Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb past] [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her last waking thought had been that she was wrong , and that Ace had been right all the time . |
| 2 | It was indeed a failure of such imagery , but it must be remembered that the very image of society , and in some cases of socialism , the council estate embodied was that imposed by academics and professionals , and never that of the residents , who have neither a place in the construction of that image , nor the means for its appropriation . |
| 3 | ‘ It also made a lot of sense that part of the service Metaltronix offered was that I would go into the studio and tweak the gear while these guys were recording , and that 's what happened . |
| 4 | ‘ The whole Virgin approach had been that you simply do n't fire people . ’ |
| 5 | Or the jurors could have taken the path they did in fact elect , which was to go to the very heart of the matter and conclude that these officers were only doing what they have been trained to do and that all the famous video footage demonstrated was that they had indeed gone by the book . |
| 6 | A second approach Bush mentioned was that he would meet the 150 or so new House of Representatives members before they become captives of the leadership or the lobbyists . |
| 7 | The answer Bukharin gave was that there would be over-production of consumption goods , because there would be ‘ a disproportion between production and consumption . |
| 8 | During the first government of Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson , one of whose election slogans had been that he was going to introduce a white hot technological revolution , AEA was empowered by act of Parliament to undertaken R&D on non-nuclear topics . |
| 9 | The only point the press reports missed was that Jim Prior was so unhappy that he almost threw in his hand and resigned . |
| 10 | Another Southern Region service axed was that between Tunbridge Wells Central and Eridge which finished on 6 July 1985 . |