Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] that [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I am right to claim that I was the first to adopt this plan vs Rudi Douven at Charlton in 1983 . |
| 2 | But then , Bella 's home-help came out of the bungalow and it was no use any more trying to pretend that it was n't happening … . |
| 3 | Back at his home near Florence he completed his book on hydrostatics , in which it is interesting to see that he was nonplussed by the fact that a thin flake of ebony , though denser than water would nevertheless float . |
| 4 | It was no doubt less advanced in its industrial organisation than Lancashire , where the last of the surviving handloom weavers were absorbed into other employment in the 1850s , but it would be unrealistic to claim that it was not industrial . |
| 5 | There are already , within any company , enough people with egg on their faces who will argue that one more mighty heave will get us there , but it takes , I think , more courage to be prepared to acknowledge that we were wrong in the first place . |
| 6 | BCRS members of all people will understand something of the geography and communications of the area , and will , I am sure , be interested to know that it was to the Stone House that our Secretary was taken after his recent heart attack . ) |
| 7 | The Tories in general were more isolationist than the Whigs , although it would be wrong to suggest that they were not sympathetic to the desire to contain France after 1689 . |
| 8 | Nor is it sensible to wish that it were otherwise , since raptures , aesthetic , erotic , intellectual , mystical , in which the spontaneous floods the whole of consciousness , can lift us to heights of awareness beyond our ordinary capacities . |
| 9 | The reputation of the new drugs had preceded them and a ripple of optimism ran through the sanatorium , though Doctor Staples had been careful to stress that they were still in the experimental stage . |
| 10 | ‘ I was prepared to believe that he was genuinely fond of her , although I do n't think many of the others at the Centre would have agreed with me . |
| 11 | Whether or not that was the intent of the regulations — and I am willing to believe that it was not the Minister 's intent — that has been the net effect of the way in which the three-week period was cut off due to the way that the regulations were tabled . |
| 12 | But setting her misgivings about Tommaso himself aside , Caterina decided that she had been quite wrong to think that it was she who had caught his attention . |
| 13 | He found , for example , that one company was realising that the whaling situation had been allowed to become a terrible indictment of all those involved in the industry , the Governments concerned and the International Whaling Commission , but I am afraid to say that it was the attitudes of the other two companies that prevailed in Japan for the ensuing years . |
| 14 | I was miserable with cold , but although I was prepared to admit that I was miserable , I was n't prepared to admit that my misery had any connection with cold . |
| 15 | He was forty-six , quite short and not afraid to admit that he was overweight . |
| 16 | In fact , he was willing to admit that it was . |
| 17 | Says Charlotte , ‘ I 'm embarrassed to admit that it was an agony aunt who finally dispelled my end-of-teenage doldrums . |
| 18 | But I was delighted to see that it was in fact my hat . |
| 19 | A warm welcome was given to Cicely and everyone was delighted to see that she was making such excellent progress . |
| 20 | It was easy to see that he was clever and well read , but he was also boring . |
| 21 | It was easy to see that he was the Princess 's father : her likeness to him was astonishing , as more than one person commented . |
| 22 | It was easy to see that he was running for his job then . |
| 23 | on collecting my T-shirt and participants instructions a few days before the event , I was rather alarmed to discover that we were expected to meet at Alexander Stadium at 7.45 a.m. on the Sunday morning , a time that I did n't really know existed even before my maternity leave ! |
| 24 | Rather dubiously I put it to the Chairman and I was relieved to find that he was quite enthusiastic about the idea . |
| 25 | Even from the distance she could see Doreen clasping his arm while looking up into his face , and it was easy to guess that she was pleading to be moved into a chalet . |
| 26 | Tamar had been dismayed to discover that it was the custom , among the upper classes , to employ a wetnurse for babies . |
| 27 | On the third day , September 26th , I saw a sail , and was delighted to discover that it was an English ship , on its way home to England . |
| 28 | Was he being paranoid to imagine that she was looking at her fellow switchboard operators , rolling her eyes , one hand over the receiver , saying , ‘ It 's him ! |
| 29 | Her own hand tracing the ridge of his breastbone , she found it almost impossible to comprehend that she was lying here naked with a man she barely knew , and yet she was positively revelling in the feel of warm masculine flesh , the steady rise and fall of his chest . |
| 30 | It is easy to forget that it was here , millions of years ago , that our forebears first appeared . |