Example sentences of "[noun] is that [pron] [vb past] in " in BNC.

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1 What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ?
2 He told TODAY soon after the tragedy : ‘ My only crime is that I fell in love with another girl . ’
3 What is known about Jane is that she lived in a cellar in Wisbech , earning her living by reaping in the fields in the summer and spinning wool and flax in the winter .
4 ‘ The important thing is that I got in a couple of block tackles , which was significant .
5 He gave a course of lectures in Rotherham in 1803 , but thereafter the next certainty is that he died in Tamworth and was buried there 23 August 1810 .
6 My own view is that what happened in 1987 was far worse .
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