Example sentences of "[det] that [verb] be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that followed was a rash of rights issues which have left shareholders nursing huge losses . |
| 2 | But her voice seemed to have been swept overboard somewhere in mid-voyage , and all that emerged was a croak . |
| 3 | Luce tried to speak , but all that emerged was a strangled croak . |
| 4 | All that happened was a marked decline in the preferential finance made available by parastatal Kenyan banks ( Commonwealth Secretariat , 1985 : p. 26 ) . |
| 5 | All that happened was a series of complaints when the results of the overall programme began to affect spending in a particular field . |
| 6 | All that appeared was a shot of the sky with the occasional bird flying past . |
| 7 | The small Achray Hotel had vanished ; all that remained was a foot of brickwork where its base had been . |
| 8 | All that remained was a deep , jagged depression where the Mercedes had once been , encircled by burning fragments of mangled debris . |
| 9 | As I watched the figure the lights in the windows would fade and the house would dissolve into darkness again , always out of reach ; all that remained was a certainty that the figure was there , waiting . |
| 10 | In one house pulverized by a shell all that remained was a bust of Napoleon , arms folded and facing north as if defying the Germans with its stony glare . |
| 11 | Long ago , the broad tactics for the next and final stage of this war had been decided ; all that remained were a host of small decisions and , of course , the normal government of his kingdom . |
| 12 | Removing those that remain is a fairly drastic step , which you should only embark on if you have good reason to suspect chemical sensitivity . |
| 13 | Not all the pieces have words , but those that do are a potent mixture of mysticism ( Wiracocha was a pre-Inca deity thought to be the creator of all things ) and revolutionary politics ( El Condor vuelve , for example , sees the condor 's flight wrapping ‘ General Sandino ’ , ‘ Che the Hurricane ’ and Allende in a Pan-American revolutionary embrace ) . |