Example sentences of "was [det] [noun sg] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnson volunteered some information about the size of the excise duty his friend Thrale the brewer in Streatham had paid the previous year and , says Boswell , ‘ after this there was little conversation that deserves to be remembered . ’ |
| 2 | Where was that man that wanted |
| 3 | What was that flame that burned inside her and sustained her ? |
| 4 | The only sensation he could equate it with was that remoteness that comes during a long run , when the lines of the play get delivered every night , but the actor 's mind is miles away , thinking about anything but the performance he is giving . |
| 5 | ‘ It was that advert that did it , I think . |
| 6 | Can you imagine if they got cholera on that what was that boat that got cholera on it , it wiped them out , not the Mary Celeste was it ? |
| 7 | But that was another idea that got shelved . ’ |
| 8 | Cranks was another revue that had become a sort of watchword for the kind of show this was . |
| 9 | Thurmaston , just to the north of Leicester , was another village that had become dependent upon framework knitting by the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | The combination of trackside sales and live television coverage in Italy for last autumn 's World Cup qualifying tie was another money-spinner that brought in £800,000 . |
| 11 | The second point , briefly , is that the white paper has turned its face on the establishment of an environmental protection agency , and independent environment protection agency , and erm , you may feel strongly , I know there was another report that came out just about that time that erm was advocating it , and you may feel that what is needed is a central , independent environmental protection agency . |
| 12 | Fatigue , mental rather than physical , was another aspect that imposed limitations . |
| 13 | That was another thing that annoyed her about the child : she always had to find something nice to say . |
| 14 | That was another thing that gave her pleasure ; to listen to Ben playing his whistle . |
| 15 | It was this rivalry that allowed the bank to continue to function after the Tampa arrests , much to Mazur 's disgust . |
| 16 | It was this question that decided me . |
| 17 | It was this self-evidence that gave authority and courage to Posidonius to speak out to remind the Roman rulers of their errors and misdeeds . |
| 18 | The company has been familiarising itself with the technology with its own experimental highly parallel scalar machine called the AP1000 , and it clearly does not trust the literature — it says that it was this machine that taught Fujitsu scientists that ‘ parallel supercomputing requires a radically different approach to programming ’ . |
| 19 | It was this Hope that interfered with it all . |
| 20 | The owner of ‘ The Hollybush ’ at Elstree proposed to infill an original coach arch in the pub 's facade and to demolish the timber framed side walls of the passageway behind in order to form a larger and open interior , even though it was this feature that distinguished the building as an historic inn . |
| 21 | And yet , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I also knew that it was this cold that drew me , this steady destruction of body and imagination , this utter alienness , as though only that could still excite me , as though anything less alien would only leave me indifferent . |
| 22 | It was this principle that seemed now to be inadequate . |
| 23 | Evacuation required the help of a large number of middle-class voluntary workers in the rural areas who , perhaps more than any other section of the population , had very fixed ideas of social propriety ; it was this lobby that propagated the wildly exaggerated and inaccurate stories of the evacuees ' condition . |
| 24 | What it could not agree on was how the budget was to be balanced ; and it was this disagreement that led to the break-up of the government . |
| 25 | It was this provision that gave rise to the loophole sought to be exploited by B.C.C.I. depositors . |
| 26 | It was this thought that held the British government back from putting Lloyd 's firmly under its thumb during the fraud-ridden years of the late 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 27 | It was this thought that started Einstein on the road to his theory of gravity — still the most beautiful way of organizing how we think about the Universe . |
| 28 | ‘ Interest ’ , complained a reforming chaplain , was the only stimulant in the new philosophy and it was this philosophy that inspired nineteenth-century liberalism . |
| 29 | It was this success that made the merchants of England reflect on the desirability of destroying ‘ despotism ’ in Spanish America in order to establish direct trade in a market that British goods and British credit terms would dominate . |
| 30 | Maybe she had finished with sexual intercourse for ever , maybe it was this possibility that gave her this peculiar conviction of strength , this sense of invulnerability , of certainty , of power . |