Example sentences of "the [noun] [to-vb] that it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two bronze Moors on the clock-tower outside hammered on the bells to announce that it was midday . |
| 2 | It trivialises the issue to say that it was merely the result of panic — although there was certainly panic in good measure . |
| 3 | The last grants to pass the great seal ( although others were in the pipeline ) were the appointments of the chief baron of the exchequer and two serjeants at law on 14 and 15 June — a last attempt by the establishment to pretend that it was business as normal . |
| 4 | The last grants to pass the great seal ( although others were in the pipeline ) were the appointments of the chief baron of the exchequer and two serjeants at law on 14 and 15 June — a last attempt by the establishment to pretend that it was business as normal . |
| 5 | The funds were designated for humanitarian rather than military aid , but given that such funds freed existing funds for arms purchase , it was not difficult for critics of the WCC to argue that it was supporting terrorism . |
| 6 | It could not be done on this day and at this spot but he had heard and seen enough of the bouldery , rocky , unstable earth treachery of the district to know that it was possible . |
| 7 | To what extent is it necessary for the prosecutor to show that it was the purpose of the defendant to make the task of the police the more difficult ? |
| 8 | The Japanese government , along with the Japanese business sector , gave NAFTA a cool response and announced that it would ask the GATT secretariat to examine the treaty to ensure that it was in accord with multilateral trade rules . |
| 9 | Sir David Scott Cairns OC , our counsel , thereupon rose from his seat and mildly brandished the licence to say that it was all permitted . |
| 10 | No one could be found after the sale to say that it was crazy to pay sums of up to £40,000 for garnitures which until recently were as deeply unfashionable in the English house as the aspidistra . |
| 11 | Not only is this virtually impossible ( and improbable ) in cases of injury — fatal or otherwise — to employees or the public , but in cases of financial irregularities it is always open for the suspect(s) to plead that it was not his intention to defraud shareholders , indeed even though he engaged in what appears to be financially irregular practices , his intention all along had been to improve shareholders ' financial interests , but unfortunately due to unforeseeable circumstances , matters went sour . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the two chemists obtained sufficient of the material to indicate that it was a polymer of ethylene . |