Example sentences of "[pron] was that there be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I attempted to tell you was that there is essentially no region that in respect of any land which lies within the general area of the statutorily approved greenbelt , its mere existence within the greenbelt must be taken to mean that it has a greenbelt function . |
| 2 | The leading one was that there were sufficient other able-bodied persons in the household to enable one of them to be freed for Soviet work . |
| 3 | There were two snags to the shoes : one was that there was no cushioning whatsoever for your feet , and the other was the dye . |
| 4 | You know where there was that there was the young girl and there was the old wo , oldish woman who was supposed to be a film star or something ? |
| 5 | What else he had failed to tell her was that there was a fortune at stake — and that the custodian of it was this Bluebeard , this marauding monster … who , even now , while she was going through the motions of hating him , was turning her body to liquid honey . |
| 6 | But in due course er when I was still off with flu , erm back to the specialist another test , you know , and that was er March , April of last year and the result of it was that there is something in there which is characteristic of what 's , what we call multiple sclerosis which seems to me is about as broad as it 's long , you know , it 's , it 's a very large |
| 7 | ‘ I was very impressed with the way he played , but then I realised how daunting it was that there were 20 or 30 guys on the Tour playing better than him , ’ he says . |
| 8 | The situation as we saw it was that there were no obvious leading firms er there were firms that had a particularly they were leaders in a particular niche markets for example 's being very aggressive , they were certainly nationally leading on insolvency and they were getting a lot of a lot of beneficial er publicity from that , locally we saw them er as erm th they were very good in the tax field and certainly in the consultancy field , having one of their major consultancy based in by the airport . |
| 9 | ( If the film had a serious weakness , it was that there was too much Naughty Little Sister stuff for Lilian in supermarkets and car parks . ) |
| 10 | What impressed me was that there was a perceptible interval between the explosion and the time at which Bernal ducked down into our shelter trench . |