Example sentences of "[was/were] that [pron] do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The terrifying thing was that they did n't speak . |
| 2 | ‘ The thing that surprised me most was that they did n't know how to make a quality tube at AISA and we showed them . ’ |
| 3 | The problem with many of the parents we interviewed of primary school children was that they did n't really know what their children were doing at school a lot of the time and , because they did n't know what they were doing , they sort of feared that it , they were n't doing anything or that what they were doing was not actual work , what they remembered as work . |
| 4 | The point he missed was that they did not tax because they did not need to tax ; he despised the Scottish crown for its failure to collect the infamous taille , but this had , after all , been introduced to France only because of the need to finance military expeditions . |
| 5 | Earlier workers failed ; one reason was that they did not have the technology to reach the necessary high temperatures and pressures . |
| 6 | We now know that the reason for this was that they did not dwell or traffic within the walls ; that Lundenwic like Hamwih lay outside , along the Strand or foreshore of the Thames . |
| 7 | Mr Whitney-Long 's evidence on this aspect was unsatisfactory : indeed the weight of his evidence in cross-examination was that they did not so rely in any material way but relied on other matters . |
| 8 | A problem was that they did not have the time to do this ; cells were being charged up and time was running out , every spare moment being needed for preparing and measuring active cells . |
| 9 | The problem last season was that they did not score enough goals . |
| 10 | One surprising aspect of the recall results was that they did not seem to be related to previous knowledge of the junctions , it had seemed possible that even simple junctions would be memorable if they had not been previously encountered . |
| 11 | The reason which they gave to me was that they did not believe that a man with my social background could win a General Election for the Conservative Party at that time in the twentieth century . |
| 12 | The most important common feature among them was that they did not have absolute rights over the land which they farmed , but that they were in some way dependent on a lord , who had a right to some part of their labour or their profits from the land . |
| 13 | Certainly when I was setting up my studio in the country , the nice thing was that we did n't do anything standard ; we did n't take anything for granted , whether it was mics , positions of drums or anything . |
| 14 | I denied it for a long time because I was so determined to make this marriage work , but the reality was that we did n't really care for each other any more , or at least somewhere among all the battles our love had been well and truly buried . |
| 15 | One of the difficulties was that we did n't have a clear and accurate measure of performance of the system . |
| 16 | The problem was that we did n't know why there had been such a dramatic improvement . |
| 17 | The problem which was supposed to bring liberal theory crashing to the ground was that we do not wish to justify interfering with adult liberties on these grounds . |
| 18 | The response was that we do not get involved in trying i in to get foreign administrations to try to tell them what decisions they should make . |
| 19 | What the group 's paper tried to suggest was that we do n't simply endure the existence of the private sector . |
| 20 | What I was interested in at , at the briefing er , for the Committee , was that we do n't actually go out and sell this in inverted commas , to other authorities , they come to us , because they 've heard it 's good practice . |
| 21 | There would be no more In Love redemption , thought Jay , in fact all she knew was that she did n't know what Love was . |
| 22 | The reason for this was that she did n't like Mr. Gordon . |
| 23 | What Karen did n't realize , in her moment of cheap triumph , was that she did n't either . |
| 24 | Ruth had totally forgotten the outing and her immediate feeling was that she did n't want to go . |
| 25 | Of course , the effect of all this was that she did n't like my children very much , and she had some justification for this . |
| 26 | The only thing you had to watch out was that she did n't start to stagger and put one of them feet down on you a bit sharp , or fell on you as she were a-swaying about with her jink-back . |
| 27 | The truth was that she did n't want Sam to be in love : not seriously in love with an older man , and the boy in the bistro was n't really a boy at all , being at least twenty-two . |
| 28 | And the worst part was that she did n't know how long she was going to have to stay here . |
| 29 | ‘ Heather 's problem was that she did n't feel she belonged , Mr Barnett . |
| 30 | Not that it mattered , she thought ; the truth was that she did n't give a damn about herself . |