Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now when you moved to was that a kind different kind of work obviously you were doing a wee bit more variety . |
| 2 | And so it came to be that the bewitching gesture of her father 's secretary walking down the golden path ( which bewitched me when I saw the woman in the swimsuit take leave of the lifeguard ) had completely gone to sleep in her . |
| 3 | it it came to be that it was the older men usually that were asked to do it I mean the people I suppose maybe felt it was more suitable to have older folk coming in to their houses . |
| 4 | The rights and wrongs of it were debated for some time and the feeling seemed to be that the TCCB had come out of it in a worse light than Gatting ; as the Melbourne newspaper The Age put it , ‘ Gatting , caught rumour , bowled hypocrisy , 0 ’ . |
| 5 | The general view seemed to be that the important thing was to get the economic and social base right and the language would look after itself . |
| 6 | The reason for the difference seemed to be that the DHSS paid for nursing home treatment in a number of instances : ‘ They took the pension and attendance allowance and the DHSS paid the rest . ’ |
| 7 | The typical operation seemed to be that the man took a lump of metal from a bin , thrust it into the machine , closed some kind of safety cage , and pulled a lever . |
| 8 | The implication drawn seemed to be that these two groups were irrevocably separated the practical men being for ever excluded from the highest mystical experiences . |
| 9 | The assumption seemed to be that through some mechanism or other , the additional allocation of relatively small sums to be used for capital projects would moderate the problems of the inner-urban areas . |
| 10 | Ruckelshaus is a marked contrast to Burford and her political mentor , the Interior Secretary James Watt , whose attitude often seemed to be that the environment was over-protected . |
| 11 | The ad-man opposite had been casting meaningful glances at her all evening , and the likeliest explanation seemed to be that she and Roger were doing a number together and I 'd inadvertently got caught in the crossfire . |
| 12 | Their crime seemed to be that they had sung the song ‘ Hernando 's Hideaway ’ too loudly . |
| 13 | No one in Parliament objected : the assumption seemed to be that this was what a publicly owned radio service ought to do . |
| 14 | The only possible explanation of this radiation , which corresponds to a temperature of about 3K ( 3 C° above the absolute zero of cold ) , seemed to be that it represented the residual energy left over from the Big Bang . |
| 15 | The message seemed to be that women who are raped are at fault for not having successfully avoided it . |
| 16 | For the entire working-class left the answer seemed to be that the tragedy of Austria would be replayed in Spain ; for the Republican left it was that the Republic would be constitutionally ‘ revised ’ out of existence . |
| 17 | The general consensus seemed to be that ‘ Yes , there is a problem but probably not so bad as some people have suggested . |
| 18 | Contrary advice came in from Nashville where the film was doing well and where the upshot seemed to be that ‘ the only way to sell Red Salute is as a gay romantic comedy ’ . |
| 19 | The public mood seemed to be that more organizations mean more bureaucracy , complexity and expense . |
| 20 | Their attitude , however , seemed to be that because I was young I was utterly unaware of what was happening to me , emotionally unstable , childish , and being forced into womanhood by a terrible mistake I had made . |
| 21 | The message to teachers seemed to be that they could be flexible in the prescribed way but not in their own . |
| 22 | The gist of this view seemed to be that if the book were ‘ good enough ’ , the girls would not notice . |
| 23 | The reason seemed to be that the improvements in sanitation and health in Europe and North America had occurred alongside general economic progress . |
| 24 | But the gist of it seemed to be that there should be an early , and preferably unpleasant , end to the miserable life of the blasphemer and pig-fancier , Wilson . |
| 25 | You know it seemed to be that we had a working rule that had functioned reasonably well over the years and all of a sudden he was tearing up various paragraphs that did n't suit him , and altering bits you know and changing them round just to suit the company , and all to our disadvantage . |
| 26 | The most obvious flaw seemed to be that ‘ objects ’ and ‘ desirable regions ’ were almost never visually primitive constructions and hence could not be recovered … without additional specialised knowledge . |
| 27 | When Mister presented a case for the Trust , the main point of the proposal seemed to be that the application is only being made to prevent being swallowed by the or Trust . |
| 28 | Because wh when , when we were looking at , at , at the I mean sort of things the implication to me seemed to be that , that this in itself is a successful policy , rent reduction , interest rate reduction methods improving er productivity , increasing input , in themselves are satisfying the demands of the peasantry and you would not need to go beyond that , I mean well did n't need to , he is n't the ideal , but he did n't need to go and he , he was doing very well out of it . |
| 29 | gentleman came to this house it seemed to be that he challenged the establishment and many of us welcomes that view it seemed to give a breath of fresh air , but now it seems to me that he 's become entirely institutionalised , can he explain that to the house ? |
| 30 | His problem seemed to be that he believed a Government could do exactly as it liked without taking public opinion into account . |