Example sentences of "[coord] that it [was/were] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot 's writings on poetry do not contain a systematic theory , but on two matters of principle he adopted a stance strongly opposed to that of Richards : he refused to accept either that poetry consisted in the use of emotive language , or that it was simply a vehicle for communicating the author 's experience to the reader . |
| 2 | He had given up years ago the delusion that all men were homosexual at heart , and that it was just a question of finding the key to unlock their repressed desires . |
| 3 | and thought it was a reservations line oh was sorry it was n't a reservations line and that it was just an enquiry line . |
| 4 | Rejecting the new constitutional proposals , a group of 114 ethnic Albanian delegates to the Kosovo Assembly issued a statement on July 2 , in which they declared that Kosovo was now independent of Serbia , and that it was instead a full constituent republic within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( SFRY ) . |
| 5 | But she was aware that she had been preoccupied a lot of the time , all too aware of the mountain of work before her , and that it was rather a long time since she and her daughter had had any special outings together . |
| 6 | Does the Minister agree that discrimination against people with disabilities clearly exists in employment and that it was therefore a great pity that the very modest Bill presented by my right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester , Wythenshawe ( Mr. Morris ) was talked out by supporters of the Government ? |
| 7 | The next day Professor Pearn , who was working in intelligence , came in to warn me that the Japs were breaking through from Taung-gyi and that it was only a matter of hours before they would reach Maymyo . |
| 8 | He saw that the humans were numerous and becoming more so , and that it was only a matter of time before they would eclipse the elder races . |
| 9 | Others ( who were more justly accused of commercial megalomania or electrical messianism by critics ) felt that the ‘ all-electric ’ future was near at hand , and that it was only a matter of time before all heating — continuous or intermittent — would be by electricity . |
| 10 | Yet so sure of themselves were they , that for 17.5 hours after the blast the power-station management insisted that the reactor remained intact and that it was only an emergency watertank that had exploded . |
| 11 | Fortunately , I noticed that he had been given a place at a different school from his older brother and that it was actually a matter of filling in the appeal form requesting a place at another school . |
| 12 | So we 're going to Scarborough in this big yank 's car and the fellow said if we do n't , if want it I 'll give you a fiver , for petrol like and that it was quite a bit of money then . |
| 13 | He also knew ‘ allowed ’ was not exactly the word but that it was more a question of not bothering . |