Example sentences of "[adv] [be] that it was " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | His statement to the conference and to me personally was that it was a Sunday issue . |
| 2 | The two are entirely compatible if it is remembered that one of the popular theories of the nature of the state itself has always been that it was founded on a contract between the individual members of a society . |
| 3 | It is not at all unlikely that at the conquest , Mehmed II appointed someone mufti in the newly conquered city ; and since the sources seem not to mention the appointment of anyone else to the post , it may possibly be that it was made an for Hizir Bey . |
| 4 | It may even be that it was done to make possible the appointment of this particular scholar , a native of Bosnasarayi who had taught to the level . |
| 5 | It could well be that it was the very fact of the fading of life enjoyment which is experienced with the responsibilities of adulthood and parenthood — and this could have affected the very primitive man just as much as it does modern man — which precipitated the very first of man 's attempts to take control of his future and the progress of evolution , by becoming ‘ civilised ’ . |
| 6 | If indeed this was how he happened upon verre anglais , it could well be that it was in England , not Spain , that Dom Pérignon rediscovered the cork . |
| 7 | Asik Celebi says no more about Molla Fenari 's fate , but it may well be that it was alter this experience that Molla Fenari went to Karaman . |
| 8 | My first impression of building 30 years ago was that it was a product business . |
| 9 | Er the impression I got when I talked to the locals who lived here was that it was n't gon na be that mixed . |
| 10 | What she did n't find out until too late was that it was one thing to jump a gap but quite another to stay put on the landing stone when the surface was wet and slippery . |
| 11 | The police say that there is no suggestion that it was the result of terrorism ; the belief rather is that it was caused by building works being carried out as part of the routine modernisation of the royal residences . |
| 12 | One of the things that surprised me when I first read the New Testament seriously was that it was always talking about a Dark Power in the universe — a mighty evil spirit who was held to be the Power behind death and disease , and sin . |