Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] that it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment Lucy had thought that it was Jeanette McArdle , but then she realised that it was n't . |
| 2 | Gilbert Scott had said that it was ‘ on the whole , my finest church ’ , but Colonel Akroyd , who had built it as the centrepiece of his remarkable village of Akroyd , had never sufficiently endowed it . |
| 3 | Nicholson appeared to accept that it was possible , but no special relationship was formed between them . |
| 4 | He asked if Hall had forgotten that it was intended eventually to extend the new buildings as far as Great George Street where they would be seen with the Abbey and the Palace of Westminster . |
| 5 | This is hypothetical , of course , but Sweeney Agonistes had demonstrated that it was in such drama , rather than social realism , that his theatrical talents really lay . |
| 6 | Pete had known that it was coming — the only question had been , when ? |
| 7 | Once asked many years ago by a visiting American Congresswoman what it was like having a woman leader , Grunte had replied that it was like being at home all day , a bon mot that had earned him his place in ‘ Sayings of the Week ’ . |
| 8 | Erm Mr Donson seemed to accept that it was er right for local planning authorities through their district wide open plans to give effect to policies in P P G seven for protecting the countryside for its own sake and he er mentioned landscape policies and then development minutes amongst other things . |
| 9 | So I would have heard enough on the phone er because I have n't got my original notes here , I would have heard enough on the phone er Robert to have suggested that it was a good idea to get face to face . |
| 10 | ‘ Mrs Lawler did mention that it was , so at least they 've got some safeguards , ’ Susan replied . |
| 11 | Iran was reported in mid-October to have indicated that it was prepared to continue negotiations only over Abu Musa , governed under an informal joint mandate since 1971 . |
| 12 | During a visit to Poland on Jan. 4 , Klaus had declared that it was " necessary to disband COMECON " and on Jan. 5 the Polish Foreign Trade Minister , Marcin Swiecicki , said that " the time [ had ] come to create in place of COMECON , a new , looser organization " . |
| 13 | On Aug. 6 Canada had said that it was prepared to contribute 500 troops . |
| 14 | A part of Harry wanted to agree that it was possible , although it would be a very long while yet before he had enough money to buy even a small farm of his own and start up his own line of thoroughbreds . |
| 15 | Derek seems to remember that it was shortly after this change that a couple of what could have been nasty instances occurred . |
| 16 | Earlier , in June , the Finance Minister , Theodor Stolojan had said that it was not possible suddenly to remove controls on prices without creating an inflationary spiral in the ensuing price-wage explosion , although he agreed that the current pricing mechanism distorted prices and adversely affected supply and demand . |
| 17 | And then Lily Moore had suggested that it was n't fair , that they ought to take turns at the pulpit and the font . |
| 18 | Down at the one-time pavilion that was now the Venetz sisters ' lakeside restaurant , Angelica Venetz had decided that it was time for the big old mallard 's appointment in duck heaven . |
| 19 | We must remember , too , that Dissenters in the 18th century were not the political revolutionaries they had been in the 17th — there was a sense in which the rabid Nonconformity of one generation became the established respectability of the next , and commentators like Halevy have suggested that it was precisely the innate conservatism of the new dissent , Methodism , which helped stave off revolution in England in the early 19th century — a real opium of the people , in effect . |
| 20 | Burton has declared that it was when he was performing that scene on the stage that he felt the hairs on his neck stand on end and knew for the first time the power he could have over an audience . |
| 21 | Hatecke had recognised that it was possible to obtain control even in diving flight by using the lift force itself instead of any mechanical rudder system . |
| 22 | Miss Jones had argued that it was the coordinating activities of the SPCK which made charity school provision a movement . |
| 23 | The Japanese historian Irokawa Daikichi has suggested that it was only when the economic plight of the early 1880s failed to respond to this conventional morality that some of the lower classes were forced to break out of their limitations in the violent incidents of the time . |
| 24 | Monza was to be decisive for his championship , and Ken Tyrrell has written that it was Jackie 's finest race , not least because he knew he led the championship and because , having already decided to retire , he needed to do no more than the minimum , particularly since he was starting only from sixth place on the grid . |
| 25 | Both Jessica and Nadea seemed to agree that it was fitting and appropriate when I told them my first choice would be to serve with the Royal Canadian Air Force . |
| 26 | Charles had to admit that it was . |
| 27 | Nenna wished to reply that it was not for the expected reasons — not pride , not resentment , not even the curious acquired characteristics of the river dwellers , which made them scarcely at home in London 's streets . |
| 28 | Scarlet had accepted that it was all her fault and endeavoured to do her poor best to compensate him for his unjust circumstances . |
| 29 | Of special significance , Mark Spencer Larsen of southeastern Massachusetts has discovered that it was the females who showed the most marked increase in dental caries . |
| 30 | Simultaneously , Boardrooms across the USA began to accept that it was not always possible or desirable to rely entirely upon home-grown talent , and that managers and executives could be interchangeable between apparently quite different types of business . |