Example sentences of "[vb infin] [was/were] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What startled spectator did not know was that a chiropractor on the Olympic Staff had given him a spinal adjustment immediately after the accident . |
| 2 | What I did n't know was that a few months before we started to work together she had written a proposal to the Thai government to start a ‘ machine knitting project ’ in one of her districts . |
| 3 | What that smarmy jock did not know was that a cousin of Proby , who is in insurance , had insured the grandstand disguised as a car — third party fire and theft . |
| 4 | What they did not know was that the examination of the diamonds had finished before midnight to the complete satisfaction of Zack and his accomplices . |
| 5 | What he did n't know was that the local authorities were taking a very different line . |
| 6 | What the ‘ teacher ’ volunteer did not know was that the whole experiment was a set-up and that the ‘ learner ’ was in fact a co-worker of Milgram 's . |
| 7 | What he did n't know was that the secret military satellite launched on the Columbia space shuttle in the summer of 1989 also had the capability of following the Citation . |
| 8 | What he did n't know was that the captives had already been moved over two thousand miles to the east . |
| 9 | What he did not know was that the Government , by the next day , would be anxious to retreat from the formula , and that the miners ' executive , having dispersed itself from London , would give them all day in which to do so . |
| 10 | ‘ What I did n't know was that the man was an insomniac . |
| 11 | What Hamilton could see was that the talents of Warner Bros had combined to produce a film that was not so much about the Legion as ‘ about the kind of short-sighted , uninformed and well-enough-meaning men who have to be given an understanding of what democracy really is so that they will not go on and on providing tools for such legions ’ . |
| 12 | What Branson did not envisage was that the dissenting faction of the Time Out staff would leave to produce their own magazine , City Limits , run on the cooperative principles eschewed by Tony Elliott ; and that Time Out would return to the streets largely shorn of its radical bent — in fact , very much the magazine Branson wished Event to be . |
| 13 | What they did not realize was that the express train had a restaurant car and the slow train did not . |
| 14 | What he did not realize was that the same combination of forces could be used against the monarchy . |
| 15 | What did happen was that the nursery staff felt themselves to be part of a wider childcare system and took advantage of formal and informal links . |
| 16 | What it did mean was that the presence of the killer pack effectively cut off that particular escape route if it were needed . |
| 17 | What they did n't realise was that the places being offered were in the reception class — designed for children of five and over — not a nursery class . |
| 18 | Given these competing interests , the best he could propose was that the two governments should try to come to a prior understanding concerning each other 's needs and thereby avoid the formal commitments which the US Joint Chiefs feared might paralyse American forces at the start of hostilities . |
| 19 | But what their 1–1 draw at Olympia Leisure Centre yesterday did signify was that the champions reign throughout that period is finally drawing to an end . |
| 20 | The only gleam of hope the Prime Minister could offer was that the Cabinet had on the previous day agreed to ask the Bank of England whether an increase of cuts from 56 million to 76 million , including a ten per cent cut in unemployment benefits , would be enough to ensure an American loan . |
| 21 | If she was seriously letting herself fall for this man 's serpentine charm , then all she could think was that the glandular fever had affected her brain cells as well as her blood cells . |
| 22 | All he would say was that the paper would be completely new , but would hark back to the great days of the Mirror . |
| 23 | What he did not say was that the " future General " might have quite distinct ideas of her own on the subject . |
| 24 | The only thing that I did find was that the , getting to grips with the issues er th was certainly as difficult , possibly more difficult , than I realized . |