Example sentences of "was [adv] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of this she never had any time for her own parents : my mother could n't think it was right that they 'd parted with two of their children . ’ |
| 2 | My husband was right that nothing could exist on this planet . |
| 3 | It was right that she should make it suffer for what it had done . |
| 4 | If he needed to be questioned again it was right that it should be at home and with his parents present . |
| 5 | I told Kidsons that I did n't think it was right that I should seek re-election , which was coming up on 30 April , and left it at that . ’ |
| 6 | I thought that it was right that I should talk to you , try and build a better picture of Michael . ’ |
| 7 | So you won , Ragu , and in retrospect I think it was right that you did . |
| 8 | Coleridge rationalized the departure in his poem ‘ Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement ’ , asking whether it was right that he should live in beauty and solitude while his ‘ unnumber 'd brethren toil 'd and bled ’ in the greater world . |
| 9 | It was rarely that he felt such a direct clash between his twin roles as actor and detective . |
| 10 | It was enough that she had to work with him . |
| 11 | It was enough that he should have taken the trouble to visit her and offer his apologies . |
| 12 | It was enough that he should receive food and shelter most nights ; many of his family had not been so lucky . |
| 13 | I 've let you play your games , you and Joseph , and I 've said it was nothing to me , it was enough that I was a painter . |
| 14 | But I thought you were saying in answer to a question my was putting to you that one of the reasons for shouting armed police was so that everybody knows you 're armed police . |
| 15 | So give us some indication of what sort of press release it was so that we know what we 're talking about in the |
| 16 | Erm but one of the reasons that , that we got the audience was , was so that they , they obviously the audience were prepared to pay for the fact that |
| 17 | I suppose that it was filmed where it was so that she 'll be in it . |
| 18 | Explain at once to the speechreader what the mistake was so that he can share the joke , otherwise he may feel uncomfortable and puzzled by the reactions to his remark . |
| 19 | and the design of that was so that it will stay on , built in by design . |
| 20 | ‘ Another reason for setting up my workshop near here was so that I would n't lose touch with my mother . ’ |
| 21 | It was merely that he never wanted in a tournament round to risk anything which might upset his endlessly repetitive ritual and rhythm . |
| 22 | It was merely that she had learned from her life with him that , like many married women , she did n't really need a husband . |
| 23 | It was less that I was too proud , more that I was too embarrassed . |
| 24 | We made two hundred and forty five pounds on Thriller of the Year one hundred and nineteen pounds on Tea for Two but that is after we 've made the three hundred pounds donation to Whiston Hospital we made a thousand and eighteen pounds on the panto Wuthering Heights we lost four hundred and nine pounds , but that was basically that we do costume plays and have to hire the erm fixtures and set pieces from Wrightsons or wherever we 're always going to be in this position and I think it 's the tradition of the Garrick that we continue to do them , and I think we have to accept that we may have losses in future on those particular erm things . |
| 25 | There was only that one with the bit of enamel chipped off . |
| 26 | it was only that you stumbled over it . |
| 27 | It was only that none of this was quite what he had been used to . |
| 28 | Well tha well oh well that 's alright , it was only that it 'd be I thought you said there was a place for your name and address that had n't been filled in by the computer so you filled it in ? |
| 29 | It was thus that I had been able to gain some sense of the sort of place Miss Kenton had gone to live her married life . |
| 30 | It was thus that it acquired its unique form : 35 km long and about 1.6 km wide with steep sides sloping to a flat bed . |