Example sentences of "[v-ing] [that] [pron] [adv] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we need to get our moral thinking clear on this matter all the more because in the first stages of unbridled conflict both sides seem to be suggesting that there really was no moral problem at all because the principle that they were obsessed with was the only one that mattered . |
| 2 | ‘ It must have been a shock , realising that she too was accountable for what she 'd done . ’ |
| 3 | Exuberantly believing that he alone was responsible for the separation and still moved by a powerfully purifying sense of goodness and rightness , Hope paid his modest bill the next morning , left a parting note for George , checked himself from asking to see Mary , promised — though he lied — to return and set off at a tremendous pace for Hause Point . |
| 4 | While preparing an early draft of the present chapter , the writer heard Bishop Cathal Daly of Down and Connor , a leading moderate among the bishops , respected by all except PIRA , repeat the adage that the Irish constitution was secular , implying that there really was little to be done for the moment . |
| 5 | Fabia counteracted any feeling of wretchedness at that last guilty thought by deciding that it really was n't good enough that Vendelin Gajdusek had gone away when he knew full well that someone was travelling especially from England to see him . |
| 6 | As he lay on the bed , he found himself wishing that it really was his grave . |
| 7 | He turned up at the dance studio in a pair of very skimpy tight shorts and observing that everyone else was very white and wore towelling track suits , and seeing that he was very tall and very naked , got nervous so went for a walk and smoked a joint . |
| 8 | From 1266 onwards he is regularly described as magister in official records , indicating that he too was recognized as a rabbi within the Jewish community . |
| 9 | And I take this opportunity to say that , erm , I had , I moved this at budget revue , and my intention was to move erm , pretty much the wording that Mr moved at property , but I was unable to obtain that wording by the time of the meeting , so I put this forward , erm , knowing that it obviously was different words , but but with that same sense , that we do have to address some very real issues about County Farms and not to pussyfoot about it I think that er , any comparison between the County Farms and a commercial enterprise is a coincidence of terms , but I ca n't see how we can have forty million pounds worth of estate , as it 's valued on the free market , to be making two hundred and ninety-one thousand pounds a year out of it , and think that that is commercial . |
| 10 | Circumstantial evidence could take the form of showing the defendant wished to cover up an offence committed by himself , such as driving over the prescribed limit , being involved in an accident and then , as mentioned ( C ) 2 ante alleging that someone else was driving at the time of the accident . |
| 11 | We have to show that your accident was caused by the negligence of another , which , broadly speaking , means showing that somebody else was at fault . |
| 12 | ‘ How do you propose to raise the money when for the past months you 've been claiming that it just was n't possible ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It is of course a hotch-potch of good and bad ’ said the Musical Times in 1930 , admitting that it also was nevertheless ‘ the hit of the season ’ . |
| 14 | Nice girl , bright head on her , but she kept thinking that everyone else was as passionate about things as she was . |
| 15 | The first ending to Bladerunner , cut because it was too depressing , had Harrison Ford 's detective discovering that he too was a replicant . |
| 16 | With relief Maggie finally left the hotel , realizing that it now was a most unsafe place to be . |