Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [was/were] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most important finding from this study was simply that drivers were able to comfortably give ratings of subjective risk . |
| 2 | The public reaction was generally that parents and doctors should decide . |
| 3 | In anyone 's book that is failure of some magnitude , but the fact for English cricket was simply that there were very few players of real Test class around at the time ; after all , when Mike Gatting , one of the best of the county captains , got his chance he won only twice in twenty-two Tests . |
| 4 | The second reason was precisely that a single Carolingian world still existed , and men of the high nobility moved within it . |
| 5 | Certainly suspect committee members had attempted to go abroad , but the real reason was probably that the committee had served its purpose by acting as a bait to attract foreign relief organizations ( the ARA drew up an agreement on 20 August ) . |
| 6 | In fact , one of the major tensions was precisely that between the residual kinship patterns and the new form of relationships that were being constructed in the course of the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | The most serious problem remaining for 5 Corps was thus that posed by the approach of the main body of Croat troops ( reported as being 200,000 in number ) , accompanied by huge numbers of Croat civilians , who were attempting to escape into Austria via Dravograd , towards the small town of Bleiburg just inside the Austrian frontier . |
| 8 | By the weekend , the legal advice was apparently that ministers could tell Parliament to go hang . |
| 9 | How many items were there that centred on curriculum content and administration matters and how many focussed on individuals ? |
| 10 | Binding was the second most frequent reason for the non-availability of material , and — since the most frequent reason was simply that a requested item was already in use — it was the main reason which could be considered as in some measure attributable to the Library 's own procedures . |
| 11 | Basically that argument was simply that the country could not afford to go on expanding non-productive sectors such as social services . |
| 12 | Firstly , nobody , but nobody would want to levy charges until it was a last resort , but if the alternative to levying those charges were perhaps that we had to cut the staffing levels in those adult training centres , then you get a different answer to the question , and I had a meeting about four weeks ago with the heads of some of our centres who 've been asking parents and carers that question . |
| 13 | The most fundamental reason was evidently that Hitler was proving incapable of bringing about the fervently desired end to the war , either victoriously or even through a creditable compromise peace . |
| 14 | A fourth reason was simply that the lobon-gur mixture was not very pleasant to taste . |
| 15 | This salesman-like language was exactly that : Chalmers was attempting to sell advertising time . |
| 16 | But I thought you were saying in answer to a question my was putting to you that one of the reasons for shouting armed police was so that everybody knows you 're armed police . |
| 17 | His original crime was allegedly that he was plotting to bring 20,000 French soldiers into Ireland and trying to raise a further army by levying a charge on the poverty stricken clergy of Ireland among whom he was doing mighty works in reviving the Catholic faith . |