Example sentences of "that was the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that was the route to Jean-Claude 's success , tant pis . |
| 2 | That was the lure of Persia — the fantastic attractions it was held for Westerner ever since the seventeenth century , when traders , ambassadors and princes began to bring back exotic spices , silks and tales . |
| 3 | That was the logic of his moralism , as Canning had pointed out ; he met the charge of dealing in moral abstractions by recognising that slavery had damaged its victims and ‘ brutalized their minds ’ . |
| 4 | That was the Blade 's seventh straight league win . |
| 5 | Out there my brother and I were allowed an hour 's TV after supper — that was the ration . |
| 6 | That was the thrush ( ‘ he sings each song twice over ’ ) and she could also recognise the thoughtful song of the robin , a loner like herself , the virtuoso blackbird ( why had so few poems been written in praise of him ? ) and the starling , with its one sweet note on a flute . |
| 7 | That was the Murray Kidd influence or , to be more correct , the New Zealand coach 's adoption of Australian methods . |
| 8 | That was the art of a good stack builder again . |
| 9 | Worse than that was the knowledge that his mother had found it , presumably in the loft . |
| 10 | There was just a tiny blot on her happiness , and that was the knowledge that one day this man would want to settle down , and when he did she felt sure he would choose the companion of his last four years , the pretty Victoria . |
| 11 | But this is the crew and the picture that flew to Colesfield on the tenth of October of forty three and we had nothing out of the ordinary to report about that mission and that was the Gdynia Mission the day before , it certainly stands out on our minds because of the length of it and then of course the next one on the fourteenth of October to Schweinfurt which changed our lives . |
| 12 | There , under the protective umbrella of the Honecker regime , Kaas had excelled at the intimidation and torture that was the mainstay of the Stasi method . |
| 13 | From locality to Christendom : that was the range of vision of leading Scotsmen , kings , churchmen and nobles — transmitted , we may assume , to all those who sat in St Machar 's , their attention on the clergy at the altar distracted by what soared above them . |
| 14 | That was the word they used as a condition : So long as you stay balanced , darling . ’ |
| 15 | That was the word the Friar had used . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes ’ — she nodded to herself — ‘ that was the word , neurotic , which accounted for her nerves and her funny temper too . ’ |
| 17 | Justified — that was the word . |
| 18 | That was the word for it . |
| 19 | Easygoing — that was the word Mrs Birkin had used , and that was precisely how she herself would describe the feel of this house . |
| 20 | Mature , that was the word . |
| 21 | That was the word that Merrill balked at . |
| 22 | On the credit side ( if that was the word for it ) , they had discharged the last of the luckless Beador 's debts . |
| 23 | Below that was the word : Invoice . |
| 24 | But that was the word Morse repeated to the first question Lewis put to him about Lucy 's progress at 8.30 a.m. on the Tuesday . |
| 25 | Judith had been exquisite — that was the word . |
| 26 | That was the word of warning that made Serafin insist on seeing them . |
| 27 | That was the wave that earned him respect in Hawaii . |
| 28 | She knew aquamarine and every sliding shade of blue — that was the sea . |
| 29 | Yes , that was the style of the place . |
| 30 | That was the style of it , they could n't see , could n't make up their own mind . |