Example sentences of "[adv] [was/were] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Arran wanted was £5000 ; what he saw clearly enough was that the support of 5000 Englishmen would lose him four times that number of Scots . |
| 2 | Certainly not , and I think that that 's one of the things that causes people to be to switch off when you mention computers and think ‘ oh , I ca n't understand that ’ because their experience at school perhaps was that they could n't understand mathematics anyway . |
| 3 | His statement to the conference and to me personally was that it was a Sunday issue . |
| 4 | But the funniest thing of all was that the flat she was going in , the floor area was less than the one she 'd left . |
| 5 | We all know that a full moon is not normally conducive to good fishing , so was that half moon enough to make the difference ? |
| 6 | The reason why they did so was that in the case of man neoteny was an evolutionary trend largely in the service of ego and superego development . |
| 7 | She and this animal treated each other with mutual contempt , like an old unhappily married couple , and I always thought that the only reason he did n't bite her or she have him put down was that they disliked the rest of the world even more than each other and would have been even more miserable and lonely than they were in their trap of hostility . |
| 8 | The difficulty with writing it down was that it became real to the extent of being in a book , there were two lives , the one in the book and the one which he lived to collect the details for the book one ; he could go further in his head than on the page , the words slowed him down . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | What was obvious , though , straightaway was that Mr Carver did n't talk much and his greeting of Mick was as to one of the family , indicated with a nod and a ‘ Hello , there ! ’ |
| 11 | Just just to show that erm well they just were that those sort of people you know . |
| 12 | The assumption made above was that it would be useful for subjective risk in driving to promote accurate memory and thus aid the driver in avoiding such situations in the future . |
| 13 | His researches go back to the 1950s : ‘ I was always fascinated by history — I spent five years as an architecture student and the reason why I did n't get through was that by the end I was much more interested in the history of architecture than other aspects of the subject , ’ he recalls . |
| 14 | And subsequently after a long period of time , the opinions of our members generally was that we should change the , the procedure . |
| 15 | The position of the UK forces in Saudi Arabia and in the Gulf area generally was that together with the armed forces of Kuwait and other coalition partners they were engaged in hostilities against Iraq under the authority of the UN Security Council ; Major specifically explained in Parliament on Jan. 28 that the UK was not in a state of war with Iraq . |
| 16 | What made it easy was that earlier charters had been produced by so many different monastic scriptoria in so many house styles that spotting the inauthentic was a task for the dedicated scholar — who in any case was more likely to be employed in propagating fraud than in hunting it out . |
| 17 | She had to admit , however , that the main reason that she had phoned the Symses and answered their appeal so promptly was that it took her out of the house , and away from the strain of being with Mark in public while the incident of the night before still divided them . |
| 18 | What was stranger still was that she seemed stressed and worried , and kept raising her wings into the wind and bending forward at it and then letting it lift her off her stand to the top of her cage where she stuck out her talons , hovered for a moment and then flopped inelegantly down again to the bare branch . |
| 19 | What Phoebe had realised quickly was that Lisa liked working . |
| 20 | ‘ And the terrifying thing I realised very quickly was that you have to be yourself . |
| 21 | One of the reasons I managed to improve so quickly was that I practised in flat water with a steady wind . |
| 22 | But the industry consensus yesterday was that the outlook remained gloomy amid worries that a Labour government 's economic policies could further depress sales . |
| 23 | The one hope yesterday was that septuagenarians such as Edward Heath and Sir Trevor Skeet might find the Tories ' small majority wearisome . |
| 24 | Sequent Computer Systems Inc , a key partner in Microsoft Corp 's NT-on-multiprocessors push , is believed to have sent Microsoft changes in the code to enable Microsoft to add 30-way processor support for NT some time ago , and the last minute expectation before launch of NT yesterday was that it would be included on the NT compact disk . |
| 25 | THE good news yesterday was that the public sector borrowing requirement may not be growing as fast as the pessimists feared , and the need for tax increases in the Budget may not be as insistent as some analysts believe . |
| 26 | But what concerned her even more was that the Notice had shown the meeting would include two members of the Secret Intelligence Service . |
| 27 | What confused her even more was that her resentment and her anger were offset by an indefinable sense of excitement at his presence . |
| 28 | Captain Trentham was generally the bearer of such news , and what annoyed Charlie even more was that he always looked so smart , clean , and worse — warm and well fed . |
| 29 | Another point to hit home was that in those cases where girls are prepared to give up everything to play on the Tour , they might as well do the job properly . |
| 30 | ‘ The reason he never had any was that his tastes precluded it , ’ said Rose , spitting out the words . |