Example sentences of "[coord] that it [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the street again , suddenly I felt I was in the middle of a farce — ‘ POLICE SEARCH FOR THE BIG BANANA IS ON — and the discovery that actually I did have my cheque numbers in my moneybelt and that it was the photocopies that had been stolen made me almost light-headed . |
| 2 | And that it was the success of the sweet shop that had enabled her great-grandfather to buy this end of the business . |
| 3 | The serial number of this bass , 72997058 , tells us that it was made in Kalamazoo ( that 's the 0 ; guitars made in Nashville at this time carried a 5 ) and that it was the 58th made in the batch that was stamped the 299th day of the year . |
| 4 | It was therefore assumed in the culture that there were ‘ universals ’ and that it was the universal , rather than particular instances of that universal , which could be said most truly to exist . |
| 5 | Aristotle was of the opinion that there would always be rich and poor within society , that their interests were naturally opposed , and that it was the business of government to persuade them to coexist , and to meet their legitimate demands . |
| 6 | ‘ In the 19th century , a series of cases forced upon the Commons and courts a comprehensive review of the issues which divided them , from which it became clear that some of the earlier claims to jurisdiction made in the name of privilege by the House of Commons were untenable in a court of law : that the law of Parliament was part of the general law , that its principles were not beyond the judicial knowledge of the judges , and that it was the duty of the common law to define its limits could no longer be disputed . |
| 7 | This meant that the subject was Making Notes ; that it was the third draft ( for other drafts were lying about ) ; and that it was the tenth manuscript page of that draft . |
| 8 | The end of the nineteenth century was the climax of the Age of Science ; what remains for us is to glimpse briefly the aftermath of that confident period in which it seemed that all the interesting questions must have answers , and that it was the business of natural philosophy to find them out . |
| 9 | She knew with total certainty that her imagination had n't been playing tricks , and that it was the second time in only a few minutes that she 'd heard those precise words . |
| 10 | Addressing the opening session , acting head of state Lt.-Col. Amadou Toumani Touré , who was elected chair of the conference , said that national reconciliation and tolerance were imperative and that it was the conference 's task to build unity and security . |
| 11 | Making it clear that there could be no question of a ceasefire , Foreign Minister Moumin Bahdon Farah said on Jan. 5 that the FRUD was a foreign invading force , and that it was the government 's duty to continue to defend the unity and sovereignty of the country . |
| 12 | A possible explanation for this apparently delayed effect of the Black Death is that the first onset , despite its virulence , did not harm the economy as a whole as much as might have been expected , and that it was the continuing effect of later outbreaks which did the greater damage . |
| 13 | and really got the momentum going and that it was the middle peasants that he needed to get the support so that they can move forward and have a revolution . |
| 14 | ‘ Everyone seemed to think Benjamin was a virgin , but I never thought of him as that , but that it was the first time he was making love to a woman who was old enough to be his mother , and who was his mother 's friend . ’ |
| 15 | On present evidence it appears that Classical Greek craftsmen were the first to employ enamel , but that it was the Byzantine Greeks who carried the craft to a new level of accomplishment in the service of the imperial court and the rituals of eastern Christianity . |