Example sentences of "was that [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jimmy said he really enjoyed playing , but his slight worry about it was that at £13.99 it might prove expensive for the unemployed . |
| 2 | The unusual thing about this was that at Binbrook there was an engineering type called Matthew , a corporal , who also played this instrument , and it did n't take long for the two to discover each other . |
| 3 | The measure of his performance was that at lunch he held a nine-stroke lead over the other morning starters . |
| 4 | But the most famous and prestigious pilgrimage of all was that to Jerusalem itself which could be conceived at a literal level as a journey to the centre of the earth . |
| 5 | Whether it was when he 'd scored 10 or at some other delicate fulcrum in his innings that the Smallholder decided that he 'd sufficiently built his innings and could start unleashing his shots I know not , but the incontrovertible fact was that by tea he had 34 to his name , including five boundaries . |
| 6 | My first shock was that in England there was a whole legion of one-breasted women . |
| 7 | The problem was that in reality it was not so much the Danes who had to decide — they had already made up their minds — as the remainder of the EEC partners who had to face the consequences of the Danish decision . |