Example sentences of "[noun] that there was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The animosity that there was between them ? |
| 2 | It was Labour Ministers who told local authorities that there was to be ’ severe restraint in expenditure in the national interest . ’ |
| 3 | Later that afternoon , when she had finished her shopping and passed the shop a second time , she found the E had been changed to an A. Just as , when she informed her class of noisy fourteen-year-olds that there was to be ‘ no more of that ’ , there was no more . |
| 4 | I am satisfied that the evidence in this case did not entitle the judge to come to the conclusion that there was in fact a grave risk of an intolerable situation for the boy if his return were to be ordered . |
| 5 | It is perhaps ironic that , having changed my mind , I am now trying to convince other physicists that there was in fact no singularity at the beginning of the universe — as we shall see later , it can disappear once quantum effects are taken into account . |
| 6 | And all I ken was that we got word that there was to be a school trip and that we were leaving I forget what tie in the morning , and going down to see the German ships . |
| 7 | Having been brought up as patriots , they were benumbed at the thought that there was to be a conflict between their country and all the beliefs that they held dear . |
| 8 | ‘ When , in answer to his assumption that there was to be an early wedding , I asked what was going round the grapevine now , he told me it was pure speculation on his part , stemming from the fact that you 'd just handed in your resignation . ’ |
| 9 | The 1901 President of the National Free Church Council was only pointing to the obvious when he told his audience that there was throughout the country and Empire ‘ an irresistible movement towards co-operation , combination , collectivism , solidarity , centralisation … |
| 10 | Indeed , as one account put it , ‘ The Incas ruled their people in such a way that there was among them neither a thief nor a vicious man nor a sluggard nor an adulterous woman … |
| 11 | It appeared during the discussion that there was in fact no such document in Miss Tucker 's lawyers ' possession at all . |
| 12 | Knox , when he wrote his History of the Reformation in the 1560s , looked back to the time when ‘ all men esteemed the Governor to have been the most fervent Protestant that there was in all Europe ’ , so that although ‘ The Papists raged against the Governor ’ , his fame ‘ was spread in divers countries ’ . |
| 13 | And he talks of the , and plainly in that erm sort of mystical experience that he had with the Whiteheads , he did in , as it were , come to realize for the first time that there was in himself this desire to lead a life erm inspired by love and guided by knowledge , and to see others leading it . |
| 14 | As an example of the pitfalls involved in drafting questions , we can consider the fuss that there was in 1983 when Hill announced that he had found that as many as 40 per cent of six-year-old children had seen ‘ video-nasties ’ ( i.e. video films of horror , violence , and sadistic sex ) . |