Example sentences of "that [noun prp] [was/were] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here I must admit to a certain prejudice , in that much as I admired Chapman 's engineering brilliance — it was intuitive , radical , lateral-thinking and extremely sharp — I did not share , then or now , the belief that Colin was a constructor in the class of Enzo Ferrari , nor did I feel any faith in him as a man or a leader of men . |
| 2 | But Jim knew as he carried his daughter through the crowd that now circled them , that Berta was an epileptic . |
| 3 | L. MacNeill Weir , in his book The Tragedy of Ramsay MacDonald , was the main critic , suggesting that MacDonald was an opportunist , a liberal rather than a socialist , that he schemed to ditch the Labour government , and betrayed the Labour Party . |
| 4 | Sensing that Bertin was an art-lover , Zbo showed him some paintings and made a sale . |
| 5 | Besides , they had been through enough together for Colonel Windsor to know that Tubby was a man — or , at least , he had been . |
| 6 | Absorbing snippets of information too : did you know that Confucius was a gourmet ? |
| 7 | Anxiety here was generated by the fact that William was a Calvinist , hardly more attractive as head of the Anglican Church than a Catholic . |
| 8 | A note stated that Roger was a partner having a sixth and a " two thirtieth part " of mining works at Coniston since July 1692 . |
| 9 | These stylistic features of the story as published would give the ordinary reader the impression that Hayward was an accomplice in the plot — " the paymaster of blood money " , as his counsel put it . |
| 10 | To understand Nizan it is necessary , finally and perhaps most importantly , to recognise the fact that Nizan was an intellectual in search of moral integrity . |
| 11 | He says that Murray was a friend to everyone . |
| 12 | She had accepted his invitation under false pretences , and that was deception — and she had an instinctive feeling that Ven was a man who would abhor deception — and would take her apart if he ever found out . |
| 13 | The little that she 'd been able to piece together was that Pamela was a barrister , that the house did , as Lucy had suspected , belong to her , and that she and Josie had been together for at least five years and probably longer . |
| 14 | He was somewhat mollified to find that Armstrong was a cab and he could ride in the back and scowl at me , but he knew I thought it was a lousy idea going down to Brixton to track down Lewis Luther . |
| 15 | The point was that Jenkins was a nonconformist , a rebel even ; an ‘ unqualified ’ coach who would disdain the Welsh Rugby Union coaching certificate , which to others is a glittering prize , as a scrap of paper . |
| 16 | It is now generally accepted that Frolik was a plant designed to waste MI5 's resources while important spies remained undetected and to sow seeds of distrust between MI5 and the CIA . |
| 17 | Apparently he was under the impression that she had arranged to see Richard again tonight ; he was also under the delusion that Richard was a Belgian whom she had just happened to pick up . |
| 18 | For a man to say that Galadriel was an angel , for instance , might then seem natural enough.s Would she be a fallen angel ? |
| 19 | It was she who told me that Doogie was a commis chef at one of the better Park Lane hotels ( and I 'd said I had n't realized his politics were important and she 'd just looked at me ) and she was a journalist with one of the North London suburban weeklies . |
| 20 | She was beginning to feel quite mournful when she remembered that Meredith was a Catholic and would n't be allowed in the church . |
| 21 | Loraine Crescent was a full crescent without access to Hammond Drive , but she fails to say that Lakeside was a cul-de-sac , also without access to Hammond Drive . |
| 22 | Mr Howe states that Ms Robinson was correct in saying that Loraine Crescent was once a full crescent without access to Hammond Drive , but had failed to mention that Lakeside was a cul-de-sac also without access to Hammond Drive . |
| 23 | If , until that moment , Cassie had laboured under the misconception that Bella was an ill-educated , ill-bred and mercenary little tart and that Johnny had married beneath him , as she believed the proper expression to be , then the sound of Bella 's voice dispelled any such comforting illusion . |
| 24 | By normalizing its relations with China , South Korea accepted the Chinese position that Taiwan was a province of China rather than a country in its own right . |
| 25 | The thought made her feel slightly better , but she still found herself tentatively letting herself in , relieved in a way that André was a bit under the weather . |
| 26 | I think that Neil was a bit of a sensitive area . |
| 27 | It was during the time the play was being crafted , and for years afterwards , that Ken was a witness to the bizarre happenings that made up this strangest of all relationships , a relationship which ended with Halliwell murdering Orton and then taking his own life . |
| 28 | ‘ I had never believed that Ken was a homosexual . |
| 29 | I remembered that Clements was a scrounger . |
| 30 | The essential purpose was to disguise the fact that Dennis was an alcoholic . |