Example sentences of "[verb] was that [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Edouard knew : what he could not understand was that in the years since the end of the war Jean-Paul had made no attempt to restore the house . |
| 2 | What Yves meant was that in every act , in every gesture in the game , there is a degree of aggression . |
| 3 | What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase . |
| 4 | Neither did we know anything of the controversy at high levels over the relative merits of area versus precision bombing , but what we did notice was that during the winter of 1943/44 , morale amongst the aircrews was not exactly at its highest level . |
| 5 | The main difference between the races in the data so far discussed was that in the arrest rates of Blacks and Whites living in the same areas . |
| 6 | My note indicates that what Mr Curtis said was that on a pro rata to their existing |
| 7 | Erm , I think what I said was that as a result of these actions , the payroll would be thirty million less in ninety three than ninety two . |
| 8 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that one of the representations that he must have received was that from the Liberal Democrats advocating their policy of imposing an extra 50p a gallon on petrol ? |
| 9 | One of the most systematic surveys to be undertaken was that by the Policy Studies Institute ( Brown , 1982 ) . |
| 10 | What she never admitted was that in the beginning , she had been terrified of this new mode of travel and the first few miles had been passed with her eyes tightly closed and her lips moving in prayer . |