Example sentences of "be that [pers pn] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If indeed this was how he happened upon verre anglais , it could well be that it was in England , not Spain , that Dom Pérignon rediscovered the cork . |
| 2 | If Ebert had been paying for Axel 's debauchery , the chances were that he was behind the death of the girl . |
| 3 | My one solace is that I was at your side . |
| 4 | But I did use and re-invent the world of the Barracks I grew up in , yet the point is that I was in my 20s when I wrote that book and it was viewed through the persona of a dying woman . |
| 5 | ‘ Before you continue , Sir John , ’ Fitzormonde spoke up , ‘ and you start speculating on where I was , all I can say is that I was in my own chamber but no one saw me there . ’ |
| 6 | All I can say is that it was for the best of reasons . ’ |
| 7 | In any case , my point is that it was during the course of this interview , when I raised the question of the difficulty of recruiting suitable staff in these times , that Mr Farraday , after a moment 's reflection , made his request of me ; that I do my best to draw up a staff plan — ‘ some sort of servants ' rota ’ as he put it — by which this house might be run on the present staff of four — that is to say , Mrs Clements , the two young girls , and myself . |
| 8 | What is obscured by this process is that it was through clothing , in both art and life , that Kahlo attempted to redress the wrongs of history . |
| 9 | Chief Superintendent Paul Green of Holborn Police said at the scene last night : ‘ The only thing that can be said about the target is that it was in one of London 's main streets at a very busy time . |
| 10 | But the former Neath and Wales rugby union star , later dismissed for throwing a punch at Gary Tees , insisted last night : ‘ All I can remember is that it was in a tackle . |
| 11 | Thus the Cubans identified a new aggression in Eisenhower 's attitude , and my hypothesis is that it was in response to these events that Castro decided to stake the survival of his revolution on enlisting the total support of the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | What is clear is that it was by looking at these eastern arts , whose strict conventions embodied far more of nature than the near-abstract Geometric , that Greek artists were able to break from that and establish a comparable style of their own . |
| 13 | The G.W. condemned stock from all its depots , but as no name is quoted the assumption is that it was from Swindon . |
| 14 | The official history is that he was in the Communist resistance . |
| 15 | ‘ … poor , almost illiterate … her pride was that she was of the Clanranald . |
| 16 | professional advice about Elizabeth 's unhappiness was that she was in a state of ‘ mourning ’ and that time would improve matters . |
| 17 | His second was that she was from the estate agent 's . |
| 18 | The only meaning to that part was that he was on top of — i.e. , surpassing — her in public . |
| 19 | Erm , once she walked into W H Smith 's and saw her father , the only difference was that he was on the front page of a magazine so she got quite a shock because she did n't expect to see him . |
| 20 | ‘ The last I heard was that he was to be given a good education at the public school which Sir Philip 's son was attending . |
| 21 | A clause in a lease was silent about the status of the rent reviewer : all it said was that he was to be a surveyor . |
| 22 | But all Gouzenko could say about the other Elli was that he was in ‘ department five of Military intelligence ’ and had been told this by a colleague called Lubimov , or possibly Liubimov , who had worked with him in the GRU code room in Moscow . |
| 23 | Darling 's points were credible in the circumstances ; the only plausible explanation of Shill 's actions after the crime was that he was in a drunken stupor . |
| 24 | ‘ All he said was that he was in trouble and that he needed some money to get out of the country . |
| 25 | Despite the rumour that he could fly , all this really meant for Henry was that he was in the saddle so much that he suffered from sore legs . |
| 26 | Davide was walking now down the street which intersected with the woman 's shop ; she still gave sheets of pink blotting paper for change , and a photograph of her son was pinned up on the shelf behind her till ; the news was that he was in the army , but Davide was ashamed to inquire what that report concealed . |
| 27 | The only reason I came in here was that I was on my way into town when your boys called and they said it would be quicker if I came in to see you . |
| 28 | The format of the interview was that I was in a single chair placed to the side of a panel of six sitting in two rows . |
| 29 | And that was my problem with it was that I was in much in terms of being able to go into the classroom an and talk to the kids and have a really good relationship with the teachers and things . |
| 30 | At home the attitude of my parents-in-law was that I was from outside Pakistan , so I must be very independent — although I never showed my independence . |