Example sentences of "[was/were] that [pers pn] [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah well at the end of the day I mean I I was n't there but a the facts at the end of the day were that they 'd been buggering about with that radio system which they should n't do . |
| 2 | What proved to be the trouble was that they had been munching handfuls of powdered soap . |
| 3 | What she felt , and what she resented , was that she 'd been tricked ! |
| 4 | For the truth was that she 'd been offered promotion a dozen times — in spite of the fact that when she 'd started as a trainee she 'd had no formal training , no experience , nothing to commend her but a fistful of ambition . |
| 5 | He used a lot of abstruse terms like " cricoid " but what it amounted to was that she had been strangled . |
| 6 | Her defence was that she had been influenced to sign by duress on the part of her husband . |
| 7 | What Alice could not forgive herself was that she had been taken in by it all well , she had had the sense to get out in time , and meet people who could lead her on the right path … |
| 8 | Still she wondered who it was that she had been responding to . |
| 9 | Her boast was that she had been dancing at every RAF and American air force station within a 30-mile radius , and that she would n't look at any male with a rank lower than Squadron Leader or the American equivalent . |
| 10 | I felt that way myself — the difference was that he had been living longer . |
| 11 | And all he would say was that he had been delayed . |
| 12 | Another was that he had been elected to the Students ' Council at his school , Westmount High , and to its Board of Publishers . |
| 13 | His case was that he had been using the public lavatory for proper purposes when the the police burst into his cubicle and arrested him , and that he had had no contact of any kind with the co-defendant . |
| 14 | The only reason for Mr. Bell being before the justice was that he had been arrested without warrant under section 7(3) of the Act of 1976 and was being brought before her under section 7(4) . |
| 15 | The fact was that he had been seduced . |
| 16 | His excuse was that he had been praying . |
| 17 | Nastier still , from Foley 's point of view , was that he had been told to go and live at Mytchett Place as well . |
| 18 | The other thing that was said about him , particularly towards the end , after the U-turn on economic policy , was that he 'd been captured by his officials , and that he also , in the end , rather relished the company of the permanent secretaries more than he did his Cabinet colleagues . |
| 19 | Another possibility , also in view of your youth , was that you 'd been seduced by the idea of flouting convention by involving yourself with a married man . |
| 20 | But the important thing was , the impression that everyone er had , who read the paper , was that I had been interviewed by the press . |
| 21 | They would n't understand how earth-shaking it was that I 'd been dreaming at last . |
| 22 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |
| 23 | One hypothesis which had gained wide acceptance and which was consistent with the damage to the aircraft was that it had been hit in error by a NATO missile . |
| 24 | The result was that it had been increased only twice and now stood at the princely sum of £30 . |