Example sentences of "was that he [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Oct. 22 Mohorita was recalled by deputies from the Federal Assembly Presidium , although the reason cited was that he had breached protocol by chewing gum during a speech to the Assembly on Sept. 13 by France 's President Mitterrand . |
| 2 | The only reason he was here was that he had seen every other programme on locally . |
| 3 | He closed his eyes and tried with all the concentration of which he was capable to see with his mind exactly what it was that he had wanted to paint . |
| 4 | The story going around at the time was that he had ticked off the Lebanese bureau staff to the point where they sold him to Hezbollah for a bit of peace and quiet ! |
| 5 | Once again she wondered what it was that he had done in the war to make Anthony so angry . |
| 6 | What Peter did not realise was that he had aroused the directors ' suspicion . |
| 7 | Marcellus ' defence was that he had taught the ignorant to respect and wonder at the beautiful and marvellous works of Greece ( Marc . 21 ) . |
| 8 | Weinberger 's stated position was that he had disapproved of the entire operation . |
| 9 | The general verdict was that he had secured his leadership for years to come . |
| 10 | The answer was that he had flown out quite coincidentally to attend a wedding . |
| 11 | It was that he had made her betray herself . |
| 12 | What pleased him , he told me , was that he had made a slow but gradual improvement in his times over the three-day session and Joe Millar , his backer , was also delighted at the methodical , no-nonsense way in which Jeremy was approaching any problem he encountered . |
| 13 | But all that had really happened that evening , he thought , was that he had developed something that was very nearly envy of Dave Fernie . |
| 14 | Marx 's major claim for his own work was that he had discovered certain inexorable laws which operated in history and which were comparable in their workings to laws operating in the physical universe such as the law of gravity . |
| 15 | The crux of Sting 's accusation , however , was that he had suffered from ‘ inequality of bargaining power ’ which is to say , that he had not had proper legal advice when signing the deal , and had been taken advantage of by Virgin . |
| 16 | ‘ My obvious reaction was that he had gone to help her , ’ Mr Clarke , a community affairs officer who was travelling to police headquarters , said at Shrewsbury Crown Court . |
| 17 | The last they heard was that he had gone over the wall for two years . |
| 18 | The absurd fact was that he had married her for her gaiety . |
| 19 | He had felt the need , though , to take into account the super-sensitive relations between these two teams , and if the biggest surprise was that he had addressed gentle caution to the English management as well , they having been innocent , faraway onlookers during the shenanigans , it was because he recognised that they too nursed feelings of exasperation and he imagined that they might soon have burst uncontrollably into flames . |
| 20 | I think he was n't much of a horseman , perhaps had n't been in the regiment very long ; and the great achievement in his eyes was that he had managed to do that long and difficult gallop without falling off . |
| 21 | His greatest strength since his appointment was that he had steered clear of the Watergate scandal . |
| 22 | The difficulty was that he had started work on the poem before he had adequately prepared himself , although his haste was understandable . |
| 23 | It subsequently emerged that one reason for his decision was that he had taken into account the fact that publicity about the complaint would be politically damaging for the Government at that time . |
| 24 | Dicey described how , when ‘ Voltaire came to England — and Voltaire represented the feeling of his age — his predominant sentiment clearly was that he had passed out of the realm of despotism to a land where the laws might be harsh , but where men were ruled by law and not by caprice ’ ( Dicey , 1959 : 189–90 ) . |
| 25 | She wanted to thank him for his kindness , to tell him how grateful she was that he had offered to help but the words would not come . |
| 26 | During his subsequent trial , however , Poindexter 's central line of defence was that he had acted with the general authorization of the President . |
| 27 | The evidence was that he had worked in the UK for 40 weeks and in Italy for 50 weeks . |
| 28 | His story was that he had collapsed with exhaustion and thirst when a passing American schooner had seen his distress signals and taken him aboard . |
| 29 | The only reason Naylor had removed that hat was that he had ordered her to do it and , unused to not being obeyed , had taken it upon himself to remove it personally — no argument . |
| 30 | Hurtled The plan was for his main chute to open at 3,000ft but it did not open and he hurtled to conclusion of the association 's investigation was that he had failed to locate the ripcord handle . |