Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] that it [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gather that you built it yourself in one of your sheds and that it was there until Saturday afternoon , the day of the festival — is that right ? ’ |
| 2 | In tracing that elusive ancestor the family historian therefore needs to be aware that long before the age of the railways people did sometimes travel long distances and that it was very common for men , women and adolescents to move within a few miles radius of their birthplace . |
| 3 | By Nov. 1 1943 the German C-in-C Southeast had concluded ‘ that Tito 's forces had to be treated as a full military threat and not merely as insurgents and that it was more important to defeat them than to prepare against the less likely threat of an Allied landing ’ . |
| 4 | The next day Professor Pearn , who was working in intelligence , came in to warn me that the Japs were breaking through from Taung-gyi and that it was only a matter of hours before they would reach Maymyo . |
| 5 | Generally speaking , so far as English Law is concerned , it will be necessary to show that there was some ‘ proximity ’ between the damage suffered by the claimant and the engineer 's acts or omissions and that it was reasonably foreseeable that the engineer 's acts or omissions would cause loss to the claimant . |
| 6 | She said she was driving an ambulance in the air raids and that it was very exciting but dreadfully tiring ; sometimes she went to bed after breakfast and slept until evening . |