Example sentences of "was that [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I just say , Chairman , that the problem was that they asked for , the region asked for equal representation with the County Council , now if all the districts did that then there 'd be , then the Grants Panel would have about twenty one people to I mean , for the operation to go ahead . |
| 2 | One idea was that they roll downslope from the submarine volcanic vent like plastic bags full of water , before piling up on top of one another ; another was that they whizzed along the sea bed , supported by a cushion of collapsing steam bubbles ; while a third suggested that ‘ pillows ’ are n't separate entities at all , but long , worm-like tubes whose thickness varies along their length . |
| 3 | What was interesting about those MPs who were swift to defend him was that they come from the traditional working-class wing of the parliamentary party — people like Jimmy Hood , or Aberdeen North 's Bob Hughes . |
| 4 | His guess was that they belonged to another of their members . |
| 5 | A large number of coins was found in ‘ the mortary destruction layer ’ of the vestibule and in ‘ robbing pits ’ in the cella , and the assumption was that they came from hoards buried in the temple floors or structure and were scattered when demolition took place . |
| 6 | The response of the committee was that they adhered to their previous decision to allow them to do so only once a quarter . |
| 7 | And I was in a ca , er school over the summer holidays and er , we were looking at the design and technology and the point was that they got ta design and make some components , and realise I 'm talking about , you know , six , seven , eight year old , mixed girls and boys theirselves , and it was ra rather heart-warming to see where the way these youngsters react . |
| 8 | His argument was that they expect to be certain , and therefore interpret any doubt as evidence of unbelief : |
| 9 | The trouble was that they voted against the large numbers of unemployed and voted for Fascist and Nazi Governments . |
| 10 | The survivors were mostly younger sisters , but the striking thing about the teenage girl compositors traced through the CECOS Report , was that they tended to be the eldest children of large families . |
| 11 | And the only record that we have in scripture of any evidence of folk having received the Holy Spirit was that they spoke with other tongues . |
| 12 | What happened was that we returned to our roots . |
| 13 | In view of our starting comment on Friday morning , acknowledging that Mr had some reservations about it , was that we had at least aim district . |
| 14 | Sometimes we will be going upstairs to get something but , by the time we are there , we have forgotten what it was that we went for . |
| 15 | Mr Clarke said : ‘ The key requirement was that we look after our people as well as we possibly could in these extreme circumstances . |
| 16 | The first of these conditions ( which in some respects contrast sharply with the regulation in Britain before 1985 ) was that there had to be factual grounds to suspect a person of having committed a crime contrary to the security of the state . |
| 17 | The important point was that there seemed to be no way of determinately reversing this higher-to-lower translation unless the target high-level language was already known . |
| 18 | The first thing we discovered was that there seemed to be almost no information to go on . |
| 19 | And thus it was that she came to be , that February evening , standing at the top of the tower block staircase , leaning against the wall and panting a little from her climb , pausing for a moment and thinking gloomy thoughts about life and death . |
| 20 | And thus it was that she came to be , on that February evening , poised at the very crown of the hill in Kensington Gardens , looking down the hill , with her back to Bayswater and home and trembling with the fear that she had at last grown up . |
| 21 | All she knew was that she counted on Thomas . |
| 22 | Well , the main theory was that she fell into the river on one of her walks . |
| 23 | The real reason was that he felt at ease ; he was no longer a figure of fun or an eyesore , he had a place — just as he did at first with Sien . |
| 24 | The irritating thing was that he seemed to be unaware of the beneficial effects of AZT , or the creative potential of AIDS sufferers . |
| 25 | Her first reaction on seeing the tousle-haired bejeaned actor was that he looked like a slob , but ‘ I thought he was very sexy . ’ |
| 26 | Hagans was staying at a bail hostel at the time where the only restriction was that he had to be in beween 11 a.m. in the evening and 7 a.m. in the morning . |
| 27 | The trouble was that he got under her skin . |
| 28 | What she did know was that he lived with his mother and two brothers , and that after the war he would go back to work in an insurance office . |
| 29 | If , for example , a man was known as ‘ Father of James ’ the probability was that he lived with his wife 's people and dutifully avoided his mother-in-law in the appointed manner . |
| 30 | Perhaps Ken 's one failing was that he belonged to a breed of footballer who would later include Charlie George , Rodney Marsh and Emlyn Hughes — big heads . |