Example sentences of "that it [was/were] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not enough for the defendant to show that he was aware of the contents of what he was distributing or publishing , but did not himself think that it was insulting if the jury or magistrate should come to the conclusion that he suspected or had grounds to suspect otherwise . |
| 2 | That feeling was strange , she resisted it , she knew that it was absurd as well as amoral , but in the end she told herself that she could not command her feelings : she was no longer able to torment herself with thoughts of their wars nor to enjoy their celebrations , because she was filled with the conviction that none of it was her concern . |
| 3 | I wanted to tell him calmly that I knew perfectly well that it was absurd and quite understood the point of his questions . |
| 4 | When I came to the Cotswolds and looked for a studio , before I even looked for house , I found a great barn , a wonderful old building , except that it was cathedral-like and freezing cold in the winter . |
| 5 | The boat house resembled a small chapel built into the sloping land that led down to the water 's edge , except that it was windowless and the bell in the tower no longer rang . |
| 6 | He said that it was strange that so few were facing charges after the widespread upheaval of 1989 . |
| 7 | The pope laid special and dramatic emphasis on the second of these anathemas , saying that it was intolerable that hands which touched the flesh of Christ in the Eucharist , should suffer the indignity and contamination of being subordinated to hands made bloody by daily violence and bloodshed . |
| 8 | Geoff Keerie , assistant city environmental health officer , said the council was disappointed with the result of the appeal , but that it was content that the threat of a serious risk to public health had been removed . |
| 9 | John assured me that it was easy and I watched , amazed , as his hands turned the pieces to assemble it again . |
| 10 | But they do not prove that NICRA was a front for the preparation of such a campaign or that it was reasonable or wise to treat it as such . |
| 11 | The San Jose Mercury News , which reported the story , citing documents filed this month with the US Securities & Exchange Commission , noted that it was unclear whether the settlement was triggered by an existing employment agreement or was offered by Santa Cruz in an attempt to get the case out of the way so the stock offering could be pursued without controversy . |
| 12 | The San Jose Mercury News , which reported the story last week citing documents filed this month with the US Securities and Exchange Commission , noted that it was unclear whether the settlement was triggered by an existing employment agreement or was offered by SCO in an attempt to get the case out of the way so the stock offering could be pursued without controversy . |
| 13 | Badger gassing , the infallible and humane method of killing them recommended by Lord Zuckerman was stopped on the grounds that it was fallible and inhumane . |
| 14 | It was not so ridiculously bizarre that it was unwearable but it was bad enough . |
| 15 | He told Daniel about the terrible St Rémy painting of the blasted tree , about noir-rouge , and Daniel said that it was odd that these orchards should be all over the walls of other asylums now , to cheer people up . |
| 16 | She thought that it was odd that she should be so certain of Beuno 's allegiance with her against one of his countrymen , but she had no doubts of him . |
| 17 | In fact , the next paper I sent him was called , if I remember rightly , ‘ The Poet — the Public — the Faith ’ , and I had dispatched it to a review called The Green Quarterly , the only recollection of which I have is that it was quarterly and that it was green . |
| 18 | Leavisism assumed that its rewriting of the canon had a once-and-for-all quality , so that it was inconceivable that anyone could come to admire Shelley again , though this is precisely what has happened under the influence of Harold Bloom , who is dedicated to overturning the Eliot-Leavis version of poetic history . |
| 19 | It was as if someone had asserted that it was inconceivable that a mammal should lay an egg and then a duck-billed platypus had turned up . |
| 20 | I thought that Robert had covered his tracks well and then that it was inconceivable that Lili , who knew everything , should n't have known all that her husband did . |
| 21 | Then suddenly a demoniacal light had entered his eyes and , since he seemed to be a man who would set about proving his own theories — in this case that it was inconceivable that she should be as innocent as she would appear — he took a couple of steps forward and reached for her . |
| 22 | For example , it could well have been that families of cave dwellers came to realise that it was possible that they could agree to respect the privacy and boundaries of their respective homes , and by so doing relieve themselves of the eternal vigilance likely to be necessary in the absence of such agreement . |
| 23 | On March 28 an Interior Ministry spokesperson said that it was possible that former Communist leader Todor Zhivkov himself might be implicated in the crimes committed in the camps . |
| 24 | Mr Justice Stegmann , who sentenced her in May , said that it was possible that another court might reach a different verdict . |
| 25 | David Dorn , a nuclear physicist working for the Commission , was quoted in New York on Jan. 15 as saying that it was possible that Iraq possessed enough components for up to 10,000 gas centrifuges . |
| 26 | They noted , however , that it was possible that excessive protectiveness could result from having an abnormal child rather than the reverse . |
| 27 | They concluded , however , that it was possible that social networks have a modest association with mental health even though they offer little protection against acute stress . |
| 28 | I was told early on that it was possible that your Royal Highness would be able to be there and indeed you were and it gave us all one of the most unforgettable nights . |
| 29 | Commander Genda went through the plans in detail over the next ten days and came to the conclusion that it was possible and , although hazardous , had a reasonable chance of success . |
| 30 | The secretary-general of the Democratic Union , Piotr Nowina-Konopka , criticized the decision , saying that it was unacceptable that one twin should be responsible for defence and national security while the other , as head of Walesa 's presidential office , was advocating the dissolution of parliament and wanted to organize public pressure to this end . |