Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pron] [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He realized that their loyalty was the firmest basis of his own personal power , that he needed them as they needed him . |
| 2 | The world number nine agreed that his success was the ideal Wimbledon tonic , noting : ‘ What could be better than winning the tournament ? |
| 3 | IN 1826 , Richard Newcomb , the proprietor of the Stamford Mercury , announced that his newspaper was the earliest provincial paper ever' published in Britain . |
| 4 | In August 1985 the Supreme Council of the Afghan mujahidin Alliance , based in Peshawar , reiterated that its goal was the establishment of an independent Islamic state and declared that no power had the right to impose a political solution or a leadership on Afghanistan that did not satisfy the resistance fronts . |
| 5 | Richardson stated that her aim was the reduction of public expenditure from its current level of 41.7 per cent of GNP to the 1970 level of 30 per cent by the end of the decade . |
| 6 | Does n't it recall the time when the church taught that our Earth was the centre of the universe , and the stars just little pinpricks of light set in the sky for our delight ( or , even more absurdly presumptuous , that the stars go out of their way to exert astrological influences on our little lives ) ? |
| 7 | Scholte changed his tune when he heard that his customer was the son of a clergyman in Nuenen . |
| 8 | However , in a passage which attracted favourable comment in Baghdad for its unaggressive tone , Mitterrand stressed that his logic was the logic of peace , and that " everything would become possible " if Iraq released foreign hostages and confirmed an intention to withdraw its troops . |
| 9 | She knew that Richard came from the castle and understood that his family was the family to which all the others deferred , but now instead of intimidating her Richard 's status seemed to impart a sense of protection . |
| 10 | I never thought that her uncle was the American ambassador ! |
| 11 | I thought that my five-timer was the last time I would be up here . ’ |
| 12 | If , at any point , I thought that his solicitude was the sort of tender kindness you might show to someone utterly dependent and helpless — a prisoner or a caged bird — I was ashamed at once and re-doubled my efforts to be a good wife , asking Nonni to teach me how to cook the elaborate dishes Richard liked , and taking care to change my dress before he came home in the evening . |
| 13 | There were also forms of Judaism which the Jews themselves refused to acknowledge as such — the schismatic religion of the Samaritans , for instance , who insisted that their Judaism was the only true form . |
| 14 | And they all insisted that their recipe was the definitive version . |
| 15 | From a very young age I learned that my duty was the single most important factor in my life and that everything I did must be dedicated to it . |
| 16 | But then both you and RIPPOE said that her mother was the same and always arrived late and so on for everything , so perhaps it is genetic ! |
| 17 | Albert cut it out , snipping around the paragraph that said that her husband was the buyer in the men 's sports-clothes department of the same store , and pinned up the clipping in his room . |