Example sentences of "[that] it [be] [adv] [noun sg] and " in BNC.

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1 Cockburn reduces two contradictory processes of the local state — that it is simultaneously agent and obstacle for the national state - to those of a one-way agent .
2 It was Grétry who testified from personal experience that it was both distance and the dancers that caused the main problems :
3 It had suddenly borne in upon her that it was almost midnight and that she was in a strange flat in a strange city , with a strange man who was plying her with champagne .
4 ‘ They tried to explain that it was only sand and it was all a stunt , but it was lit up with radioactivity signs and we take our environmental responsibilities very seriously . ’
5 Music , writing and nautch dancing all flourished ; the old military aristocracy complained that it was now sitar and sarangi players , not generals and cavalrymen , who were rewarded with honours and estates .
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