Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adv] that " in BNC.

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1 The critical hypotheses to be tested in our study were rather that there are no differences between groups than that there are differences .
2 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 .
3 But if you have a reasonable cross section of the country and your result was still that Birmingham was looked down upon as a low status accent , then at least you can your results so . .
4 The reason why the Nazis persecuted the Jews was so that people would forget their own problems ; perhaps the reason you do this is so that you can blame someone else for your failings ?
5 The most important finding from this study was simply that drivers were able to comfortably give ratings of subjective risk .
6 His original crime was allegedly that he was plotting to bring 20,000 French soldiers into Ireland and trying to raise a further army by levying a charge on the poverty stricken clergy of Ireland among whom he was doing mighty works in reviving the Catholic faith .
7 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 .
8 In fact , one of the major tensions was precisely that between the residual kinship patterns and the new form of relationships that were being constructed in the course of the nineteenth century .
9 Stradling writes , " Until comparatively recently the prevailing view on political education in England was either that it was already adequately taken care of through History , Geography , Social or General Studies or that it was a wholly unsuitable subject for the school curriculum . "
10 But knowing the DEA , the attitude was probably that the fucking military was being fucking paranoid as usual and to hell with them .
11 This work was led by Williams { 38 , 39 } and Guckenheimer { 14 , 17 } , though the range of parameter values in question was actually that studied by Lorenz in his original paper .
12 I am aware that there was a steady decrease in the casualty figures and this was welcome to the Harris Offensive and also to the Mighty Eighth , but it always appeared to be that the Luftwaffe were just that one step ahead until , of course , the advent of D-Day and the advance of the Allies on the Continent .
13 The public reaction was generally that parents and doctors should decide .
14 As Institute president Ian Plaistowe said very wisely in his letter to the Financial Times , we should work towards recording similar events in similar ways ; my point was simply that we do not want to record different things in similar ways , and that is where judgment will come in : for example , some securitisations are valid , others not .
15 One of the reasons for Dupleix 's failure was simply that he was operating in a region of India where the profits from trade were not large enough to justify or even to support heavy military expenditure .
16 The most serious problem remaining for 5 Corps was thus that posed by the approach of the main body of Croat troops ( reported as being 200,000 in number ) , accompanied by huge numbers of Croat civilians , who were attempting to escape into Austria via Dravograd , towards the small town of Bleiburg just inside the Austrian frontier .
17 Liverpool 's main Euro trait down the years was always that the Reds did n't lose many goals in these type of games .
18 My husband was right that nothing could exist on this planet .
19 The implications of the title were simply that an organisation had extended its activities beyond exporting to consider markets distinct from its own domestic market .
20 What guarantee was there that they had not been stolen ?
21 And if human reason had been impaired by the Fall , what guarantee was there that one could think God 's thoughts after Him ?
22 There was nothing wrong with the noble creed they were taught-it was just that it played no part in the actual operation of the military dictatorship .
23 The conclusion given in both the Johansson studies was simply that the probability of a driver actually detecting a road sign is extremely low , but that some signs are more likely to be detected than others .
24 ‘ He said it was a pity I had n't come to him before , when the evidence was there that he was living with this woman , because now the bungalow 's been sold and she 's disappeared .
25 How great a chance was there that an animal would be stolen ?
26 What chance was there that this man could ever love her or be faithful to one woman ?
27 How many items were there that centred on curriculum content and administration matters and how many focussed on individuals ?
28 Basically that argument was simply that the country could not afford to go on expanding non-productive sectors such as social services .
29 For the drift of the argument was essentially that men did not assume leadership , but that it was granted to them according to criteria which took merit and experience , as well as birth and social standing , into consideration .
30 The defence argument was solely that Caldwell could be distinguished on the grounds that in DPP v K there was a gap between the accused 's act and the injury , an argument which the court rejected .
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