Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] that it [was/were] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would stake my life on it , ’ will not be able to claim either that it was a mere trader 's puff or that it was a mere statement of opinion . |
| 2 | When in 1952 Michael Ventris announced he had succeeded in deciphering Linear B and that it was an archaic form of Greek , howls of indignant refutation were raised by the fraternity of linguistic experts as a matter of course , and when , with that beautiful sense of timing which nemesis has , a whole library of Linear B tablets was unearthed in Pylos on the Greek mainland one year later , translations of which confirmed Ventris 's conclusion , the experts did the only thing they could under the circumstances : they accused the discoverer and Ventris of having forged them . |
| 3 | Secondly , that I think Ryedale was under the impression that Policy E two would n't affect local authorities ' choice of allocated sites but that it was a policy to apply outside of developing units and those sites we wish to allocate in local plan and not that was going to restrict our choice , in our case in those sites . |
| 4 | when we played CBGB 's this guy who 's some sort of junior manager for Marvel came up afterwards and said he really liked the band and that it was a shit thing they sued us . ’ |
| 5 | Stradling writes , " Until comparatively recently the prevailing view on political education in England was either that it was already adequately taken care of through History , Geography , Social or General Studies or that it was a wholly unsuitable subject for the school curriculum . " |
| 6 | In their petition , the Gascon clergy and nobility reminded Edward that his predecessors as ‘ lords ’ ( domini ) of Aquitaine , and their seneschals , had made full use of this assembly and that it was a valuable weapon in his armoury against the pretensions of the king of France and his officers . |
| 7 | For a while he had thought that his masturbating friends all had VD and that it was a dollop of pus coming out when they pulled at themselves . |
| 8 | There then followed a long period of muddle and confusion not helped by the fact that no one had a recent photograph of Blake and that it was a Saturday evening . |
| 9 | The Divisional Court thought it ‘ clear to everyone , and to the justices in particular , that any suggestion of peaceful picketing was a colourable pretence and that it was a question of picketing by intimidation and threat ’ . |
| 10 | The Builder commented that the submission date of 1st February , 1857 gave too short a time and that it was a mistake to divide the competition into three parts . |