Example sentences of "[vb past] [was/were] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , it was not long before control was achieved , and the method used was that which had already and long ago done for the peoples of the old world . |
| 2 | Later , however , Thomas Cromwell was sympathetic to the Reformers ; indeed the policy which he pursued was that which Tyndale had advocated in The Obedience of a Christian Man — ‘ One King , one law in the realm : no class of men exempt from the temporal sword ’ . |
| 3 | This is despite the fact that according to the law report the police officers did not know to which specific pits the pickets were travelling and that some of the evidence of violence on which the police officers relied was that which they had gathered from press and television reports . |
| 4 | But unfortunately what that review meant was that what the review brought about was a near privatization of the Health Service through the government 's N H S White Paper and subsequently the N H S and Community Care Act . |
| 5 | What Weismann realized was that nothing that happens to your body can be translated back into your genes as it were . |