Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] that you had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wartime government had promised the troops they would return to ‘ homes fit for heroes to live in ’ , but the sick joke was that you had to be a hero to survive in them . |
| 2 | And erm the provivo proviso was that you had to pay it back though . |
| 3 | The reason was that you had little or no awareness of what a bad situation you were in . |
| 4 | O=only the the only thing was that you had n't got enough room to display everything that you could stock , is n't it . |
| 5 | The trouble with this sawing-halfway-through lark was that you had no control over where and when the thing was likely to break . |