Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [v-ing] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were rather like saying that French was less logical than Russian . |
| 2 | Such arguments were not simply suggesting that criminal statistics were ‘ biased ’ . |
| 3 | Physiologists were then increasingly agreeing that every cellular organism is either a single cell or a cell colony arising from the successive divisions of a single cell , and that two cells come together to form one at fertilization , each having arisen by the division of one cell in the respective parent body . |
| 4 | I thought it was just like Commentating that it had n't |
| 5 | Mr Franklin was yesterday again arguing that his valuation is fair . |
| 6 | As they skirted the smooth lawns on the way back to the car park Merrill dropped behind to walk with Sam who was now complacently asserting that all this exercise had given him an appetite for dinner . |
| 7 | It was n't straight acting that had captured her imagination , but rather the stage itself . |
| 8 | It was therefore entirely fitting that , in the celebrated Ealing comedy about the last age of steam , The Titfield Thunderbolt should be driven by the local vicar and fired by a visiting bishop . |