Example sentences of "[noun sg] that it [be] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , the Great War would not have been the war that it was if it were not for the machine . |
| 2 | Indeed , quite early on , I tried to work out in my mind what it was that made his personality ( though he did not like the word ) so compelling ; and I came to the conclusion that it was because he did not let me down in my own estimation of him . |
| 3 | ‘ When I got back and found your note I did n't think for a minute that it was because you thought I was the father of the child . |
| 4 | Dalby was held to have been decided in the way that it was because a direction was needed whether or not there was an intervening act , i.e. the words in Dalby did not mean what they said . |
| 5 | Erm , I understand that erm somebody from the unit has had talked to your group before , but it 's just as well to come and talk to you again because we 've changed the Local Government Unit , not the same erm , unit that it was when we were first introduced , we 've grown basically . |