Example sentences of "that [pron] was [vb pp] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the circumstances of the last charge brought against me point to the probability that I was arrested at the urgent instance of the Home Office . |
| 2 | The details of Julian 's life are not known , but it is highly unlikely that she was professed at the time of her visionary experience — if at all . |
| 3 | So successful was the system that it was reintroduced at the beginning of World War II . |
| 4 | It is scarcely conceivable in the political climate of the time that the alternative would have been adopted as a matter of policy , but that it was avoided at the cost of serious reductions in the level of policing in much of the country suggests a conscious choice . |
| 5 | All four men stood in the room and Farrell raised the pistol once more so that it was aimed at the agent 's head . |
| 6 | It was because the parties had all analysed the nature of the problem we had to decide in the same way that it was agreed at the outset of the hearing before us that the central question we had to answer was this : in what capacity are High Court judges sitting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court in disciplinary cases ? |
| 7 | IT WAS N'T a record but that grand Heriot 's FP hooker of yesteryear , Bob Tollervey , who was 16 times reserve for Scotland without ever winning a cap , could be excused for feeling that he was born at the wrong time . |
| 8 | On entering the dining room , Hope had manoeuvred himself next to Miss D'Arcy and given her to understand that he was overwhelmed at the self-control of her behaviour in the face of such insensitivity as that displayed by the over-enthusiastic Mrs Crump who , nevertheless and for the sake of harmony , had to be tolerated — if not forgiven . |
| 9 | Indeed , it is the purpose of this article to suggest that what was alleged at the outset to be the general principle , that of self-determination , is in fact the exception . |