Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would hate to find myself part of any anti-Diana conspiracy , but it did cross my mind that some of her critics were right when they claimed that she deliberately sought to dominate family photographs . |
| 2 | ‘ But you were right when you insisted that I must give myself the opportunity to learn my true feelings , although … ’ |
| 3 | Hopes were high because it seemed that Britain might be prepared to modify its position : note had been taken of a speech made by Bevin in the House of Commons on 22 January 1948 when he commented that the idea of unity was undisputable and that ‘ the time is ripe for a consolidation of Western Europe ’ . |
| 4 | Darwin 's critics were wrong when they said that all my offspring would inherit half of it . |
| 5 | When Spurgeon opened Pastor 's College in 1856 some of the first pupils were illiterate but he insisted that his aim was to equip ‘ a class of ministers who will not aim at lofty scholarship , but at the winning of souls — men of the people ’ . |
| 6 | Knee and hip joints were creaking and it seemed that the prophecy made by doctors forty years before , that one day my legs and hips — the war left me with a short , stiff left leg — would really begin to seize up , was about to come true . |
| 7 | As they watched the towering ships sail forth his advisors were dismayed because they feared that the despatch of such a force would leave Ulthuan almost defenceless . |
| 8 | When the company began to embody computers in its products , the engineers responsible were dismayed when they found that a 50 per cent overhead on the purchase price of the hardware had been charged by the estimators . |
| 9 | When the company began to embody computers in its products , the engineers responsible were dismayed when they found that a 50 per cent overhead on the purchase price of the hardware had been charged by the estimators . |
| 10 | The latter 's delight and enthusiasm were such that he insisted that Nicholas should be sent to study at Oxford University and maintained there at the royal charge ; but a month later the youth died , on his twentieth birthday . |
| 11 | The British administrators were patient because they knew that the whole of the Masai respect for them lay in |
| 12 | You were glad when someone suggested that the butter or the jam should be cut up into rations even though you did see the hard selfishness in his eyes as he said it and felt sick because you knew that normally he was neither hard nor selfish . |
| 13 | I wanted to go across to the hill and search for him , but we were tired and I remembered that Sir Henry might be in danger . |
| 14 | The German co-producers were shocked when they found that the contract for Melancholia gave this right to the BFI , since in Germany final cut is almost always given to the director . |
| 15 | The Lancashire members were furious when they heard that Gooch and the other England selectors had axed Red Rose favourite Phil DeFreitas , preferring Essex pacemen Neil Foster and Mark Ilott . |
| 16 | Penzias and Wilson were worried when they found that their detector was picking up more noise than it ought to . |
| 17 | They were astonished when they found that he was a lad of no more than seventeen . |
| 18 | The moment was complete when I realised that the action had also cured my arthritis and that I had n't needed the strategically-placed piece of double-sided sticky tape . |
| 19 | The prophet was right when he said that without a vision the people perish . |
| 20 | I do not want to rely on quotations from Nye Bevan , but he was right when he said that we were a country built on coal . |
| 21 | I begin to think , though , that Robert Sheldrake was right when he said that the farm work — and in their case they 'll probably get plenty — would be their bread and butter , and the small animals their jam . |
| 22 | Nature may be beautiful but there is little doubt that Darwin was right when he observed that only the fittest survive . |
| 23 | If Darwin was right when he argued that there is no fundamental discontinuity between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties , and we accept , as surely we must , the general validity of the Darwinian theory of evolution and the connectedness of species , then where does morality come in ? |
| 24 | Is it that Einstein was right when he suggested that quantum mechanics was simply a mathematically-convenient calculational device , which masks a deeper theory based on locality in space time ? |
| 25 | This was odd as it indicated that the winter flock had already scattered as separate pairs at this very early date . |
| 26 | The zoologist was upset because she felt that the small animal had suffered from the journey in the box and she was responsible for its death . |
| 27 | Maureen was upset when she heard that his leave was postponed but the rest of the family thought it better for their mother that she still had Joe 's leave to look forward to , so Maureen said nothing . |
| 28 | ‘ I was speechless when I heard that I had won , ’ he said . |
| 29 | There was only one peg that was ice-free and I predicted that if anything was caught at all that peg would be the last to produce . |
| 30 | I asked if it was foreign and she said that it was . ’ |