Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . . |
| 2 | The most important finding from this study was simply that drivers were able to comfortably give ratings of subjective risk . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But knowing the DEA , the attitude was probably that the fucking military was being fucking paranoid as usual and to hell with them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The public reaction was generally that parents and doctors should decide . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | My husband was right that nothing could exist on this planet . |
| 10 | What guarantee was there that they had not been stolen ? |
| 11 | And if human reason had been impaired by the Fall , what guarantee was there that one could think God 's thoughts after Him ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | How great a chance was there that an animal would be stolen ? |
| 15 | What chance was there that this man could ever love her or be faithful to one woman ? |
| 16 | Basically that argument was simply that the country could not afford to go on expanding non-productive sectors such as social services . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | By the weekend , the legal advice was apparently that ministers could tell Parliament to go hang . |
| 20 | She gave this powerful sense of her character 's emotional repression , and the sense was there that she had had a hard life . |
| 21 | In anyone 's book that is failure of some magnitude , but the fact for English cricket was simply that there were very few players of real Test class around at the time ; after all , when Mike Gatting , one of the best of the county captains , got his chance he won only twice in twenty-two Tests . |
| 22 | Explain at once to the speechreader what the mistake was so that he can share the joke , otherwise he may feel uncomfortable and puzzled by the reactions to his remark . |
| 23 | A fourth reason was simply that the lobon-gur mixture was not very pleasant to taste . |
| 24 | Binding was the second most frequent reason for the non-availability of material , and — since the most frequent reason was simply that a requested item was already in use — it was the main reason which could be considered as in some measure attributable to the Library 's own procedures . |
| 25 | The most fundamental reason was evidently that Hitler was proving incapable of bringing about the fervently desired end to the war , either victoriously or even through a creditable compromise peace . |
| 26 | Certainly suspect committee members had attempted to go abroad , but the real reason was probably that the committee had served its purpose by acting as a bait to attract foreign relief organizations ( the ARA drew up an agreement on 20 August ) . |
| 27 | The second reason was precisely that a single Carolingian world still existed , and men of the high nobility moved within it . |
| 28 | So the reason was always that people really needed the money rather than they just wanted to work ? |
| 29 | The assumption was also that the ability to communicate confidently and accurately , with a fuller understanding of the processes of communication , equips graduates better for the demands of social and professional life than traditional university teaching methods in language . |
| 30 | But the assumption was always that his first attempt at direction should be on a modest scale . |