Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] that it [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must stress that it was not a first-hand observation , but in fact is third-hand . |
| 2 | One must remember that it was specifically this issue of clerical power over schools which was the nub of the controversy in the 1900–14 period . |
| 3 | Firstly one should note that it was not until about 1846 when Liouville published two of his papers that Galois ' work became better known . |
| 4 | And once they were christened , as we might expect , the ‘ Hooligans ’ were understood as an entirely unprecedented and ‘ un-British ’ phenomenon : indeed , we must allow that it was most ingenious of late Victorian England to disown the British Hooligan by giving him an ‘ Irish ’ name . |
| 5 | What was attractive about the American consortium approach — and I must emphasise that it was never a take-over bid , Sikorsky 's stake is only eight per cent — was firstly , we had worked with Sikorsky on and off for forty years . |
| 6 | Therefore , while absence may spell the end of acquaintanceship , it will not in itself destroy friendship ; and while Dr Johnson was right to say that we should keep our friendships in good repair , the perpetual shoring up of friendship might suggest that it were less enduring than we had supposed . |
| 7 | Or you might plead that it was not slanderous because it was true . |
| 8 | You might say that it was n't such a terrible thing , but it 's not the actual abuse that matters so much . |
| 9 | And there was dust and everything went black , all the lights went out , so I mean from that w we could ascertain that it was fairly serious what had happened . |
| 10 | As they drew nearer to the damage and she could see that it was even worse than it had looked from afar , Ronni felt herself recoil at the very thought that her own brother could be responsible for such a thing . |
| 11 | Alice could see that it was not going to be easy for any of them to admit obligation to Jasper , even though he was being correctly impersonal , sitting somewhat to one side of the scene waiting for their approval , the image of a responsible cadre . |
| 12 | He was on a white horse but even she could see that it was not Ana 's horse . |
| 13 | But it was n't ; she could see that it was not a real smile at all . |
| 14 | Even though the figure was wreathed in shadow , they could see that it was hideously deformed . |
| 15 | As she came nearer , I could see that it was indeed Anna , and I stood up and yelled her name across the chaotic traffic of August tourists and pushy little French cars . |
| 16 | His sharp eyes had seen a figure moving in the darkness in front of us , and as the man came closer , I could see that it was indeed Stapleton . |
| 17 | In the sunlight she could see that it was indeed a rather splendid machine . |
| 18 | Via her bluelight , though , Jezrael could see that it was only a minor game of tit-for-tat . |
| 19 | She could see that it was very old — and somehow very frightening . |
| 20 | But she could see that it was too late . |
| 21 | We gave up expecting GLF to solve our problems because we could see that it was essentially a movement built around the freedom to choose and practise your own sexuality . |
| 22 | It was a long time before I could believe that it was really Kāli , come back to find me . |
| 23 | But we could tell that it was longer because of the extra tape measures it would take to get from one side to the other . ’ |
| 24 | He had told me he was going all the way to Stornoway and I could tell that it was quite an event . |
| 25 | It was soon clear that few of those present could comprehend that it was not simply another shooting incident in the army 's war against the Provisional IRA . |
| 26 | Robyn swallowed and took a deep breath , trying to compose herself so that when he returned she could say that it was all right , she felt fine now . |
| 27 | If you weighed them , you 'd find that it was probably a thousand times , ten thousand times less in weight than the ovum and er also many times smaller in volume , and this is typical . |
| 28 | I never thought it would work like this : having been a small child in the 50s when women dressed more or less identically and according to their age and class ( gymslip , good suit , housecoat , then cardigan and pinny ) , I used to think that it was beautifully liberating in the 60s and 70s when convention began to permit a woman of any age to dress in virtually any style , from hooker to schoolmarm . |
| 29 | When he rang Eleanor he would explain that it was only to be a simple snack . |
| 30 | Time would show that it was not quite , perhaps , such a close union as the Queen thought and that mutual esteem between sovereigns , while useful , was no substitute for hard and fast agreements between states . |