Example sentences of "that was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was the split … ’ |
| 2 | No , no — freedom with responsibility , that was the elusive formula we pondered all those years ago at the LSE . |
| 3 | Do you feel that was the right way round for you ? |
| 4 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 5 | That was the year when , in the parks and boulevards of the great cities of the West , people first began to talk about the death of images . |
| 6 | Yet my sense that that was the place for a transformation of vision . |
| 7 | That was the plan from the start and it remains the plan . |
| 8 | That was the limit — what did she know about tragic ? |
| 9 | ‘ That was the doctor 's idea , sir . |
| 10 | That was the last time we spoke . |
| 11 | ‘ Not with a big enough wage , that was the problem . |
| 12 | Well , that was the view of a gardener writing in February 1858 to the journal The Cottage Gardener . |
| 13 | That was the one part of her body she liked , and with her glasses they were masked . |
| 14 | That was the feeling . |
| 15 | Numb , that was the feeling . |
| 16 | And that was the end of Dragonfly Moonchild . |
| 17 | The axis that joined Edinburgh to London — that was the lightning-rod of power . |
| 18 | That was the first time I 'd seen a man 's penis so clearly and my mouth and throat went dry . |
| 19 | ‘ I had insisted all along that we could not return until that was the case and that having waited so long , waiting a little longer would not matter . |
| 20 | How to cope with the separate issues of the economic recession , the need for major investment such as the electrification of the East Coast main line and identification of those parts of the network or services which needed direct government subsidy , was the overriding concern of the BR Board at that was the problem . |
| 21 | That was the non-bulk wagonload operation , later marketed as Railfreight Distribution . |
| 22 | Added to that was the desire to eradicate all vehicles with asbestos insulation by 1988 , a target not in fact achieved . |
| 23 | That was the way I felt recently . |
| 24 | That was the measure of affection and esteem in which he was held . |
| 25 | That was the greatest triumph . |
| 26 | That was the start of the two most demanding years of her life . |
| 27 | Who would believe us on anything if that was the basis of our policy ? ’ |
| 28 | For Clough , too , that was the season 's first goal , and a corker . |
| 29 | People thought perhaps you needed to save money — after all , that was the only reason for buying a diesel car , was n't it ? |
| 30 | At least that was the case in Britain , where the gap between petrol and diesel fuel prices has always been small . |