Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [was/were] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 31 | [ Around 1800 ] persons … were enabled by their skill and industry to maintain themselves and families in a state of comfort and respectability ; and to keep their own houses and pay taxes , scot and lot , and contribute towards the maintenance of other persons in their profession , who were either sick or in distress , so that it was scarcely known that any person in this trade ever applied for parochial relief . |
| 32 | Göring added that it was widely believed that Poland intended to annex East Prussia and Danzig in the near future . |
| 33 | He explained the detailed attention which was paid to the background of a child appearing before the Panel and pointed out that it was often revealed that the children concerned came from large families , which were poor and in which there was an absence of adult male guidance . |
| 34 | Henry was an exacting master , possessed of so much energy that it was popularly rumoured that he could fly , so swiftly did he travel from place to place . |
| 35 | Yesterday , John Wright , counsel for Timex , told Lord Hope , the Lord President , sitting with Lords Allanbridge and Brand , that it was now intended that another interdict would be sought against two officials of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union and two shop stewards . |
| 36 | Furthermore mutual antagonism between France and Germany was so great that it was commonly assumed that only Britain could act as an ‘ honest broker ’ to draw them together . |
| 37 | Today Mr Justice Garland stressed that he was n't suggesting that media coverage of the case should have been restricted . |
| 38 | Ramsey afterwards felt that he was partly to blame that he and Fisher were not closer together . |
| 39 | Secondly , he states that he was never told that there were indications of German intentions to occupy Siwa and Giarabub . |
| 40 | There was then more silence , and I was later told that the Microwriter company had been improving the Agenda system . |
| 41 | There was so little space in the car and I was so cramped that one of the policemen lifted me bodily out on to the road . |
| 42 | The tower was off limits , after all , and someone was just ensuring that the Baron 's orders were carried out to the letter . |
| 43 | And you were then told that he was the great propagandist of those who went around a dozen years or so later breaking down these storeyed windows , richly dykes , because it was of course profane and idolatrous to have that dim religious light in your churches . |
| 44 | For the next moment he was kissing her and she was instantly realising that nothing quite so exciting had ever happened to her before . |
| 45 | They were both selfish individuals and she was now thinking that they deserved each other . |
| 46 | Once she saw , sitting on the pavement before a café , drinking pale green drinks , and embracing , leaning over from their plastic chairs towards each other and embracing , the most beautiful couple ; the man with a face angular and ravaged and tragic , the girl dark and thin , with pale lips in a dark tan face : and she was so moved that she said , aloud to Rosie who was walking with her , " Look , Oh God , look at those lovely people " : and Rosie looked and stared and laughed and said , " Good Lord , what odd ideas you have , I would n't look like that if you gave me a hundred pounds . " |
| 47 | As with other defectors , the glory went to Golitsin 's head and he was soon proposing that he be allowed to establish a world-wide intelligence research organisation with unlimited funds so that he could play out his fantasies against the KGB . |
| 48 | But Dr was a good cricketer , erm he also wrote a very You could also read what Dr put , and he was also said that he sent people to hospital very quickly . |
| 49 | He had been long absent from the public balcony of the Roman palace which he had made his stage , and he was now proving that he was n't in chronic decline , as rumour held , with a pox contracted years ago , but had merely suffered a passing dose of ‘ flu . |
| 50 | Students spent a lot of time travelling ( walking and even running ) from one lecture to another in various parts of London , and it was increasingly demanded that they should find within the walls of the College all that they required , or that they should at least pay a fee that would entitle them as of right , rather than for charity 's sake , to enter medical lectures . |
| 51 | Controversy grew about some of the bolder experiments in egalitarian education , and it was increasingly alleged that basic education , the ‘ three Rs ’ , was being neglected . |
| 52 | Eight overs remained , and it was universally known that the bails would be lifted even if the match was still undecided : an extra pressure on everyone , and another silly regulation among cricket 's banana-skins , this one installed pre-tour by the visiting team . |
| 53 | The evidence produced included a transcript in English of Price 's evidence before the City Court of Gôteborg ; and it was not disputed that this evidence was admissible under paragraph 12 of the Schedule 1 . |
| 54 | Held , ( 1 ) refusing to join B. as a party , that , since B. claimed no personal interest in the money in court and it was not suggested that the money belonged to the ousted regime , her only locus standi would be as a person entitled to represent the Republic of Somalia ; but that , on the evidence , B. had no recognition as a representative of the Republic in the United Kingdom ( post , pp. 749H — 750B ) . |
| 55 | Of these three , bad environment must of course be taken seriously , and it was not suggested that environmental factors did not play an important part in health deterioration , but ‘ environment is not the only factor so operative and possibly not the most important one ’ ( M'Gonigle and Kirby , 1936 , p. 148 ) . |
| 56 | Hitler 's confidence in early victory made a deep impression , and it was widely believed that the final push would begin in March or April . |
| 57 | Gingrich had been the first to lay formal charges which had led to the resignation on June 6 of the Speaker of the House of Representatives , Jim Wright [ see p. 36650 ] , and it was widely believed that his own investigation had been initiated in revenge in April by Representative Bill Alexander ( Dem. , Arkansas ) who on Oct. 26 filed new charges against Gingrich for alleged misuse of campaign funds and of congressional stationery . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | The trial was expected to continue for some time and it was widely believed that evidence would be given which would incriminate politicians still active . |
| 60 | No organization claimed responsibility and it was widely speculated that it had been a mistake by ETA . |