Example sentences of "[is] that they [was/were] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their case is that they were effectively forced to er complete unwillingly without the or the finance to make a go of the business and they suffered the losses which are claimed er set out in heading form initially on page sixty two of the pleadings bundle in further and better particulars . |
| 2 | The truth is that they were n't built as embankments , but the drained marshes have shrunk , while the ballasted railway has retained its original dimensions . |
| 3 | ‘ My own guess is that they were mostly using guitars made over in Hawaii . |
| 4 | The common factor in all these cases is that they were not discovered by MI5 . |
| 5 | The only problem is that they were not introduced soon enough . |
| 6 | One reason for the Surrealists ' relatively slow climb since 1975 is that they were highly valued then . |
| 7 | The tragedy of clients ' huge losses is that they were sometimes led to believe they would make fortunes on the above stocks within a month or two , maybe within three or four weeks . |
| 8 | We know from records of royal instructions that these regulations were made : what the evidence of extant coins proves is that they were actually carried out . |