Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv] [verb] [that] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was just thinking that this is a most unexpected setting to find the Midnight Raider in . ’ |
| 2 | So I was just saying that this year it would be hopefully everybody will go through it . |
| 3 | But it could not have happened to anyone else , she was almost forgetting that this had not been exactly a freak accident in the way that everyone thought . |
| 4 | Part of the misconception arose because the bones of early humans have often been found with bones of other animals , and it was simplistically assumed that this showed that they had killed and eaten other animals , and had later died amid the remains of previous meals . |
| 5 | It was generally believed that this would increase their efficiency in line with private industry . |
| 6 | It was generally accepted that this was best achieved by attacking enemy tactical aircraft on their airfields . |
| 7 | His15 in S. faecalis HPr has a relatively low p K a ( 6.1 ) and it was generally accepted that this resulted from the direct interaction between the side chains of His15 and Arg17 . |
| 8 | It was generally agreed that this legislation could only be viewed as punitive , particularly in an area such as West Belfast , which is devoid of any real opportunities for employment . |
| 9 | Lynch knocked out Peter Kane of Golborne in the thirteenth round , and it was generally agreed that this had been one of the finest contests between flyweight boxers . |
| 10 | His views on divisive issues such as abortion , crime and affirmative action were not clearly defined , however , and it was generally thought that this factor , together with his general pragmatism , would assist him in seeking to heal the current divisions within the Republican Party . |
| 11 | It was also resolved that this article should appear in ‘ Contact ’ to inform members of Convocation of the course of action that has been forced on Standing Committee by Hong Kong Branch due to their noncompliance with the standing orders of the Branch Constitution . |
| 12 | It was also suggested that this faction was backed by elements in Vietnam who feared a type of democratic " domino effect " if open elections were to take place in Cambodia . |
| 13 | It was also expected that this decision would lead to the building of a power station to use the lignite . |
| 14 | However , it was also shown that this gate mechanism was controlled by impulses descending from the brain . |
| 15 | It was later revealed that this was the 15th such shipment to Israel since October 1990 ( the majority of which had been made under BND auspices ) . |
| 16 | When it was later discovered that this was not the case , the final ‘ e ’ was dropped and the name became vitamin . |
| 17 | It was later learned that this was a boat from the Guiding Lights which had brought her drugs ashore while the first inflatable ferried our food and fuel . |
| 18 | The government initially claimed that it had no prior notice of the Commission 's intention to initiate proceedings , but it was later disclosed that this had been the subject of correspondence between the Commission and the Department of Transport . |
| 19 | 1 patient proved positive but because the patient was an injection drug user undergoing lymph-node biopsy it was reasonably assumed that this was not an occupational exposure . |
| 20 | In his letter of Aug. 14 Saddam had underlined his determination " not to keep any of Iraq 's potential outside the arena of the great duel " and it was widely believed that this implied either an intention to consolidate Iraqi gains in Kuwait or launch an attack against Saudi Arabia . |
| 21 | It was widely believed that this provision had been specifically inserted to prevent a return to office by Ríos Montt , an evangelical Protestant who had come to power in the wake of a military coup and ruled as dictator from March 1982 to August 1983 [ see pp. 31605-07 ; 32494-96 ] . |
| 22 | It was widely known that this promised to be a vintage year for books , thanks to an amazingly generous benefaction from a special friend of St.A 's & St.G 's . |
| 23 | It was hoped that the fund would raise some 6,000 million forints ( about US$80,000,000 ) in 1991/1992 , although it was widely predicted that this would be insufficient to provide for the estimated 300,000 unemployed in Hungary . |
| 24 | On balance , however , it was generaly agreed that this feature did not warrant the de-selection of ( i ) as the best possible opening to the story . |
| 25 | It was mistakenly assumed that this trend represented a return to more traditional literary values ; an examination of such works reveals a postmodernist contestation of the conventional boundaries between genres and an intertextual mixture of writings , of which the fragmented subjectivity of the writer was itself a discourse capable of being plundered in order to generate text . |
| 26 | It was then argued that this provides the basis for preventive or corrective intervention in the form of competition policy . |
| 27 | And as the boat station had been there before nineteen sixty six , probably a hundred years before nineteen sixty six , it was then claimed that this person had adverse possession , which in short , is squatter 's rights . |
| 28 | Above all , over a unilateral nuclear policy , a stance previously adopted with fervour by Kinnock and Michael Foot before him , it was now accepted that this was a programme unpopular with the mass of the British people , and actually rejected by the glasnost of President Gorbachev as well . |
| 29 | However , it was quickly realised that this area was much too extensive and the southern part of rural Bedfordshire remained largely unvisited during the three-year period . |
| 30 | For example , for a short time the role of chairperson was delegated to a DCSL , and it was subsequently acknowledged that this was inappropriate , given the status and function of that position in the library service . |