Example sentences of "was [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until the past two years Drexel was right that the total return from investing in a diversified portfolio of junk bonds overcompensated for the default rate . |
| 2 | Because of this she never had any time for her own parents : my mother could n't think it was right that they 'd parted with two of their children . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Coleridge rationalized the departure in his poem ‘ Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement ’ , asking whether it was right that he should live in beauty and solitude while his ‘ unnumber 'd brethren toil 'd and bled ’ in the greater world . |
| 5 | I told Kidsons that I did n't think it was right that I should seek re-election , which was coming up on 30 April , and left it at that . ’ |
| 6 | If he needed to be questioned again it was right that it should be at home and with his parents present . |
| 7 | I thought that it was right that I should talk to you , try and build a better picture of Michael . ’ |
| 8 | He was , as I have said , correct in ignoring article 10 and the submissions based upon it if he was right that the law is certain . |
| 9 | It was right that she should make it suffer for what it had done . |
| 10 | And while to a certain extent the chairman was right that the aesthetic of art was being eroded , nonetheless a whole infrastructure of artists and those who dealt with them was being maintained and subsidized , thus providing creative freedom . |
| 11 | So you won , Ragu , and in retrospect I think it was right that you did . |
| 12 | However , we believe that it was right that the statement should be made in the House , from which have come the decisions that , in our opinion , have done so much to encourage the IRA through the years . |
| 13 | My husband was right that nothing could exist on this planet . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was right that the poor Jewish scholar should marry the daughter of the richest local merchant , because it was unthinkable that a community which respected learning should reward its luminaries with nothing more tangible than praise . |
| 16 | Maybe Jeff was right that the man was insufferable and she had simply been bowled over by his formidable good looks and by that quality of heady excitement he exuded . |
| 17 | But Mr Michael Fallon , the Conservative candidate , said it was right that a quarter of the receipts should go on housing while threequarters went towards repayment of debt . |
| 18 | As an astute contemporary observed , " the strange thing is that de Gaulle did not , at any time , suggest that he could save [ the French people ] from [ war ] ; the suggestion was rather that if war was to come … it would be better for France if he were in charge " . |
| 19 | It was rarely that he felt such a direct clash between his twin roles as actor and detective . |
| 20 | That , in fact , er there are three provinces who are already now contributing more than anyone else that , they feel that the churches should go forward to try and raise the minister 's to what was proposedly that the assembly last year , they should be paid thirteen thousand two hundred but in order to do that see another six hundred thousand pound raised and it is likely that this will be put as a challenge to the churches at assembly . |
| 21 | Evening no it was somewhat that that horrid word like that 's so bloody funny . |
| 22 | For the purposes of the Conservative Party conference , it was enough that the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer denied the existence of an alternative economic strategy . |
| 23 | It was enough that a government official in the OEOB , with its mock-French , slightly creepy grandeur , right beside the White House , had told him not to tell anybody . |
| 24 | It was enough that both men understood the facts of the situation , and each other . |
| 25 | For them it was enough that 1 , a Westerner from a God-forgotten , immoral country , believed and made some attempt to practise . |
| 26 | It was enough that the girl had made the shoes which she was wearing for this special occasion , she certainly had no place in this night of Emily 's triumph . |
| 27 | Goulding J. made it clear that he was not expressing , on an ex parte application , any decided view of the jurisdictional issue , though he accepted that where orders in personam were concerned it was enough that the court should have the party who must obey its order within its power . |
| 28 | It was enough that he should have taken the trouble to visit her and offer his apologies . |
| 29 | I 've let you play your games , you and Joseph , and I 've said it was nothing to me , it was enough that I was a painter . |
| 30 | It was enough that he should receive food and shelter most nights ; many of his family had not been so lucky . |