Example sentences of "was [adv] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just that at Summerhill the ‘ kids ’ knew what to do with it . |
| 2 | It was just that at the moment of climax when the escape had to be attempted or abandoned , it became if attempted something quite different from what it had been in the planning . |
| 3 | It was just that after a weekend of weeping over Cameron , and two absolutely hectic days at the office with Helena now also down with chicken-pox , she felt like a bit of glamour . |
| 4 | It was just that in camp the link between sex and behaviour was often cruder and more obvious than in ordinary life . |
| 5 | It was just that in the intervening period she had changed her thinking a little . |
| 6 | It was just that in the end would have been so far the other side of six weeks as to be out of sight , and she could n't stand any more writs , summonses or legal documents in long brown envelopes . |
| 7 | There was always that about Mario , that if he had n't been one hell of a racing driver , you still would have wanted to talk to him ; and that , although he was one hell of a racing driver , you still preferred to talk to him about other matters . |
| 8 | There was always that about him — the Welsh chieftain down from the hills on a raid to seize the bounty of the fat rich oppressor and then ride home back into the trackless labyrinths of his past . |
| 9 | The other guideline which was issued was namely that of capital , where the a accepted the general guidelines which appeared in the county papers and as far as this Committee was concerned , would mean the general acceptance of all those items which appear in that the first year of that capital programme , subject to the proviso that the revenue contemplated and the benefits of the capital programme will be considered by Policy Panel in its forthcoming meeting . |
| 10 | During this period , the most effective co-operation concerning the Kurds was probably that between their adversaries , in other words , the governments of Iraq and Turkey . |
| 11 | The most important form of such journeys , in quantitative terms , was probably that to the family summer holiday or ( for the more affluent and overfed ) to the annual cure at some spa . |
| 12 | It was here that in 1846 a revised version of Catherine 's largely unsuccessful Charter to the Towns ( 1785 ) created the first urban institutions capable of significantly improving local amenities . |
| 13 | In fact , one of the major tensions was precisely that between the residual kinship patterns and the new form of relationships that were being constructed in the course of the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | It was then that with Nicky Fairbairn , Meehan 's solicitors ( including the latest , David Burnside ) and an MP Frank McElhone , I formed the Patrick Meehan Committee , committed to campaigning on his behalf until justice was done . |
| 15 | it was there that in 1973 the first taekwondo world championships took place . |