Example sentences of "was [that] [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she admits there was room for rationalization in other areas ; ‘ at first clothes were never costed properly ; in fact we may have been underpricing ’ , she explained , ‘ but for Laura the most important thing was that everyone was working happily together ’ . |
| 2 | I could not understand how it was that they were discussing so placidly Jean-Claude 's current compositional ideas for the ‘ Chansons de Mani ’ . |
| 3 | What was interesting about the projects was that they were asked at the outset to establish their local objectives , and set criteria for success for themselves . |
| 4 | The rumour was that they were to give up the siege and have their contracts revoked before Christmas . |
| 5 | The truth was that they were lost , there was no smoke in sight whichever way she looked , nothing but the undulating feathery greenness of the forest and the sun rising above the trees in the east , but she wanted to conceal her uncertainty from Allen and even from herself . |
| 6 | The snow continued to fall as the Quattro clawed its way eastward towards whatever it was that they were seeking , whatever terrible things were waiting at journey 's end . |
| 7 | Their appeal was that they were conceived in Keynesian terms as helping to reduce the extent to which measures to alleviate unemployment , in a largely fully employed economy , created inflation . |
| 8 | But what the people who had made the banner were aware of , was that they were exploited , the wealth did n't go to them . |
| 9 | One of the answers which emerged was that they were eating diets high in natural fibre — while we , in the West , were stripping this cell-wall material from our day-to-day diet by refining our cereal foods and sugar . |
| 10 | What they had begun to realize was that they were getting a rough deal and that no one else would take any notice . |
| 11 | The sequel , in which the young bloods of Derby and Oaks night received their rebuff , was that they were distracted from their other responsibilities by a four-day jury hearing which found them guilty of riotous proceedings , but not of riotous intent . |
| 12 | The reason for the preserving and passing on of the traditions in this way was that they were used primarily by the early Church in its teaching of the community . |
| 13 | So the conjunction of these two words effectively prevents the raising of the question as to what it was that they were saying . |
| 14 | They had no desire to progress beyond their barricades : ‘ Their whole rationale was that they were fighting a defensive battle for the protection of their community against arbitrary attack ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 15 | But in the meantime she was unwilling — no — afraid to know what secret thing it was that they were carrying . |
| 16 | Their punishment was that they were to walk bare foot behind the procession on the following Sunday , but instead of one taper they had to carry four tapers ( value 2d ) and there they should offer two at the High Altar , and two at the Altar of St. John . |
| 17 | Tina Brown , editor of Vanity Fair , says , ‘ What no one really explained to women , as they went out on their feminist forays , was that they were giving up something . |
| 18 | Perhaps the furthest idea from their hearts was that they were going to be attacked . ’ |
| 19 | It was a very difficult period in my career , and the problem with the transfer was that everything was done out in the open . |
| 20 | One of the consequences of the questionnaire which we sent to you a year ago was that we are making particular links with alumni who are teachers . |
| 21 | Well our main brief was that we was to try and minimize and control the vandalism , or any property belonging to the county council . |
| 22 | I think that 's what Priest , I mean I do n't know , Priest probably has a whole history of how he got is Esquire style , but Vincent went over there and had something to do with it , and I really think that taking the old style stuff and giving it a new spin helped , and the difference between what we 're doing and what the California crowd was doing — and this was also the time of punk rock — was that we were using traditional typefaces and they were |
| 23 | The reason was that we were touching three million unemployed at that particular point in time , and it was felt that the best way of making an impact was to highlight this in the way in which it was done . |
| 24 | The main thing was that we were picking up a lot of hawking know-how , even if we did look ridiculous . |
| 25 | But the undeniable fact was that we were trawling in previously loyal BBC viewers who simply preferred the way we presented the news . |
| 26 | And the good news was that we were told of a live album for release early next year that should capture the music more honestly than either of his two studio outings have managed to do so far . |
| 27 | One thing that I had grasped about the whole business was that we were going to live in a country area where there would be lots of wildlife , and I had heard of King Arthur , of course . |
| 28 | What he did not tell me — and I only learnt during the course of the journey — was that we were adding about a thousand miles to our route . |
| 29 | And we were walking up and down on the beach at Aldeburgh and the most interesting part of our conversation was that we were saying we both started out as not conservatives , I 've never voted conservative in my life , but we started out as very loyal people . |
| 30 | The problem was that we were firefighting not just for ourselves but for so many of our clients , and firefighting takes up a lot of time and emotionally is a strain . |