Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result it was held that the sellers ' right to repossess the goods did not arise until the expiry of the credit period allowed by the terms . |
| 2 | There were no photographs around , but what a fool she was to imagine that the expression in his eyes meant more than the harsh words he dealt her . |
| 3 | If a man was lucky enough to get a job it was expected that he would use his position to find jobs for others in his family or village . |
| 4 | I had a husband who was pretending that I did not have cancer , and a mother who tried to inspire me by showing me pictures of Page Three girls under banner headlines of ‘ How I conquered cancer ’ . |
| 5 | By the 1840s there was some knowledge of the rhythm method of birth control from discussions by French physicians Pouchet and Raciborski on women 's ovulation cycle , though for a while it was believed that the safe period was immediately after menstruation . |
| 6 | on appeal from a taxation it was held that it was wrong to depress hourly rates to justify an unjustifiable mark-up. a mark-up in excess of 100% had to be justified by showing that the case was exceptional . |
| 7 | In a way it was flattering that they should take his word . |
| 8 | For nearly a century it was assumed that the primitive vertebrate armour consisted of scales and small polygonal bony plates . |
| 9 | When France and Spain made peace in 1659 after a struggle which had lasted for almost a quarter of a century it was agreed that their representatives , Cardinal Mazarin and Don Luis de Haro , should meet on a small island in the River Bidassoa , which separated their territories in the Pyrenees . |
| 10 | The sugar was identified as either ribose or deoxyribose : for a time it was believed that plant nucleic acids always contained ribose and animal nucleic acids deoxyribose . |
| 11 | Within private care where the element of choice might have been thought to be an advantage it was found that a third of residents did not choose , and for 22 per cent the unsolicited efforts of either a relative , the general practitioner or a social worker led to their admission ( Weaver et al . , |
| 12 | There were red faces when halfway through an interview it was noticed that veteran Hal Roach , who produced the Laurel and Hardy movies , had not buttoned up his trousers properly . |