Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [was/were] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I bought this house and insisted she move in with me she took the path of least resistance and agreed , although even then if I 'd had the wits to see them all the signs were there that although she relished my role as provider she cared very little for me as a person . ’ |
| 2 | And while to a certain extent the chairman was right that the aesthetic of art was being eroded , nonetheless a whole infrastructure of artists and those who dealt with them was being maintained and subsidized , thus providing creative freedom . |
| 3 | The reason why the Nazis persecuted the Jews was so that people would forget their own problems ; perhaps the reason you do this is so that you can blame someone else for your failings ? |
| 4 | But knowing the DEA , the attitude was probably that the fucking military was being fucking paranoid as usual and to hell with them . |
| 5 | Liverpool 's main Euro trait down the years was always that the Reds did n't lose many goals in these type of games . |
| 6 | I am aware that there was a steady decrease in the casualty figures and this was welcome to the Harris Offensive and also to the Mighty Eighth , but it always appeared to be that the Luftwaffe were just that one step ahead until , of course , the advent of D-Day and the advance of the Allies on the Continent . |
| 7 | The implications of the title were simply that an organisation had extended its activities beyond exporting to consider markets distinct from its own domestic market . |
| 8 | ‘ He said it was a pity I had n't come to him before , when the evidence was there that he was living with this woman , because now the bungalow 's been sold and she 's disappeared . |
| 9 | For the drift of the argument was essentially that men did not assume leadership , but that it was granted to them according to criteria which took merit and experience , as well as birth and social standing , into consideration . |
| 10 | During this period , the most effective co-operation concerning the Kurds was probably that between their adversaries , in other words , the governments of Iraq and Turkey . |
| 11 | She gave this powerful sense of her character 's emotional repression , and the sense was there that she had had a hard life . |
| 12 | Clearly if , if the fines were more that would help , but I do think now because of the consciousness of the general public and because of the involvement of the media in , in the environment , er that firms are not keen and the third parties , whoever they may be , are not keen to be fined in court for pollution , because public opinion is such that it 's very much disapproved of . |
| 13 | Explain at once to the speechreader what the mistake was so that he can share the joke , otherwise he may feel uncomfortable and puzzled by the reactions to his remark . |
| 14 | The answer was always that a copy would be made and forwarded . |
| 15 | So the reason was always that people really needed the money rather than they just wanted to work ? |
| 16 | The assumption was also that the ability to communicate confidently and accurately , with a fuller understanding of the processes of communication , equips graduates better for the demands of social and professional life than traditional university teaching methods in language . |
| 17 | But the assumption was always that his first attempt at direction should be on a modest scale . |
| 18 | They had been a unit , had shared jokes , exchanged small gifts , written to each other when unable to meet for a week or two ; the assumption was always that this would continue , and expand . |
| 19 | As an astute contemporary observed , " the strange thing is that de Gaulle did not , at any time , suggest that he could save [ the French people ] from [ war ] ; the suggestion was rather that if war was to come … it would be better for France if he were in charge " . |
| 20 | The calculation behind the memorial was naturally that most of the women would leave to get married within a few years . |
| 21 | In part , of course , the problem was simply that the Soviet archives were inaccessible to western scholars , while during the Stalin era the documents and memoirs published in the Soviet Union were sparse and manifestly tendentious . |
| 22 | The consensus was simply that Hollywood had lost track of what people really wanted but there were also a number of other notions . |
| 23 | How great a chance was there that an animal would be stolen ? |