Example sentences of "[noun prp] that this was a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a day after them the Panzer convoys took the same road , and some of the girls and women of Bazar with great daring threw flowers onto the mud-spattered armour of the Panther heavy tanks , and some of the men cheered and the headmaster of the secondary school said that evening in the café on Lenin Street that this was a moment of deliverance . |
| 2 | When he confirmed to Hankey that this was a ‘ command ’ , the latter replied ; ‘ Very well , Sire . |
| 3 | For Canon Lucas , sub-dean and father of the boys with the model railway , decided while Ramsey was the professor at Durham that this was a possible Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 4 | But she confided to Jean-Claude that this was a concession wrung from her to avoid argument : not something she had initiated , or enjoyed . |
| 5 | As a name Haagen-Dazs meant nothing but its vaguely Nordic connotations , specialist distribution policy and quirky packaging quickly convinced New Yorkers that this was a cult food worth adding to their repertoire . |
| 6 | He told the rector at Boston that this was a person of unusual spiritual powers ; that how to train him for the whole Church was a responsibility ; that he was anxious that these abilities should not be confined to academic spheres . |