Example sentences of "[vb base] that it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's possible that some other minor eruptions occurred between 1681 and 1883 , but if they did , there is no record of them , and all of the reports and descriptions made by ships passing Krakatoa suggest that it was quite dormant . |
| 2 | REPORTS of America 's Davis Cup win over Switzerland suggest that it was the most repulsively nationalistic sporting event since the Hitler Olympics of l936 . |
| 3 | In a truly patronising vein , you suggest that it was technology , the offer of a shiny card with their photo , that attracted Cambodians to register as voters . |
| 4 | Rare coloured propaganda photographs suggest that it was of a warm mid-brown shade . |
| 5 | " Well , the River Police suggest that it was to weight the body enough to keep it under water , but not to sink it . |
| 6 | The 1377 poll-tax returns suggest that it was over three times the size of the largest provincial centres , Bristol and York , almost five times that of Coventry and six times that of Norwich ( 104 , p.1 ) . |
| 7 | The deferential tone , and the fact that it 's couched as a letter rather than as a minute , suggest that it was directed to someone outside the Civil Service . |
| 8 | 20 ) were seen , above , to be comparable at an integral level of stylistic affinity ; but the size and shaping of the tesserae in mosaic 7 , its large areas of background filling in buff-brown tesserae , and the absence of the most significant border decorations visible in mosaics B and C , suggest that it was the work of an essentially different group of craftsmen . |
| 9 | The direct and indirect statutory controls over the rules of the SIB and SROs and , in particular , the role of the Secretary of State suggest that it was contemplated that rules which survived their scrutiny would adequately protect investors . |
| 10 | I now realise that it was a bad decision on my part . |
| 11 | WE live at a time when reporters go to foreign countries where there is trouble and come back to write books in which they say that it was hard to make out what was going on . |
| 12 | Did not you hear Miss Rhymer say that it was poems , my dear ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ They say that it was a mistake that we had been told that the outbreak was due to Salmonella enteriditis , ’ she said . |
| 14 | Dot had heard Mrs Parvis say that it was a crying shame , a young fit man like that . |
| 15 | If they failed to reach agreement , the Queen would summon them and simply say that it was their business to ensure that the Queen 's government was carried on . |
| 16 | His notes say that it was in 1924 , but it must have been sooner , probably 1921 or 1922 , because he was back in South Africa in time to get married in 1923 . |
| 17 | The winter of nineteen forty was extremely bad , in fact most people say that it was the worst winter of the war . |
| 18 | To Pamela 's disappointment she say that it was still the same red paperback . |
| 19 | ‘ Our legends say that it was at the same time as the great Ebony Throne of Ireland . ’ |
| 20 | Although all felt that they had found a means of living which enabled them to be open to this reality , they nevertheless say that it was experienced as a gift and a grace beyond anything that could be achieved by conscious effort . |
| 21 | Did n't that did n't Mr say that it was really crap |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not really inclined to do a post-mortem on ‘ Provision ’ , other than to say that I acknowledge that it was less successful and less fun than the previous album , ’ he says in a most matter-of-fact voice . |
| 23 | On Jan. 29 the Iranian government denied claims made in the UK press that it was seeking to recruit nuclear scientists from the former Soviet Union . |
| 24 | He told a Labour Co-ordinating Committee rally that it was not enough for Labour to win the next election . |
| 25 | People forget that it was they who freed the country from Pol Pot , otherwise many more would have died than the one million who were starved , tortured , and executed between 1975-78 . |
| 26 | We pause on the stairs and although we left of our own accord , pulled our coat from under the couple entwined on the bed , we already sense that it was the wrong decision , that there was a hidden hand pushing us out , wanting to exclude us . |
| 27 | The critics and defeated rivals of Anca Petrescu in the competition for the Comrade 's patronage insist that it was her idea to resolve the question of the approach road to the Civic Centre by the most dramatic and destructive means . |
| 28 | Another Gothic design did win a prize , although it failed to satisfy The Saturday Review that it was a bona fide Gothic scheme . |
| 29 | We must be grateful to those who did visit the island and for ever regret that it was not included in Dr. Johnson 's itinerary . |
| 30 | We must be grateful to those who did visit the island and for ever regret that it was not included in Dr. Johnson 's itinerary . |