Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] was [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I was conscious of was that everything had miscarried , and in my isolation , I was powerless to do anything . |
| 2 | What he was sure of was that she 'd disappeared , and that was inconvenient to him . |
| 3 | One thing we were both sure of was that we would return in the near future with no carp tackle , but to fish purely for the cats , that is if we can get booked of course . |
| 4 | What Lupus could be sure of was that invitations would be sent : the attendance-lists of assemblies are evidence of invitations received and obeyed . |
| 5 | Adam Burns was a hard man to get to know , but one thing she was instinctively sure of was that he 'd never back away from something simply because it was dangerous . |
| 6 | All she was concerned about was that people should know the truth and that justice should be served . |
| 7 | One thing to be thankful for was that no more could get in . |
| 8 | The only thing he was thankful for was that it was the eleventh day , the rest day . |
| 9 | What we as a family were unanimous about was that he adopted no pose of being the distinguished writer , and even gave the impression that he much preferred not to be treated as such . |
| 10 | But one thing Rachel was certain of was that the revival of those memories had only intensified her dislike of her sister 's ex-fiancé , and when she arrived for work the following Monday morning and he was the first person she saw she found her resolve to have as little to do with him as possible had only been strengthened . |
| 11 | One thing I was n't keen on was that the noise suppressor stayed on all the time . |
| 12 | For , trying to analyse why she should want to see him again so badly , she realised that the only thing she could be positive of was that her wanting to see him again had nothing whatsoever to do with that infernal interview ! |