Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] be that [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What seemed so dreadful was that he waited so long for the Premiership , and held it for so short a time … |
| 2 | What made the result so glorious was that it epitomized the essence of steeplechasing : at its most prestigious moment the sport had returned to its rural roots and shown that the humblest contestants can win the biggest prizes . |
| 3 | But with the coming of modernity proper , that is with industrialisation , what made the philosophies so potent was that they became embodied as a functional rationality . |
| 4 | The most obvious is that he felt it himself : to him his fictions were what the Silmarils were to Fëanor or their ships to the Teleri , ‘ the work of our hearts , whose like we shall not make again' . |
| 5 | More likely is that she wrote down ( accurately ) the beginning , remembered the sound of the end , and linked them together in what seemed to her a possible sequence . |
| 6 | That more likely is that you realised well nigh immediately that it was Mr , that 's why you said to Mr I 'm arresting you for harbouring an escapee . |
| 7 | What made it more extraordinary was that everything had conspired against them , from the Home Unions committee 's refusal to grant them official Lions status right through to the kick-off . |
| 8 | What was more surprising was that he brought a wife with him . |
| 9 | Hardly a rally was over two strokes and what was more disappointing was that it followed the brilliant final at Brighton . |
| 10 | What was even more worrying was that she had never cried and even when he remonstrated with her and told her bluntly that their two children were dead and buried she just smiled and turned away . |
| 11 | What was also disturbing was that I found being the centre of attention quite attractive . |
| 12 | The most important was that it offered far more opportunity professionally . |
| 13 | Those of us who witnessed the touch-and-go progress of an ultimately triumphant War and Peace — recorded by Philips for release early next year — feared for the future of the rest , but as Gergiev puts it ‘ that which makes me incredibly proud is that I announced these things and they happened ’ — and , one might add , that inspiration was to hand for rather more performances than the fiercely self-critical Gergiev might admit . |
| 14 | What was equally obvious was that he had no intention of compouding his error with any further mistakes . |
| 15 | Where he was intellectually confused was that he failed to see any close connection between the economic stance of his Government and its industrial problems . |
| 16 | What made it even worse was that she had to pretend to enjoy it . |
| 17 | His wife was ill , very ill , and what made it even worse was that he felt responsible for her illness . |
| 18 | What made things particularly difficult was that I felt I was n't Black enough for my Black colleagues and that white workers picking up on the division used this to their advantage by divide-and-rule tactics . |
| 19 | But what is unquestionably true is that he spent much of I 188 not on the way to the Holy Land but in the castles and camps of south-western France , and that widespread rumour said that his enemies were bribed and incited into action by his own father , determined to keep Richard back until they could go together . |
| 20 | What is medically certain is that she died of coronary thrombosis : there is no question of any foul play , except of course if the heart attack was brought on by the shock of finding someone in her room stealing the jewel she had come all the way from America to hand over to the Ashmolean Museum , or more specifically to Dr Theodore Kemp on behalf of the Museum . |
| 21 | Of the many explanations for the collapse in the ninth century after such intensive cultivation without metals for 6–16 centuries , the most plausible is that it resulted from sustained failures of maize due to a leafhopper-borne virus , maize mosaic virus , which may have originated in northern South America at roughly the same time as maize was brought to the Caribbean by the Arawak about the time of Christ . |
| 22 | One thing that went seriously wrong is that we did n't hear more of Neil Kinnock speaking as he did amid the wreckage of his political hopes and personal career . |
| 23 | What pleased me very much was that someone said of my first photographs taken abroad that they looked like they had been taken anywhere . |
| 24 | What pleased me very much was that someone said of my first photographs taken abroad that they looked as if they could have been taken anywhere . |
| 25 | One of the perils of dreaming too much was that you got flashbacks afterwards . |