Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] was the [noun] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The engine stopped and for a moment there was the silence that can only exist in a forest . |
| 2 | Yes , I can now reveal that in a previous life I was the iceberg that sunk the Titanic . |
| 3 | First , in the context of share-pushing there was the reality that the share-pusher was often beyond the reach of English law . |
| 4 | In keeping with the emphasis on parliamentarianism there was the idea that party power should reside within the parliamentary leadership alone . |
| 5 | And he managed to live until he was seventy-one , much longer than the expectancy of any hellraiser , although in the end it was the drinking that took him in 1988 . |
| 6 | Last summer , at the Communists ' congress , an attempt by the so-called Democratic Platform to break the party in two failed miserably ( in the end it was the Platform that collapsed ) . |
| 7 | At the time there was the recognition that " society was on the brink of a great struggle between property and population " . |
| 8 | At one time it was the law that rape is committed only where the woman submits through force , fear , or fraud . |