Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [was/were] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that was that covered you delegate meeting . |
| 2 | The only reason it hurt so much was that she was so desperately in love with him . |
| 3 | I thought I had some information here on prices I ca n't seem to find it no no , ca n't find it , never , never mind I 've got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in trade , er it 's quoting , it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alright , however that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but it 's rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices , at the same time , so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percent , t , by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports , so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the , over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that we 're looking at , erm , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay . |
| 4 | And the very little was that Fernando showed no signs of missing Maria Luisa or in fact loving her very much . |
| 5 | What pleased me very much was that someone said of my first photographs taken abroad that they looked like they had been taken anywhere . |
| 6 | What pleased me very much was that someone said of my first photographs taken abroad that they looked as if they could have been taken anywhere . |
| 7 | One of the perils of dreaming too much was that you got flashbacks afterwards . |