Example sentences of "[be] that [pers pn] was [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The implication of the evidence as a whole could be that it was only in the reign of Ecgfrith that Northumbrian overlordship embraced the Strathclyde Britons and the Scots . |
| 2 | Most of the Labour front bench , including Neil Kinnock , were in their places and the predictions were that I was in for a stormy time . |
| 3 | ‘ What I like about Boadicea , ’ she says , ‘ is that she was n't in conflict with men ; she was fighting for her people , men and women , against an outside aggressor . |
| 4 | Mr Williams said : ‘ The thread that runs through what he had to say is that he was desperately in love with and fond of the victim and wanted to get back at her . ’ |
| 5 | All she knew was that she was back at the closed door with a tray , wondering what Harold and Felicity might be doing on the other side . |
| 6 | The great thing about Angie was that she was always for him . |
| 7 | perhaps the clinching argument for Philip , however , was that he was already in possession : he had been appointed as Regent at Charles IV 's death and the royal administration was full of Valois clients . |
| 8 | You see , one of the reasons I mentioned his name last night was that he was n't in the room when I came back — the boardroom , you know , where the party was being held . |
| 9 | You know , I think the thing was that he was out of date , and by the time he wrote the second book he knew it . |
| 10 | All he could feel was that he was out of his depth . |
| 11 | The latest development , according to his secretary , was that he was out of the country . |
| 12 | What we did n't realise at the time was that one of the main reasons that Malcolm was so keen on John was that he was so like Richard Hell — who was one of Malcolm s mates in New York . |
| 13 | One thing I did learn from loving Paul was that I was n't in love with David . |
| 14 | One of the results of this was that I was often to be found across the road at the Edwards ' place . |
| 15 | Part of the problem was that I was only in my twenties when I did it , and therefore still quite young in their eyes . |
| 16 | Ian Craig , the head of science and technology , said : ‘ It is educationally valuable to take boys to France or to the science museum , but the unique thing about this was that it was both at the same time , and that was more than twice as valuable . ’ |
| 17 | The reason was that it was not at that time ascertained that those materials were definitely to be used . |
| 18 | The suggestion made was that it was not about economic development , but about buying off the nationalist community . |
| 19 | What he really meant was that it was not in his interest or that of the intelligence services involved . |
| 20 | Those were my spoken replies to my mother , but my unspoken one was that it was up to me , and not to her , to decide when and to what extent I was either cold or hungry . |
| 21 | Moreover the whole point of the form of the public corporation favoured by moderate opinion in all parties ( and represented in the Labour Party by the Morrisonian conception ) was that it was up to the management ( and not the politicians or civil servants ) to develop the details of policy and organisation within only very broad guidelines . |
| 22 | Its only real fault was that it was ahead of its time . |
| 23 | The point Jesus was making was that it was all around them and they had n't noticed ! |
| 24 | The redeeming feature was that it was all in aid of charity and two children 's hospitals outside Moscow benefited . |