Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The critical hypotheses to be tested in our study were rather that there are no differences between groups than that there are differences . |
| 2 | We sought to find out what these were so that we could consider the points raised and respond to them . |
| 3 | It was declared the best policy was for the ‘ sent down ’ youth to remain where they were so that they could make their valuable contribution to the motherland on the ‘ agricultural front ’ , as in previous decades . |
| 4 | Firstly , nobody , but nobody would want to levy charges until it was a last resort , but if the alternative to levying those charges were perhaps that we had to cut the staffing levels in those adult training centres , then you get a different answer to the question , and I had a meeting about four weeks ago with the heads of some of our centres who 've been asking parents and carers that question . |
| 5 | No , well I mean , it were n't as though I had n't put a payment in it were just that it probably was this taking Tracey 's book and I marked it onto Tracey 's , er , Tracey 's book . |
| 6 | ‘ If it were simply that it would hardly be convincing , would it ? ’ |
| 7 | We are multiplication work and there is n't should be tackled and we were very that we can not do this without and therefore we accept the grant grant fifty thousand in these four counties planning service which I would say servicing . |
| 8 | Because of this she never had any time for her own parents : my mother could n't think it was right that they 'd parted with two of their children . ’ |
| 9 | My husband was right that nothing could exist on this planet . |
| 10 | It was right that she should make it suffer for what it had done . |
| 11 | If he needed to be questioned again it was right that it should be at home and with his parents present . |
| 12 | I told Kidsons that I did n't think it was right that I should seek re-election , which was coming up on 30 April , and left it at that . ’ |
| 13 | I thought that it was right that I should talk to you , try and build a better picture of Michael . ’ |
| 14 | So you won , Ragu , and in retrospect I think it was right that you did . |
| 15 | Coleridge rationalized the departure in his poem ‘ Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement ’ , asking whether it was right that he should live in beauty and solitude while his ‘ unnumber 'd brethren toil 'd and bled ’ in the greater world . |
| 16 | It was rarely that he felt such a direct clash between his twin roles as actor and detective . |
| 17 | It was enough that she had to work with him . |
| 18 | It was enough that he should have taken the trouble to visit her and offer his apologies . |
| 19 | It was enough that he should receive food and shelter most nights ; many of his family had not been so lucky . |
| 20 | I 've let you play your games , you and Joseph , and I 've said it was nothing to me , it was enough that I was a painter . |
| 21 | But I thought you were saying in answer to a question my was putting to you that one of the reasons for shouting armed police was so that everybody knows you 're armed police . |
| 22 | So give us some indication of what sort of press release it was so that we know what we 're talking about in the |
| 23 | Erm but one of the reasons that , that we got the audience was , was so that they , they obviously the audience were prepared to pay for the fact that |
| 24 | I suppose that it was filmed where it was so that she 'll be in it . |
| 25 | Explain at once to the speechreader what the mistake was so that he can share the joke , otherwise he may feel uncomfortable and puzzled by the reactions to his remark . |
| 26 | and the design of that was so that it will stay on , built in by design . |
| 27 | ‘ Another reason for setting up my workshop near here was so that I would n't lose touch with my mother . ’ |
| 28 | It was merely that he never wanted in a tournament round to risk anything which might upset his endlessly repetitive ritual and rhythm . |
| 29 | It was merely that she had learned from her life with him that , like many married women , she did n't really need a husband . |
| 30 | It was less that I was too proud , more that I was too embarrassed . |