Example sentences of "[prep] they [was/were] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the point about them was that they were comparable : different , but not necessarily inferior . |
| 2 | Yeah , what I like about , what I liked about them was that they were dead flat like , you know if you , imagine it a sweet the weight for a sweet were from say ten ounces to twenty kilos |
| 3 | What 's a good answer to that because I found a lot of people , we had that actually on our and one of them was that she . |
| 4 | One of them was that he opened his morning newspaper with an enthusiasm he had not felt for years . |
| 5 | He could n't manage it and he said that he felt that he had to stop being an MP er for several reasons , one of them was that he thought most MPs like he agreed he was at certain times , were out of touch . |
| 6 | The general idea behind them was that they would provide a setting for vigorous entrepreneurs , capable of generating an industrial renaissance . |
| 7 | The only thing wrong with them was that they flew the Northumbrian flag , and not his . |
| 8 | All that we had to say to them was that we intended to tax them more severely . |
| 9 | The most important common feature among them was that they did not have absolute rights over the land which they farmed , but that they were in some way dependent on a lord , who had a right to some part of their labour or their profits from the land . |