Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] that [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many years I have experience severe rain leakage through the canvas tilt on my Series III.1 once made the mistake of coating another vehicle 's tilt with polyurethane paint but the result was that it hung in tatters within a year as it became brittle . |
| 2 | Villains they might be , but they had a certain code of practice and the rule was that you looked after your own kind . |
| 3 | The response of the committee was that they adhered to their previous decision to allow them to do so only once a quarter . |
| 4 | Mr Clarke said : ‘ The key requirement was that we look after our people as well as we possibly could in these extreme circumstances . |
| 5 | We had a succession of God-awful nannies we could n't afford — Clemence 's books had n't started to sell at that point — but the upshot was that I left for work late , came home early . |
| 6 | A complication was that it had to be reduced in a complicated , controlled manner or the electricity grid throughout Ulster would be burned out and would require a long time to replace after the strike would be over . |
| 7 | The important point was that there seemed to be no way of determinately reversing this higher-to-lower translation unless the target high-level language was already known . |
| 8 | Her first reaction on seeing the tousle-haired bejeaned actor was that he looked like a slob , but ‘ I thought he was very sexy . ’ |
| 9 | The wartime government had promised the troops they would return to ‘ homes fit for heroes to live in ’ , but the sick joke was that you had to be a hero to survive in them . |
| 10 | Indeed , one of the key features of the Nottinghamshire initiative was that it occurred in somewhat of a policy vacuum . |
| 11 | The conditions were that he resides at Handley Green , Laindon , reports daily to Laindon police station and does not enter Clacton . |
| 12 | perhaps the single most important effect of the Cuban revolution was that it proved beyond all doubt that Marxism was not an exclusively European doctrine and that it could be applied successfully in Latin America . |
| 13 | Thinking about this now , I know that what I was saying in wanting my periods back was that I wanted to be a woman , that I wanted and liked my female body , that my years of confusion and self-dislike were beginning to be over . |
| 14 | His argument was that they expect to be certain , and therefore interpret any doubt as evidence of unbelief : |
| 15 | The chief reason I 'd always been against abortion was that it seemed like tearing up a bill instead of paying it . |
| 16 | Well , the main theory was that she fell into the river on one of her walks . |
| 17 | The sadness was that it came from the killing of Harry . |
| 18 | The trouble was that they voted against the large numbers of unemployed and voted for Fascist and Nazi Governments . |
| 19 | The trouble was that he got under her skin . |
| 20 | What left his stamp on the stewardship of our movement was that he held to these passions so tenaciously and yet drew on inner reserves that illumined them with an unshakeable commitment to excellence and that rarest of all qualities personal integrity . |
| 21 | His explanation of adaptation in a sense was that it occurred as a result , as he said , of the natural selection of variations which were in their origin non-adapted in some sense , random . |
| 22 | According to author Dr Eve Roman , ‘ it made no difference whether a woman worked on a VDU as part of her general day , whether she just used it occasionally or whether her only contact with a VDU was that it happened to be in the same room ’ . |
| 23 | Michael Stewart 's first comment on the interior was that it felt like being in an aircraft cockpit . |
| 24 | And the only record that we have in scripture of any evidence of folk having received the Holy Spirit was that they spoke with other tongues . |
| 25 | If , for example , a man was known as ‘ Father of James ’ the probability was that he lived with his wife 's people and dutifully avoided his mother-in-law in the appointed manner . |
| 26 | The only difference from the literary effusions of today 's superstars were that he wrote without benefit of a ‘ ghost ’ . |
| 27 | The real reason was that he felt at ease ; he was no longer a figure of fun or an eyesore , he had a place — just as he did at first with Sien . |
| 28 | A large number of coins was found in ‘ the mortary destruction layer ’ of the vestibule and in ‘ robbing pits ’ in the cella , and the assumption was that they came from hoards buried in the temple floors or structure and were scattered when demolition took place . |
| 29 | I think the other thing was that I wanted to be known as a musician rather than some other phenomenon other than a musician and I think that also had an effect on me too . |
| 30 | The only curious thing was that I found in my room a handbill from a Frenchman trying to solicit backers to export parchment to France and import wine into England . |