Example sentences of "that [pron] [noun sg] was the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought that my five-timer was the last time I would be up here . ’ |
| 2 | Which means that my husband was the innocent victim of some hideous double-dealing within the Miletti family ! |
| 3 | From a very young age I learned that my duty was the single most important factor in my life and that everything I did must be dedicated to it . |
| 4 | It is not quite true to say that the price of Attlee 's policy was partition , but it is true to say that its price was the early and firm acceptance of the inevitability of partition . |
| 5 | Bush stressed the importance of the family unit , and stated the view that its dissolution was the single most important factor in the growth of social problems . |
| 6 | But he knew , deep down , that her attraction was the very fact that she did not . |
| 7 | I never thought that her uncle was the American ambassador ! |
| 8 | She sounded tired but , though her breathing was laboured and painful it seemed to Creggan now that her voice was the only friendly thing left in his world . |
| 9 | But then both you and RIPPOE said that her mother was the same and always arrived late and so on for everything , so perhaps it is genetic ! |
| 10 | The late Mrs Clerk-Douglas of Holmill relates that her great-grandfather was the last inhabitant , with the exception of an old woman , a servant of the family . |
| 11 | What we were looking for in Committee , and what the children 's legal aid centre was looking for , was a declaration that the Government 's signature to the United Nation convention on the rights of the child would be enshrined in the spirit of law in this country and that there would be independent panels that could look after the welfare of the children to ensure that their welfare was the primary consideration . |
| 12 | He realized that their loyalty was the firmest basis of his own personal power , that he needed them as they needed him . |
| 13 | The best of the autograph collectors would not have accepted for one minute that their pursuit was the poor relation of manuscript collecting proper . |
| 14 | There were also forms of Judaism which the Jews themselves refused to acknowledge as such — the schismatic religion of the Samaritans , for instance , who insisted that their Judaism was the only true form . |
| 15 | And they all insisted that their recipe was the definitive version . |
| 16 | He explored her shamelessly , and his squeezing and probings froze something inside her , so that their effect was the exact opposite of what he intended . |
| 17 | Sentenced to be hung by the peer 's privilege of a silken rope , for his transportation to Tyburn he dressed in his wedding suit , on the grounds that his marriage was the only occasion in his life to have caused him as much distress as his execution . |
| 18 | The world number nine agreed that his success was the ideal Wimbledon tonic , noting : ‘ What could be better than winning the tournament ? |
| 19 | IN 1826 , Richard Newcomb , the proprietor of the Stamford Mercury , announced that his newspaper was the earliest provincial paper ever' published in Britain . |
| 20 | wilkinson was quoted saying that his impression was the opposite ( that gazza was in fact for sale ) — i guess it 's a matter of lazio officials heating things a little up … |
| 21 | Sometimes the word is for us and at other times instead of us ; but whatever the word , the New Testament writers were in no doubt that Jesus was Saviour of the world , and that his death was the crucial victory of God . |
| 22 | Enthusiastically he told me that he 'd always wanted to visit Morocco , live there even , and that our hashish was the best of all . |
| 23 | ‘ Certainly we thought it was very strange that our jet was the only plane at Kuwait airport that night and we were the only passengers . |