Example sentences of "that [noun prp] 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 | Venantius Fortunatus reveals that Chilperic was his father 's favourite . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The truth is , that Darwin was something of , of a Lamarckian in his own lifetime . |
| 5 | It seems likely that Gray was his first victim and Branson the second . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Not that Alexander was anyone 's fool . |
| 8 | It has to be faced , as the knowledge that Fergus was my brother had to be faced . |
| 9 | He admitted that Estella was his housekeeper 's daughter , adopted by Miss Havisham to give her the chance of a better life . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Alexei thought that if the phrasing of the observation suggested that Burun was anything other than his own master , it was surely an accident . |
| 13 | Miss Honey felt confident that she would have no difficulty in convincing Mr and Mrs Wormwood that Matilda was something very special indeed . |
| 14 | Some , perhaps not without malice , averred that Capella was what did for Mars in the first place , god knows how many aeons ago . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In it he expressed the view that Jesus was our representative who reconciled us to God . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But a few months before , Céline had had a baby girl , Adèle , and she claimed that Adèle was my child . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There is , however , no reason to think that Franco was anything other than sincere when he stated his terms in this way . |
| 22 | One man described his experience of depression in this way : ‘ Early in the crisis I became deeply aware that God was my ally . |
| 23 | I had already told the Marshal that if anything happened to the King , he must take Flavia to Strelsau , tell the people that Duke Michael had killed the King — and that Flavia was their Queen . |
| 24 | He had no doubt in his mind that Celia was his and that was why Liza had married John Carrow . |
| 25 | An idea rocketed into her mind , and without stopping to examine it she rushed on , ‘ Is it possible that you even thought that Rob was my date last night ? |
| 26 | With nothing but The Graduate to go on , one would think , for example , that Berkeley was ideologically indistinguishable from Pasadena and that California was one vast , overflowing , suburban swimming pool … |
| 27 | How could he explain that Kate was his last chance ? |
| 28 | As she curled up in bed once more she reflected that it would be very nice to have a third person in the house , quite apart from the fact that Gay was her best friend . |
| 29 | The latest reshuffle , immediately following victory , was supposed to confirm , once and for all , that Major was his own man . |
| 30 | This Henry almost persuaded them to do — until the Young King also demanded that Richard should swear his oath on a holy relic ; at which Richard simply turned round and declared that Aquitaine was his anyway by right from his mother and had nothing to do with anyone else . |