Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [that] [pron] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've let you play your games , you and Joseph , and I 've said it was nothing to me , it was enough that I was a painter . |
| 2 | It was less that I was too proud , more that I was too embarrassed . |
| 3 | In a way she was imposing , and as statuesque as the pictures in front of her ; it was just that she was not , and never could be , her father 's type . |
| 4 | It was just that she was making a statement herself in dressing up . |
| 5 | He had stopped stealing , or , rather , Emmie thought he had : sometimes she wondered if it was just that she was n't keeping a proper watch on him . |
| 6 | It was just that she was not a parent but their grandmother , whose character was fixed and unalterable . |
| 7 | It was just that she was another Egyptian girl . |
| 8 | Her seat on the board was never formally revoked ; it was just that it was clear she was not to use it . |
| 9 | It was just that it was intriguingly difficult to tell if he was issuing blunt ultimatums to a financial contact , or responding to some emotional problem at the other end of the line … |
| 10 | ‘ It was just that I was a bit surprised at seeing you . |
| 11 | It was just that I was longing to be your hostess . ’ |
| 12 | She had certainly not planned on saying that , it was just that there was no reason to hate an old woman just because you hated her insufferable grandson , especially when she reminded you , in some indefinable way , of your own grandmother — but why should she explain any of that to this man ? |
| 13 | It was more that it was genuinely in those days a club . |
| 14 | ‘ It kind of was , but it was more that he was forced into that position . |
| 15 | She smiled then to soften any hint that she was annoyed that her mother thought she should be more home-orientated than she was now that she was married . |
| 16 | Erm first of all if I may just er point out that the example I put with my paper that I have submitted today , and I thank you for the er indulgence in allowing me to produce it so late , was simply that there was one particular appeal of decision where an inspector remarked particularly on the lack of a local or a development plan policy relating to generally relating to the countryside . |
| 17 | One of the reasons for Dupleix 's failure was simply that he was operating in a region of India where the profits from trade were not large enough to justify or even to support heavy military expenditure . |
| 18 | It was here that it was discovered that ‘ corn steep liquor ’ , the material left over after extracting starch from maize , was a valuable nutrient for Penicillium notatum . |
| 19 | Here he began to crystallise the wisdom of some of his best poetry , writing and songs ; for it was here that he was reborn , where he truly began to find himself ; where , not least , the music of Greece entered his soul , evoking earlier memories and melodies , combining with them to suggest a new style , a new mystique . |
| 20 | After her first five years apprenticeship she became involved with transport and it was here that she was destined to make her mark and has continued to do so for 37 years . |
| 21 | It was then that it was bomb damaged , although apparently this was largely restricted to the toilets ! |
| 22 | It was then that I was struck by another passage in Mothers and Daughters : ‘ As the middle- aged daughter develops reasonable expectations of her ageing mother , she will be able to develop reasonable self-expectations in relation to her daughter . |
| 23 | It was there that he was hurt so badly , rupturing knee ligaments in Spurs ' FA Cup final win over Nottingham Forest in May last year . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | Stradling writes , " Until comparatively recently the prevailing view on political education in England was either that it was already adequately taken care of through History , Geography , Social or General Studies or that it was a wholly unsuitable subject for the school curriculum . " |
| 26 | His original crime was allegedly that he was plotting to bring 20,000 French soldiers into Ireland and trying to raise a further army by levying a charge on the poverty stricken clergy of Ireland among whom he was doing mighty works in reviving the Catholic faith . |
| 27 | It was seldom that there was an aircraft missing after a raid , so gone were the days of losing seven familiar faces two or three times a week . |