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Example sentences of "[adj] that [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	In my compartment two Frenchmen and a Spaniard were losing their pay to a tiny Glaswegian who excelled at poker ; he had already won most of the hands and was trying to explain in broad Scottish that he was open to credit arrangements .
2	The " consultations " failed , prompting all the main political groups in Kuwait to form a joint delegation which informed Shaikh Saad on March 30 that it was not prepared to join a new government before a timetable for political reform had been established .
3	The United States government announced on July 30 that it was to scale down or close 79 of its defence bases in Europe , following its January 1991 decision to halve its military presence in Europe .
4	The Bundesbank announced on Aug. 30 that it was to honour some DM250,000,000 of outstanding interest payments which were still due on a debt agreement reached in 1953 with its Western creditors .
5	The German government , citing cost and changed security needs following the end of the Cold War , confirmed on June 30 that it was to withdraw from the multinational European Fighter Aircraft ( EFA ) project .
6	The UN had announced on Sept. 30 that it was suspending its humanitarian operations in southern Sudan .
7	The rebel Movement for Democracy and Development ( MDD ) announced on Oct. 30 that it was repudiating reconciliation agreements which it had signed with the government in Libreville , Gabon , on June 24 [ see pp. 38952 ; 39132 ] .
8	Bush said on Nov. 30 that he was prepared to go " the extra mile for peace " , proposing that Iraq 's Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz should visit Washington for talks with him in mid-December and that this be followed by Baker visiting Baghdad .
9	It was just after this that I was privileged to be able to visit the British Museum and by the courtesy of Mr Rex Barker , son-in-law of the landlord of the Five Bells , Mr McCaffery , I was able to view and handle the remains of our oldest inhabitant .
10	It is this that I was hinting at in the previous chapter , when I referred to the queen ant as the central data bank .
11	Oh yes you told me this that I was doing hard labour and he said I was building the building .
12	It is clear from this that it was social and not technical factors which were responsible for the emergence of factory production .
13	But whereas they concluded from this that it was desirable to devise institutional checks on the will of the majority , Rousseau accepted the principle of majority decisions but tried to envisage conditions under which the majority would truly represent the community as a whole and not simply a collection of group or individual interests .
14	Wayne was so taken aback by this that it was a moment before he realised something else ; the hand that had touched the box had come away wet .
15	In Technograph Printed Circuits Ltd. v Mills & Rockley ( Electronics ) Ltd. [ 1969 ] , a case involving a patent for a method of making printed circuits , Harman J. said : It was objected that in fact it was not until ten years after the invention was published that it was commercially adopted … and it was argued from this that it was not a case of filling a long felt want .
16	Her judgement of Alan Jones was both admiring and shrewd , and he asked about her own education , becoming aware that at least four other men were listening with great interest and that Catherine Crane was so used to this that she was unconscious of it .
17	Add to this that she was a vain woman with a streak of snobbery , but one who had made a friend of Alice Fernie ( who herself was unlikely to pick her friends haphazardly ) ; that she was a man-hunting , high-life-loving girl who had shown no desire to keep up her connection with her old stamping-grounds ; and finally , that she apparently received obscene letters with equanimity , merely folding them up and putting them away like love-letters sentimentally preserved ; add all these things together and you had a woman who was as incomprehensible as women traditionally are .
18	It is for this that he was so praised by the right for his managerial qualities .
19	The meeting broke up with mixed feelings , but after a few days it became clear that we were in business .
20	Our terms of reference made it clear that we were to concern ourselves with the English curriculum for all pupils , whatever their mother tongue .
21	It was clear that we were about to interview a corporate treasure .
22	Harrison did n't exactly avoid us , but he made it clear that we were not to hang around his neck .
23	That was one of the reasons why , when we set up Headline , I called myself sales and publicity director , as opposed to marketing director , because I wanted to make it perfectly clear that we were a combined department .
24	‘ It is clear that we were able to demonstrate to the ministry that we are able to do the work and give value for money .
25	Yes , he said , we are , making it clear that they were joint social secretaries .
26	They agreed , although they made it clear that they were not prepared to involve William or Harry in the exercise .
27	Then her mother would graciously conduct half an hour of polite conversation with all these people , who Jo knew were otherwise pretty cool and mostly also pretty sane , and they would all pretend to be interested in whatever dumb thing she said , and laugh if she made any of her awful little jokes and store away any personal information she disclosed so that they could tell it to their friends the next day and make it absolutely clear that they were on intimate terms with a really big star .
28	It was clear that they were in a trap but still they went on until they reached a roadside filling station and café .
29	Soon after speaking to McMahon and Murphy , it became clear that they were as bewildered and anxious as I was .
30	First , they used variable and often vague definitions of abuse , so that in many cases it was not clear that they were dealing with established cases of abuse .