Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [verb] that it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The air raids and gas attacks that everyone had feared did not take place but Anne and Sarah agreed that it was the small inconveniences of war that were hardest to bear . |
| 2 | It was not long after that , though , that the rain decided once again to make an appearance and Ven decreed that it was in for the rest of the day . |
| 3 | As for the philosophers , Plato thought that all progress consisted in trying to approximate to a pre-existing model in the timeless world of transcendental forms and Aristotle believed that it was the realization of a form which was already present potentially . |
| 4 | But Dierdriu only smiled at him , and Fergus saw that it was the cruel , charming smile of her ancestors , who had lain with the wolves . |
| 5 | Both Gimbert and Lascubé argued that it was Griffiths who was responsible for the collapsed scrums , but obviously Gimbert 's inexperience played a part in his inability to work out a solution . |
| 6 | Keynes has shown that he and his brothers , six of them according to Florence of Worcester , appear in the witness lists of royal charters for some time before 1006 ; but it was in 1007 that Eadric received his ealdormanry , and Florence says that it was Eadric who had Ælfhelm murdered and the king who blinded his sons . |
| 7 | Pete called , and Wayne signalled that it was . |
| 8 | He told Daniel about the terrible St Rémy painting of the blasted tree , about noir-rouge , and Daniel said that it was odd that these orchards should be all over the walls of other asylums now , to cheer people up . |
| 9 | This seemed like a Falangist revival , for it was the first session that had been held since 1945 and Franco asserted that it was " necessary that the National Council should recover the role which corresponds to it in the political tasks , because it is hierarchically the highest body in the Movement , whose duty it is to ensure the purity of the organization and the continuity of the doctrine " .18 But many of those present , including the Vice-Secretary of FET , Diego Salas Pombo , detected behind the smokescreen of verbiage a lack of genuine commitment to Arrese 's plan for a Falange-dominated future . |
| 10 | ‘ And God saw that it was good . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ And God saw that it was good . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ And God saw that it was good ’ . |
| 13 | And Jack knew that it was . |
| 14 | The cancer of the breast was hopelessly advanced and Young felt that it was the result of wearing fashionably tight dresses , ‘ very beautiful in a picture and there only to be admired … |
| 15 | And Maurin replied that it was easy to guess . |
| 16 | There was something funny here , and Lydia suspected that it was not the sort of funniness that she would enjoy . |
| 17 | Both Arundel and Warenne asserted that it was the right of the magnates to advise and support the king in the great affairs of the realm , and that the charges the king had made against Stratford should be heard by his peers . |
| 18 | The latter was lively and talkative tonight , and Belinda suspected that it was an attempt to lighten her own spirits after their discussion about Tom . |
| 19 | When she got pregnant her social worker booked her into here , as there was not much space at her home and Barbara agreed that it was n't right that her mother should have her back with a baby as well . |
| 20 | Brown and Harris found that it was not only discrete events which could provoke depression . |
| 21 | George had every right to be a bit angry with Lennie because Lennie had caused George to loose his job and Lennie had ‘ adopted ’ George as his family and George knew that it was going to be a long hard task keeping Lennie out of trouble and looking after him . |
| 22 | The room had seating capacity for about eighty and Mark saw that it was about half full . |
| 23 | Other girls had seen him leaving too and Annie felt that it was only a matter of time before her friend was found out . |
| 24 | I hope that it will not be as bad as I fear , but experience of the National Bus Company in England and Wales shows that it was worse than we feared . |
| 25 | The vessel dipped above the surface of the river and Rostov judged that it was hovering roughly over the spot where the escape pod had disappeared . |