Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Liverpool 's main Euro trait down the years was always that the Reds did n't lose many goals in these type of games . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | During this period , the most effective co-operation concerning the Kurds was probably that between their adversaries , in other words , the governments of Iraq and Turkey . |
| 6 | The bottom line argument against heritage languages was always that they were bad for the children . |
| 7 | But I thought you were saying in answer to a question my was putting to you that one of the reasons for shouting armed police was so that everybody knows you 're armed police . |
| 8 | The traditional justification for lower wages for women was always that they were not responsible for the livelihood of a household . |