Example sentences of "was [adv] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my village there had been historic upheaval over such questions as whether it was right that hymns should be sung in the House of God . |
| 2 | The nineteenth century headteacher who knew he was right that God loved everyone , and would therefore thrash any boy who did not acknowledge that , had in fact paid almost no attention whatever to the content of his belief . |
| 3 | The reason why the Nazis persecuted the Jews was so that people would forget their own problems ; perhaps the reason you do this is so that you can blame someone else for your failings ? |
| 4 | It was only that Doreen I wanted out of my sight . ’ |
| 5 | By the weekend , the legal advice was apparently that ministers could tell Parliament to go hang . |
| 6 | It was just that things were getting worse , not better as time passed . |
| 7 | It was not that her therapist was possessed of unusual wisdom or insight and that Scarlet had learned from her : it was just that Scarlet had discerned her way of thought and her approach to the problems which beset the insecure and so found her entirely predictable . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was just that Gildas was closest , he understood most , and although their friendship was impregnable , they could still hurt each other . |
| 9 | It was just that people were people . |
| 10 | It was just that people saying things like that reminded me of one of my all-time favourite cartoons where Dr Watson is saying to Sherlock Holmes : ‘ But if you saw the conditions these Moriartys had to live in , you would n't be so quick to judge . ’ |
| 11 | It was just that Tim and the new show did n't fit together very well . |
| 12 | and er just to , just to sit , it was just that Penny and Kev and Pam and Grant have got different ways in their mind to where we are , we do n't go anywhere in a hurry , I do n't go somewhere and think oh I 've got to be back at ten o'clock |
| 13 | The public reaction was generally that parents and doctors should decide . |
| 14 | So the reason was always that people really needed the money rather than they just wanted to work ? |
| 15 | But if you have a reasonable cross section of the country and your result was still that Birmingham was looked down upon as a low status accent , then at least you can your results so . . |
| 16 | The general consensus , however , was probably that teams and committees had to be seen to be operating tough but fair standards . |
| 17 | It was later that Hinchley became a teacher of chemical engineering , starting in 1909 with an evening course of twenty-five lectures and practical work at Battersea Polytechnic . |
| 18 | The defence argument was solely that Caldwell could be distinguished on the grounds that in DPP v K there was a gap between the accused 's act and the injury , an argument which the court rejected . |
| 19 | It was now that Popham Down wrote his footnote . |
| 20 | It was now that Nicandra fell into a sudden easy accord with Andrew . |
| 21 | I think it was now that Lili decided I stood in need of care . |
| 22 | It was now that gender became a significant factor . |
| 23 | Studying the map back at the motor cycle , he saw that it had once carried what was now that branch of the Makaa River which flowed down the valley below the track up to the President 's cabin . |
| 24 | It was now that Sean realised the bad decision that he had made . |
| 25 | Berlin 's line was now that Hess had flown to England to suggest peace , an idea , they said , that the British government was terrified might catch on . |
| 26 | The reason that an extremely lenient criterion was adopted was simply that subjects generally gave very little detail about the situations they actually recalled correctly . |
| 27 | The consensus was simply that Hollywood had lost track of what people really wanted but there were also a number of other notions . |
| 28 | The most important finding from this study was simply that drivers were able to comfortably give ratings of subjective risk . |
| 29 | It was here that Minton , whilst sunbathing out at sea on a lilo narrowly escaped the shark which , tempted by a lump of goat meat on a steel hook , was hauled in the next day . |
| 30 | It was here that Sigmar fought his famous battle against the Orcs . |