Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [that] [pron] was [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ‘ evidence ’ was never published but he persisted in his belief that his only crime was that he was found out . |
| 2 | The result of this ineptitude was that I was rumbled as a single parent within days , if not hours , and subsequently approached as if I were a fatal poison masquerading as a person . |
| 3 | The first news of his condition was that he was winded , bruised and in shock , but likely to be passed fit to race today . |
| 4 | Further , since he is only one of a significant group of bishops who came from court in the early seventh century , if there was any general transfer of secular authority to bishops in this period , and the evidence is far from clear on this , the likelihood is that it was condoned by the king . |
| 5 | Some writers have held that the essential thing about medieval law was that it was discovered , not made ; in so far as it was valid and sound , it was a reflection of divine law ; it partook of the nature of what in more recent times has been called ‘ fundamental law ’ . |
| 6 | What is curious about Carnot 's work was that it was done using the obsolescent theory that heat was a weightless fluid , driving a steam-engine like water driving a water-wheel . |
| 7 | It was a very difficult period in my career , and the problem with the transfer was that everything was done out in the open . |
| 8 | The disadvantages of the Article were that it was perceived as dealing with ‘ representational ’ issues that were out of place in the Convention , that it undercut the position of non-liability of member States for treaties concluded by organisations , and that it placed excessive emphasis on the exceptional situation of the European Communities . |
| 9 | The truth is that I was sent to Scotland to find out what happened , is happening and might happen . ’ |
| 10 | It appears he took his own life but the truth is that he was murdered . |
| 11 | ( There was no way we could check this figure ; the point is that it was accepted as a social fact . ) |
| 12 | It is difficult to understand why Clemens Alexandrinus called him a Peripatetic ( Strom. 1.72.4 ) , but perhaps the important point is that he was assigned to a philosophic school at all , because this was quite unusual for a Jew of the second century B.C. Aristobulus quoted Greek writers — authentic or forged — to support the truth of the Bible and the dependence of the Greeks on Jewish wisdom . |
| 13 | The upshot was that I was summoned by the university authorities and told that I was to be allowed to continue my studies but only under certain stringent conditions . |
| 14 | My own opinion was that it was written by a Communist infiltrator . |
| 15 | If Day-Lewis is the movie 's greatest strength then its most noticeable defect is that it was shot by two different cinematog-raphers , often with the same scene lit very differently as if taking place at contrasting times of day . |
| 16 | The point arose in Oakwell where the evidence against the defendant on a charge of threatening behaviour was that he was seen fighting with another . |
| 17 | It was coined in 1969 by the American scientist John Wheeler as a graphic description of an idea that goes back at least two hundred years , to a time when there were two theories about light : one , which Newton favored , was that it was composed of particles ; the other was that it was made of waves . |
| 18 | As it was n't mentioned in the Newsletter write-up Geoff 's theory is that she was booted out . |
| 19 | One popular theory was that it was propagated by the miasma which hung about the damp , insanitary places such as overcrowded burial grounds . |
| 20 | The next step in Hocazade 's career was that he was brought to Istanbul from Bursa by Mehmed II to dispute again with Molla Zeyrek , the latter having incurred the sultan 's displeasure by claiming one day in his presence that he — Molla Zeyrek — was superior to the highly revered scholar al-Sayyid al-Sharif al-Jurjani ( Seyyid Serif : d. 816/1413 ) . |
| 21 | What he calls the ‘ fancy explanation ’ for this architectural love is that he was baptised in a Romanesque font in the Dorset village of Stoke Abbot , but the reality is that as a student at Durham he was profoundly influenced by the majestic presence of the cathedral : |
| 22 | One reason why Bonn became the capital was that it was favoured by Konrad Adenauer , der alte Fuchs ( the Old Fox ) , the Federal Republic 's first post-war chancellor who had his political base in the North Rhineland . |
| 23 | The weakness of feudal service as a basis for recruiting an army was that it was hedged round with difficult restrictions . |
| 24 | The good thing is that I was introduced to Tracey right from the start . |
| 25 | The reality is that it was beaten long ago . |
| 26 | You say that your information is that he was wounded ? ’ |
| 27 | The answer is that it was borrowed from the gravitational energy of the universe . |
| 28 | So the point of conclusion is if the myth is different in the Bible then the likely explanation is that it was tampered with , but that the scribes and the people who wrote the Bible altered the and they changed it round why should they change this myth ? |
| 29 | If I find in myself a desire for which no experience in this world can satisfy , the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world . |
| 30 | All one can say about the legend of Mu is that it was invented recently and has no scientific backing whatsoever . |