Example sentences of "[that] it was [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | London Underground admitted last night that it was buying more and more from overseas . |
| 2 | Really , what we needed to do was to read through make sure that it was covered adequately but on the other hand , if they 've come across something twice and not if i , if it was in brackets I did n't count it , did you do |
| 3 | All one can say about the legend of Mu is that it was invented recently and has no scientific backing whatsoever . |
| 4 | This proposal to establish a council which would in effect supervise the government of the realm while the king was overseas was the clearest echo of the Ordinances , though with the crucial difference that it was to function only as long as the king was out of the realm : it was not the intention of the commons to subject the king permanently to conciliar restraint . |
| 5 | It is hard to say how directly the King reminded the Company that it was doing well because it had been granted a monopoly of the English market . |
| 6 | Its profitable career showed that it was doing better than the trading companies launched in Charles 's reign . |