Example sentences of "[verb] [that] it [was/were] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had taken a week to obtain , and had Hapsburg officialdom realized that it was for him rather than Aranyos it would have been unlikely to arrive before the end of the war . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't think Simone would have mentioned it if she had n't felt that it was for your own good , ’ he murmured . |
| 3 | In this way the child learnt that it was in his own interest for the experimenter to go to the empty box . |
| 4 | I can only assume that it was from his previous experience as chairman of the Greater London council in 1985-86 that he learnt all about ’ getting your friends appointed to the key jobs ’ , and that that is why he assumes that the same is happening in the civil service now . |
| 5 | I had told him to look at a video of the race and he would see that it was through my efforts that we had won the bronze . |
| 6 | On the other hand , on a different occasion she expressed feelings of depression and powerlessness in the face of professional opinion , conceding that she might allow him to go to residential school if it could be shown that it was in his best interests . |
| 7 | The authors do not acknowledge the source of Escoffier 's account , but recount that it was during his days as an army chef de cuisine at the siege of Metz in 1870 that he had first grasped the necessity of improving the techniques of canning food . |
| 8 | Saddam Hussein threatened that it was in his power to sponsor terrorist attacks on the countries ranged against him . |
| 9 | Perhaps just because she was Bob 's fiancée — but Tessa felt that it was for herself as well . |
| 10 | The Amen at the end implies that it was in its extant form intended to be preached , as does its survival , along with three of Wulfstan 's homiletic tracts , in a gospel book . |
| 11 | But Caspar , belatedly gallant , said that it was for him to lead the way . |
| 12 | They said that it was of himself and that the parcel contained a gun which had been taken to pieces so that he could carry it inconspicuously . |
| 13 | They said that it was in everyone 's interest that he got caught . |
| 14 | The Saturday Review , presumably from the pen of Hope , said that it was in what it called the ‘ modern palatial Gothic ’ style : |
| 15 | ‘ Good , ’ he commented , and , making her heart leap with pleasure , ‘ I have to drive to Karlovy Vary this morning , and wondered , since you 've stated that it was on your itinerary , if you 'd like to come with me ? ’ |
| 16 | Woolwich paid because it calculated that it was in its commercial interest to do so . |
| 17 | The taxpayer , it said , had not established that it was beyond his powers to obtain the information . |
| 18 | By his order dated 14 July 1992 the judge granted a declaration that it was not unlawful for the first or third defendants to administer a blood transfusion to T. if they considered that it was in her best interests to do so . |