Example sentences of "[noun prp] that [det] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | It struck Madeleine that this was surely a waste of time . |
| 2 | It occurred to Matt that this was the third time in about twelve hours that a woman had done that . |
| 3 | The Committee was informed in May that this was happening , and in July it was approved . |
| 4 | After the second last Pitman sneaked another look behind him , and this telegraphed to Brian Fletcher that all was not lost . |
| 5 | And a day after them the Panzer convoys took the same road , and some of the girls and women of Bazar with great daring threw flowers onto the mud-spattered armour of the Panther heavy tanks , and some of the men cheered and the headmaster of the secondary school said that evening in the café on Lenin Street that this was a moment of deliverance . |
| 6 | It was suggested by Wickes that this was an appropriate case for a reference to the European Court of Justice on the issue raised by the decision of the Court of Appeal that Community law required an undertaking in damages . |
| 7 | Some instinct whispered to Jackson that this was important . |
| 8 | The only answer to this , that I can think of , is to take the engine number of your intended purchase and check with Land Rover that this was never a petrol engine . |
| 9 | But it would have taken more than me to convince Harold Wilson that this was so and that conspiracies were not afoot . |
| 10 | When he confirmed to Hankey that this was a ‘ command ’ , the latter replied ; ‘ Very well , Sire . |
| 11 | Gloucester18pts Bath27 THE sight of David Campese drifting across field from the far wing and cutting even the New Zealand defence to shreds in the World Cup persuaded Bath that this was an attacking move worth investigating . |
| 12 | Last night , back home with her 38-year-old husband , she said : ‘ I prayed to God that this was not the day I was going to die . |
| 13 | John told Anne that this was embarkation leave and he would soon be going to France but warned her not to mention it to anyone . |
| 14 | Would she tell Subhadra that this was all wrong ? |
| 15 | For Canon Lucas , sub-dean and father of the boys with the model railway , decided while Ramsey was the professor at Durham that this was a possible Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 16 | It is instantly evident to a visitor to Alford that this was once an elegant and thriving market town . |
| 17 | But she confided to Jean-Claude that this was a concession wrung from her to avoid argument : not something she had initiated , or enjoyed . |
| 18 | The fearsome riots that swept the inner cities in 1981 , in Brixton first , then Toxteth and Hansworth , Moss Side and Bristol , came as no surprise , and convinced Charles that this was the area where he could be of some use . |
| 19 | When Helen told Price Waterhouse that this was what she wanted to do , she thought they would say it was all or nothing and tell her to pack her bags . |
| 20 | As a name Haagen-Dazs meant nothing but its vaguely Nordic connotations , specialist distribution policy and quirky packaging quickly convinced New Yorkers that this was a cult food worth adding to their repertoire . |
| 21 | It was long after she had gone to sleep and he had prodded her in the ribs to stop her snoring and was , himself , lying awake , staring into the darkness , thinking about Donald that it occurred to Henry that this was the longest conversation he had had with Elinor for about a year and that , after a bad start , she had , once or twice , come dangerously near to amiability . |
| 22 | I informed Mr Fallon that this was incorrect . |
| 23 | A minion replied stiffly for the PMG that this was ‘ not considered desirable ’ . |
| 24 | He told the rector at Boston that this was a person of unusual spiritual powers ; that how to train him for the whole Church was a responsibility ; that he was anxious that these abilities should not be confined to academic spheres . |