Example sentences of "was [adj] [conj] he [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prophet was right when he said that without a vision the people perish . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nature may be beautiful but there is little doubt that Darwin was right when he observed that only the fittest survive . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | The spokesman , Rafi Horowitz , was wrong when he said that Palestinians could not claim their lands because they were citizens of a country at war with Israel . |
| 8 | For a moment Nutty was afraid that he knew that Hoomey had given his secret away ; but he was not apathetic anymore . |
| 9 | Christina gave up and was relieved when he announced that he was going to bed . |
| 10 | His resolve to live was great but he thought that his strength could fail him . |
| 11 | It was unlikely that he thought that he would be beaten . |
| 12 | For I could tell that he was a little rusty , and I wondered if sometimes this affable and agreeable companion was worried because he knew that he was not keeping up with the strides that modern medicine was taking . |
| 13 | Mr Davies was ecstatic when he heard that he had won the car in the special Peugeot Golf Monthly prize draw . |
| 14 | No doubt George Dempster was correct when he wrote that ‘ the true spirit of our constitution ought to make it criminal in a member of Parliament to offer any constituent the smallest personal favour ’ , but such an opinion was at variance with the facts of eighteenth and early nineteenth-century life . |
| 15 | He recalled that he was overjoyed when he heard that Walter Luff was staying on until 1954 , thus providing him with the chance that he needed . |