Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adv] [that] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She smiled then to soften any hint that she was annoyed that her mother thought she should be more home-orientated than she was now that she was married . |
| 2 | It was here that they were found , over 30,000 of them , stored in boxes and covered in dust , some of them in a poor condition . |
| 3 | It was here that they were confronted on March 4 by a party sent to effect Aguinaldo 's arrest . |
| 4 | Here he began to crystallise the wisdom of some of his best poetry , writing and songs ; for it was here that he was reborn , where he truly began to find himself ; where , not least , the music of Greece entered his soul , evoking earlier memories and melodies , combining with them to suggest a new style , a new mystique . |
| 5 | It was here that it was discovered that ‘ corn steep liquor ’ , the material left over after extracting starch from maize , was a valuable nutrient for Penicillium notatum . |
| 6 | After her first five years apprenticeship she became involved with transport and it was here that she was destined to make her mark and has continued to do so for 37 years . |
| 7 | It was just that we were all so fond of her . |
| 8 | ‘ It was just that we were strangers and awkward with each other , whereas Suzie was malleable . |
| 9 | He still has n't had it through , cos we were yes , yes , big improvement , it was just that we were arranging visiting and things like that and er whether there 's any need to do certain things , so er , but he 's still on a , he 's come off all his painkillers his morphine 's out completely , that 's fantastic is n't it ? |
| 10 | It was just that they were all in profile and virtually identical . |
| 11 | It was n't Lloyds fault , it was just that they were complying with the original P E P regulations about reporting and , and er so on , so they had to charge more . |
| 12 | In a way she was imposing , and as statuesque as the pictures in front of her ; it was just that she was not , and never could be , her father 's type . |
| 13 | It was just that she was making a statement herself in dressing up . |
| 14 | He had stopped stealing , or , rather , Emmie thought he had : sometimes she wondered if it was just that she was n't keeping a proper watch on him . |
| 15 | It was just that she was not a parent but their grandmother , whose character was fixed and unalterable . |
| 16 | It was just that she was another Egyptian girl . |
| 17 | ‘ It was just that I was a bit surprised at seeing you . |
| 18 | It was just that I was longing to be your hostess . ’ |
| 19 | It was just that you were flying and … ’ |
| 20 | But listening to you make that case it 's very similar to reading the great debate on franchise reform in this House in the last century , when people said we should be included and that people like us should be able to have the vote and put people into Parliament , it 's I mean it was just that you were you were making that plea about pro that the Board should be representative as being like the group who are benefiting . |
| 21 | Her seat on the board was never formally revoked ; it was just that it was clear she was not to use it . |
| 22 | It was just that it was intriguingly difficult to tell if he was issuing blunt ultimatums to a financial contact , or responding to some emotional problem at the other end of the line … |
| 23 | And she said , no it was just that he 's talking of renting his house erm and I know of someone who wants to rent one . |
| 24 | She had certainly not planned on saying that , it was just that there was no reason to hate an old woman just because you hated her insufferable grandson , especially when she reminded you , in some indefinable way , of your own grandmother — but why should she explain any of that to this man ? |
| 25 | It was simply that we were shooting the picture down in Brighton on the front to a large extent and on the rubbish dump , I remember , which we turned into the fields of northern France , and we needed that terrible phrase from the First World War , cannon fodder . |
| 26 | It was then that I was struck by another passage in Mothers and Daughters : ‘ As the middle- aged daughter develops reasonable expectations of her ageing mother , she will be able to develop reasonable self-expectations in relation to her daughter . |
| 27 | It was then that it was bomb damaged , although apparently this was largely restricted to the toilets ! |
| 28 | Although it felt like a miraculous coincidence for us at the time , it was more that we were all ready to grapple with this issue in our lives . |
| 29 | ‘ It kind of was , but it was more that he was forced into that position . |
| 30 | It was more that it was genuinely in those days a club . |