Example sentences of "that [noun] was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little evidence to support the view that Nizan was anything other than a faithful , orthodox party member ; a Stalinist in short . |
| 2 | But in the isolation that their riches had brought about , and in their serene acceptance that privilege was their due , they did not anticipate for a moment the press of people Don Antonio Beatillo 's idiosyncratic will would bring to their door . |
| 3 | Venantius Fortunatus reveals that Chilperic was his father 's favourite . |
| 4 | He was so sure that Barney was his man , even though the evidence against him was n't strong enough to arrest him , that he 'd had the cheek to warn him off . |
| 5 | Here , too , the Hammonds were concerned to dismiss suggestions that Luddism was anything more than a despairing form of industrial protest without any real degree of political revolutionary intent . |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't do it grudgingly , I 'd resigned myself to the fact that football was his burning passion . |
| 7 | He was a calm , modest , and patient man , which made it seem obvious that fly-fishing was his chosen hobby . |
| 8 | The truth is , that Darwin was something of , of a Lamarckian in his own lifetime . |
| 9 | It seems likely that Gray was his first victim and Branson the second . |
| 10 | Not that Segesta was itself a Greek community : the Segestans were Elymiots , that is , natives , of some kind not yet understood , although the scribblings from their vases are in Greek letters , Kokalos , 1967 , pp. 233ff. and their architecture was Greek . |
| 11 | We all knew that Steven was regarded as an eligible bachelor , but we did n't think that marriage was what he was eligible for . |
| 12 | Not that Alexander was anyone 's fool . |
| 13 | You must have known that girl was nothing to do with me — you just wanted revenge . ’ |
| 14 | It has to be faced , as the knowledge that Fergus was my brother had to be faced . |
| 15 | He admitted that Estella was his housekeeper 's daughter , adopted by Miss Havisham to give her the chance of a better life . |
| 16 | Both shared the common assumption that Spain was itself decadent and ‘ behind ’ Europe : the radicals were pessimists and wholesale Europeanizers like the later Progressive Liberals , while the Caroline bureaucrats were moderate patriots who resented the airs of superiority which the French philosophes adopted towards Spain . |
| 17 | Not only had Margrida assumed that Simon was her boyfriend , but Celeste had clearly thought the same yesterday — and just now a hearty , middle-aged Dalgety executive had stopped her to say how fortunate their new driver was to have such a pretty and successful young lady as his amor . |
| 18 | Everett pointed out this was ridiculous , and reminded the comrades that management was everything , especially in a risk-capital venture such as this . |
| 19 | Alexei thought that if the phrasing of the observation suggested that Burun was anything other than his own master , it was surely an accident . |
| 20 | Miss Honey felt confident that she would have no difficulty in convincing Mr and Mrs Wormwood that Matilda was something very special indeed . |
| 21 | Some , perhaps not without malice , averred that Capella was what did for Mars in the first place , god knows how many aeons ago . |
| 22 | Lately , he had begun to think that evolution was something that would occur in the soul and , in time , the fripperies of science would be revealed to be dangerous toys . |
| 23 | Thus , between 1744 and 1767 , Hermann Samuel Reimarus , a professor at Hamburg , had argued that Jesus was nothing more than a failed Judaic revolutionary whose body was removed from its tomb by his disciples . |
| 24 | In it he expressed the view that Jesus was our representative who reconciled us to God . |
| 25 | Oliver was told that Monks was his half-brother , and the boy stared at him in shock and amazement . |
| 26 | Except that red was her favourite colour , she thought confusedly . |
| 27 | ‘ Easily the most promising , ’ judged Pacey , in 1961 ; and George Woodcock added that Leonard was one ‘ who could write lines which are no longer good imitation Yeats ; they are lines which only Yeats could have imitated . ’ |
| 28 | The girl remained unseen , but the man emerged a moment later , his eyes , as they caught Huy 's , switching from initial guilt to fraternal collusion as he saw that Huy was someone he did not know . |
| 29 | But a few months before , Céline had had a baby girl , Adèle , and she claimed that Adèle was my child . |
| 30 | She had no other great-nieces or nephews and it was accepted that Sara was her darling , that Sara was to get Moorlake House and what little money and possessions Aunt Alicia had left . |