Example sentences of "[be] that [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Summer would have given way to autumn imperceptibly , had it not been that autumn was the hunting season , and hunting the very purpose of the region . |
| 2 | The relevance is that Bagehot was the first political commentator . |
| 3 | The irony of it is that Hawkeye was the progenitor of every Western hero , down to John Wayne in The Searchers , who by that time is a racist . |
| 4 | Although not everyone will agree that the condition of , for instance , educational buildings can be adequately judged without an educational view , the main point which the Commission was making was that information was the key to the assessment of quality in education . |
| 5 | Now , in the conditions of 1920 in Soviet Russia , to write about all those things that industry could supply to agriculture was the ‘ music of the future ’ and the reality was that coercion was the main means of provisioning the towns . |