Example sentences of "[be] [that] [pron] was [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly Helen has looked for ‘ explanations ’ to help her deal with such a painful experience , and the one she seems to have come up with is that she was picked on for the way she looks . |
| 2 | As it was n't mentioned in the Newsletter write-up Geoff 's theory is that she was booted out . |
| 3 | The reality is that it was beaten long ago . |
| 4 | All one can say about the legend of Mu is that it was invented recently and has no scientific backing whatsoever . |
| 5 | My guess is that it was concealed inside . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ All we know is that he was knocked out while someone jumped on him . ’ |
| 7 | The story I 've got is that he was forced out because Ron Barron was threatening to prosecute him for fraud . ’ |
| 8 | This ‘ evidence ’ was never published but he persisted in his belief that his only crime was that he was found out . |
| 9 | One of the criticisms of the list last year was that it was weighted too heavily towards a younger generation , a generation that overall had not really accomplished very much . |
| 10 | The interesting fact was that it was recorded back in 1990 as part of a series of people at work and was delayed because of the Gulf War . |
| 11 | The weakness of feudal service as a basis for recruiting an army was that it was hedged round with difficult restrictions . |
| 12 | All I knew was that it was buried somewhere in the middle of that sea of bricks ’ ( Orwell , 1939 ; 1962 edn , p. 117 ) . |