Example sentences of "[was/were] that [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two drawbacks were that it initially took a long time to get into , and it was hot — the first problem was solved , the second not . |
| 2 | His main principle with regard to the past was that nothing once given to God or the saints could be restored to the kingdom of this world without injustice . |
| 3 | What was really wrong with Eldorado was that nobody really cared much about what happened to the characters . |
| 4 | The line to take on capital punishment was that what urgently mattered was not the form of punishment , but making sure that people can live in safety and without fear . |
| 5 | The old theory was that they somehow made the web stronger mechanically , a belief reflected in the name stabilimentum . |
| 6 | If , however , that order was the subject of an appeal to the Divisional Court , then the practice was that they thereafter drafted reasons , usually in quite considerable detail . |
| 7 | They were n't inherently toxic or dangerous , but they were misused , and instead of calling for an ambulance people would have another squirt of the inhaler down their throat and the result was that they unfortunately died . |
| 8 | The only difference was that they now spent some of their free time together , thus giving her even more opportunities to fall more and more deeply in love with him . |
| 9 | I remember asking on the shop floor of a division , the board of which had been reduced from fifteen to four , what the major difference was This was not because the fifteen previous board members had felt to be down the line , and was told , to my surprise , that the biggest difference was that they now knew what was going on . |
| 10 | A less exciting but equally innovative characteristic of princely officials was that they now existed in sufficient numbers to be used to check up on one another . |
| 11 | At the time it was found that a major drawback in dual-purpose cattle was that they often failed to breed true : the offspring tended towards either the beef or the dairy type of the breed 's dual-purpose spectrum , partly because of breeders ' preferences but partly , it was believed , because the dual-purpose breeds were effectively hybrids : if they had begun to show too great an emphasis on dairy characteristics , extreme beef sires were introduced to draw them back to their dual-purpose role , and likewise extreme dairy sires were used when they became too beefy . |
| 12 | However , the single most important factor militating against employers ' cooperation was that they never regarded the ‘ problems ’ highlighted by reformers — indiscipline , excessive occupational mobility , absence of vocational guidance , lack of systematic industrial training , and inadequate preparation for family responsibilities and exercise of the franchise — as problems for which they felt responsible ; they had little interest in the search for solutions . |
| 13 | I mean , I think one , the first thing to be said is that one can assure members covering all the other C A B's was that they actually got their bids in full . |
| 14 | Our initial reaction was that we just did n't believe it . |
| 15 | Pronto is erm an area of the store where we sell our occasional furniture and erm small priced coffee tables , hi-fi units the occasional furniture that may go erm whereas up until a couple of years ago we use to display this product around the showroom floor part of the new concept stores was that we actually set the same section in the showroom which is very much like a a shelving system whereby the stock actually sits on the shelves , the customer walks in and it 's an easy easy purchase straight off the trolley erm very much like the supermarket operation so it 's the lower priced good value occasional type furniture the cash and carry the kind of things that you do n't need sales assistants for the kind of bookcase that you would put in your children 's bedroom that kind of thing . |
| 16 | What actually happened was that she somehow became separated from the others , decided to walk to work and fell in a ditch on her way up the hill . |
| 17 | All she knew was that she presumably represented a new challenge . |
| 18 | Jackie was asked if she would take a Thoroughbred mare who had been abandoned in a field and give her a home as a brood mare — but part of the deal was that she also took the pony who had been left with her . |
| 19 | What probably happened was that she suddenly decided the time was right for her to do some publicity and she had something to talk about , her book , Elizabeth Takes off . |
| 20 | The difference between her and the other girls was that she actively wanted the job . |
| 21 | The irony was that she actively disliked him . |
| 22 | When he turned his first thought was that she too had been designed to impress . |
| 23 | What I did n't realise was that she then felt she had a right to run my life . ’ |
| 24 | What was so impressive about Silk Slippers 's victory was that she twice had to overcome difficulties in running and William Hill 's offer of 33-1 about the daughter of Nureyev for the Oaks is particularly tempting . |
| 25 | ‘ It sounds lousy , but the great advantage to Celeste — and the reason why our relationship survived for as long as it did — was that she never had much of an impact on either my feelings or my thoughts . |
| 26 | What she did know was that she never wanted to go away again . |
| 27 | A real advantage of his girl , McLeish thought grimly , was that she never lied if asked directly . |
| 28 | ‘ The thing about Elise , ’ Rob resumed succinctly , ‘ was that she never did anything by halves . |
| 29 | Her reply was that she never cried and moreover had never talked about it since it had happened all those years ago . |
| 30 | One of the results of this was that he later sought to influence his son with the truths of Scripture . |