Example sentences of "[verb] was [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason that an extremely lenient criterion was adopted was simply that subjects generally gave very little detail about the situations they actually recalled correctly . |
| 2 | Now what happened was originally that I lost compression on pistons three and four and it worked out there was a very thin channel from piston three to four on the head gasket and erm basically it ruined part of the engine and the whole report said that basically I want a new engine . |
| 3 | He said that one of their reasons for lying was probably that they did not want to be publicly associated with the Carpenter Club . |
| 4 | The familiar Twelfth Night everyone knew and loved was just that along with a fine performance by the English Shakespeare Company . |
| 5 | The other guideline which was issued was namely that of capital , where the a accepted the general guidelines which appeared in the county papers and as far as this Committee was concerned , would mean the general acceptance of all those items which appear in that the first year of that capital programme , subject to the proviso that the revenue contemplated and the benefits of the capital programme will be considered by Policy Panel in its forthcoming meeting . |