Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [noun] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The result was that when Bollaert finally made his speech on 10 September it was obvious that , for all the rhetoric and for all the idealization of the French Union , if it was independence that France was offering , it was so heavily circumscribed as to make it obvious that France had , at most , transferred the Jacobin concept of ‘ the nation one and indivisible ’ to a French Union in which she would still be in a commanding position .
2 It was luck that Anne came out on top because she did n't want to go to medical school anyway .
3 So was it too much to believe that it was Kemp that Stratton had seen — about five o'clock , had n't he said ?
4 It may only have been the milestone of hitting thirty , but I could n't help feeling that it was proof that life was passing me by .
5 And , blessedly , it was facts that Morse now seemed to be concentrating on as , forgetting Aldrich for the moment , he browsed once again through the questionnaires .
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