Example sentences of "[noun pl] be that [pers pn] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he seemed to think because you 'd had your stroke almost a year ago that I should be over it ; his exact words were that I was looking for sympathy . |
| 2 | The spirit of papal statements throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was that it was the duty of the state to oppose freedom of conscience in matters of religion and freedom of worship and to celebrate openly the worship of God ‘ in that way which he has shown to be his will ’ , namely Roman catholicism ( Leo XIII 1903 : 111–12 ) . |
| 3 | But her value in his eyes was that she was his son 's future bride , through whom he would control Scotland ; he did not envisage her doing so herself as an individual monarch , and the secret agreements she made just before her marriage show how far she agreed with him . |
| 4 | My view was obscured by a pillar and I have n't seen replays yet but the wisdom of the surrounding scousers was that it was a foul . |
| 5 | Its corresponding defects were that it was almost insignificant in Europe , retained out-of-date weapons adequate only for colonial use , and paid little attention to training its senior officers for large-scale operations . |
| 6 | My impression of Rangoon in those first days was that it was only just beginning to come to life again , with everyone rather hopeless about the difficulties involved . |
| 7 | One of his most recent historical discoveries was that he was Victor Edmund on his birth certificate , and not Victor Edward as on the cover of his book ! |
| 8 | One of the reasons for his having such innovative ideas was that he was almost untrained , some would say untrainable , and laughed ( extremely annoyingly at the time ) at his elders and betters and their obsessions with sketching and learning the orders . |
| 9 | ‘ He once said that one of my weaknesses was that I was n't vindictive enough , ’ said the urbane and distinctly ungrudging Foster , hugging a radiator . |
| 10 | Most of the Labour front bench , including Neil Kinnock , were in their places and the predictions were that I was in for a stormy time . |
| 11 | Hodge 's merits were that he was honest , courageous , forthright , without arrogance or pretension . |
| 12 | One major presupposition of these early surveys was that it was preferable to study the whole population of a society in order to ensure the reliability and accuracy of the data collected . |
| 13 | One of Stirling 's problems was that he was not content to let others do the raiding from time to time , though he had proved his own courage and nobody would have thought the worse of him had he decided to concentrate on sorting out the many administrative problems that beset L Detachment . |
| 14 | Rather , one of his difficulties was that he was not fed . |
| 15 | Suggestions were that it was to rendezvous with another English force crossing into the Middle March ; or to meet up with Dunbar on the East March and convince him to join Balliol actively . |
| 16 | They would have felt more cautious if they 'd known one of his qualifications was that he was the most deadly marksman in Western Europe with a rifle . |
| 17 | When I spoke to some of these women alone much later I asked them why Asian women often reacted like this ; their answers were that it was good for a man 's Izzat . |
| 18 | The view of Paisley 's critics was that he was implicated but was clever enough to avoid any direct contact . |
| 19 | ‘ I have n't had the pathologist 's report but the indications are that he was strangled after being stunned by a blow to the head . ’ |
| 20 | Although it is not clear whether the Falange leader was notified at the same time , the indications are that he was aware of Franco 's decision , for he called an extraordinary session of the party 's National Council , in order to elect a permanent party leader . |
| 21 | One of the several results was that it was very beneficial to fifteen actors like himself and eight directors who were ‘ hot ’ , and five good writers . |
| 22 | It is n't even known where on Krakatoa the eruption was centred , but the chances are that it was Perboewetan , since the lava flows in the crater looked extremely fresh when they were examined in the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | The chances are that it was a bar , somewhere not too far away . |
| 24 | Professor Cunliffe 's conclusions were that it was the rising water-table and neglect of the drainage system which caused serious and periodic flooding , so leading to its abandonment . |
| 25 | If Ebert had been paying for Axel 's debauchery , the chances were that he was behind the death of the girl . |
| 26 | Her first thoughts were that it was a great shame to turn such a wonderful building into a restaurant and hotel . |
| 27 | For Marx , what was most important in the gens is that it was a group based totally on communal principles , where individuality and selfishness did not exist and where private property had not begun to appear . |
| 28 | Once dealers had time to digest more of the Chancellor 's speech , however , the consensus around the trading screens was that it was a broadly neutral budget , and a late rally reduced the fall to 3 points to leave the index at 2,919.30 at the close . |
| 29 | What singled this exploit out from many other similar ones was that he was blind . |
| 30 | Among his talents was that he was the most deadly marksman in Western Europe . |