Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | They intended to canoe the three miles to Charmouth but it was up to four hours after they were due to arrive that a huge rescue operation was mounted . |
| 2 | They were right to insist that documents should not be released to the court because , he said , that was what they had to do . |
| 3 | You were right , Nigel , to say that there are talented individuals not yet part of a team — and you were right to say that Western Samoa are a bit useful . |
| 4 | My hon. Friends and I were interested to note that the NATO summit declaration in London on 6 July 1990 called for the alliance to place more reliance on reserve forces , and the Government have emphasised the importance of part-time soldiers . |
| 5 | They were interested to discover that the fishermen were steering a direct course for Koepang , without such marvellous modern aids as charts , wireless , or navigational instruments ! |
| 6 | While there was very little dispute about the incompatibility of marriage with a career ( even at the end of the century only a very.few radical feminist theorists , such as Olive Schreiner , were prepared to argue that all adult women should be engaged in regular paid employment ) , the vote proved a much more contentious issue for feminists as well as non-feminists , because it required such a substantial redrawing of the boundaries between male and female spheres . |
| 7 | The Peace Ballot and the East Fulham by-election suggested a strong sentiment against war but few established politicians were prepared to argue that the rise of fascism made a future war probable . |
| 8 | Supporters of Bruce were prepared to testify that Alexander III had appointed Bruce of Annandale as his successor ; but Balliol 's backers and some less committed nobles and clerics , fearful of civil war , invited Edward I of England to come and arbitrate . |
| 9 | Never to volunteer for anything , for instance ; to keep her bedspace clean and tidy ; never , ever , to forget the eleventh commandment , Thou shall not get found out ; and if you were prepared to agree that every word of King 's Regulations was Holy Writ and accepted that leave was a privilege and not a right , then life in the Navy need n't be all that bad . |
| 10 | When it was put to them that they were taking jobs away from men , many working-class women were prepared to agree that this was " not fair " . |
| 11 | Even the most extreme partisans of absolute monarchy were prepared to admit that there were theoretical limits to the power of the king . |
| 12 | Now the audit industry was in favour of that at the time because it saw itself as able to get its fingers into local authority audit so they were prepared to accept that they could do it then , it 's only now er when it 's proposed on what 's been their traditional prerogatives , they er er they audit of banks and private sector er er companies that they balk at the proposition and say ooh it 's horrendous we ca n't do it . |
| 13 | In theory ( and in the long run ) liberals , such as J. S. Mill , were prepared to recognise that representative government based on the whole people was the best form of government since political participation would promote the virtue , intelligence and " development " of the people . |
| 14 | Moreover , trust in Hitler was not simply based upon an early end to the war , but on an early victorious conclusion , and all the indications are that before late 1942 and early 1943 — centring around Stalingrad , the North African reverses , and the mounting allied air supremacy — only a minority of Germans ( around a third of the population according to American surveys carried out in 1945 ) were prepared to concede that the war was lost . |
| 15 | A minority of Tories were prepared to concede that there could be exceptions to the theory of non-resistance in extremis , and in this they admittedly came close to the doctrine of some of the more conservative Whigs . |
| 16 | All were careful to insist that ‘ free love ’ was not to be confused with ‘ libertine sexual intercourse ’ , but that it involved a combination of the aesthetic and spiritual sides of the human personality , with a frank and open attitude towards sex . |
| 17 | Thus birth control groups during the inter-war period were careful to argue that the use of birth control would not necessarily lead to an increase in childlessness or very small families , but rather would result in better planned families and healthier mothers and children . |
| 18 | If we add to these the possibility that juries sometimes acquit notwithstanding convincing evidence of guilt , we have to accept that an acquittal does not indicate that the police were wrong to conclude that the accused was guilty . |
| 19 | Western powers were wrong to believe that tsarist troops in Poland were aimed at the heart of Europe , for they were needed where they were . |
| 20 | He added that the prison officers were wrong to think that the possible contracting out of some services within prisons could lead to privatisation of entire jails . |
| 21 | We might therefore expect these works to conform in some way to established taste , but it does not follow , as many of Wordsworth 's later disciples were prone to assume that anything in heroic couplets is necessarily bad ; in fact , many passages from these poems compare quite favourably with Wordsworth 's eighteenth-century predecessors . |
| 22 | These cases show that the courts in the early 19th century were willing to hold that the Inns , as private voluntary societies , had a power to refuse entry to would-be members which was not subject to the jurisdiction of the courts or the visitors , even though barristers of the Inns possessed certain monopoly rights in the courts . |
| 23 | Other women were willing to argue that if there was truth in Pope 's portraits of women , the cause of their failings was not , as he suggested , a weakness of nature . |
| 24 | The insurance men were willing to admit that the safe driver is subsidising those who have accidents . |
| 25 | Unlike their Mancunian rivals New Order , they were willing to prove that a sense of style was n't necessarily a barometer of blandness . |
| 26 | Erm , if we were willing to throw that into the pot , |
| 27 | At Yalta both Roosevelt and Churchill were willing to concede that Russia should have ‘ friendly ’ neighbours in eastern Europe . |
| 28 | We had gone to Uncle Charles for Christmas lunch and were sad to find that Aunt Edie Mann did not appear . |
| 29 | The weather was beautiful and those who were fortunate to know that his special was operating and were able to be somewhere along the route were fortunate to share a most attractive experience . |
| 30 | As one remarked at the time , those who were wondering what women 's golf was coming to were relieved to learn that the culprits were a King Charles spaniel and a mongrel she had encountered during the course of the early morning post round she does on the outskirts of Durham . |