and the goats were released from farm isolation by the ministry with subsequent disastrous results for me and for others . |
| 28 | My bet is that it was started by one cave dweller stalking another through the gravel of Peking or Java , his stone club at the ready . |
| 29 | The significance of this strikingly worded note is that it was written in full knowledge of the methods already being used by " local commanders " to " persuade Jugoslavs that they should return to Jugoslavia " — ie the " deception " whereby they were allowed to believe that they were being taken to Italy . |
| 30 | A more recent view is that it was attached in the 14th century to a 13th century church . |