Example sentences of "that it [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The popularity of Wade 's sculpture was probably due not only to the fact that it was always comprehensible but that it was both ennobling and restrained in equal measure . |
| 2 | A broader assessment of fiscal policy has concluded that it was positively destabilising but , as has been suggested above , this was probably of marginal significance [ Dow , 1964 ; Blackaby , 1978 ] . |
| 3 | This led to Unionist accusations that the SDLP was boycotting the process ; however , the Ulster Unionist Party announced on May 29 that it was also withdrawing until Brooke cleared up the procedural issues . |
| 4 | Ernie was built in the strong mould of the traditional full-back of the time , but he was cool under pressure and had a keen eye for a volleyed clearance to avert any threatening danger , so that it was entirely fitting when the Football League honoured him with a place in one of their representative sides in the autumn of 1921 . |
| 5 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |