Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] that [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was strange to think that if there were creatures smaller than nomes , little people perhaps the size of ants , her own face might look like that . |
| 2 | Looking at her across the table , it was hard to imagine that once he had thought her the most exotic extraordinary thing in the entire world . |
| 3 | It was extraordinary to think that once he had loved this woman to distraction , and now all he wanted was never to see her again . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) Directing that the money remain in court , that , where solicitors sought payment out to them of money belonging to a foreign state , if the court was not satisfied that the solicitors had authority to act on behalf of that state , it should , of its own motion if necessary , require them to obtain that authority and ensure that the money remained under the court 's control meanwhile ; that the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a regime existed as the government of a state were whether it was the constitutional government of the state , the degree , nature and stability of administrative control that it exercised over the territory of the state , whether Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings with it and the nature of any such dealings and , in marginal cases , the extent of its international recognition as the government of the state ; that on the evidence , M. 's interim government did not become the constitutional successor of the former government and was unable to show that if it was exercising any administrative control over the territory of the Republic of Somalia ; and , accordingly , the instructions and authority the solicitors had received from the interim government were not from the Government of the Republic of Somalia , and no part of the proceeds in court should be paid out to the solicitors without further order of the court ( post , pp. 750G–H , 757E–G ) . |
| 5 | I was pleased to note that since they 'd acquired Posis they were getting almost quick about it . |
| 6 | He was stunned to find that if he turned a knob , music came out of the tiny speaker , and he never stopped playing with it . |
| 7 | Jaqueline had retired from her job early to care for her 69-year-old mother with senile dementia , and was outraged to find that because she had a husband she did not qualify for the invalid care allowance . |
| 8 | Barth therefore concluded that it was correct to argue that if we could define God then God must exist . |