Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] that it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Berg was successfully to allege that it was fraudulently misled , it must show that some natural person connected with it had been misled , and Berg could not do this . |
| 2 | I was not sensitive enough to realize that it was all my fault , and that if I had n't considered him common , he would n't have been so clumsy . |
| 3 | Furious , he got up to complain to his neighbour , only to discover that it was his own dog which he had accidently shut outside before going to bed . |
| 4 | It has taken five years to get this one right and the Government will not want to repeat the mistakes of the mid-1980s when Nigel Lawson thought he had beaten inflation , only to discover that it was just sleeping . |
| 5 | The party reached the lip of the main summit crater safely , only to find that it was quite docile , and that there was little to see within the crater apart from dense , swirling clouds of pungent sulphurous steam . |
| 6 | You will find that this can not be pulled out in error ( who has not picked a bit of wool out only to find that it was the marker ! ) and it can either be pulled up tight later as a permanent marker or pulled out and used again . |
| 7 | She found herself walking along the road saying ‘ I 'll talk it all over with Alan when I get in — he 'll know what to do ’ , only to remember that it was Alan who was the cause of the heartache . |
| 8 | No one any longer recalls where this unusual dish had its origins ; indeed some people have been unkind enough to suggest that it was but recently invented by Mr Rory McGurk at the Dehydrated Rambler , on finding himself with too much ageing shepherd 's pie left on his hands . |
| 9 | Others claim to have never really supported the incorrect view in the first place or , if they did , it was only to show that it was inconsistent . |
| 10 | Then she rang Information asking for the number of Clare Hall in Matson Illinois just to establish that it was real . |
| 11 | Diplomatically she accepted it would be better not to mention that it was jealousy about her ideas . |
| 12 | ‘ Which is not to say that it was odious and conceited because it was a feminist . |
| 13 | This is not to say that it was wholly accurate . |
| 14 | This is not to say that it was the consequence of the rise of Fordism ( i.e. , the changes that were taking place during the first half of the 20th century in capitalist methods of production ) . |
| 15 | That is not to say that it was pure opportunism . |
| 16 | She was more startled than ever to find that it was the moon , full and bright , riding the night sky like a silver chariot . |
| 17 | Mrs d'Urberville held each bird and felt it carefully to see that it was in good health . |
| 18 | It was where the bedrooms had been ; they were later to discover that it was where the Romanovs had lived for a century and a half and had been the favourite apartments of Nicholas I. |
| 19 | Mr Major attacked Labour again in Commons questions for ‘ talking Britain down ’ , prompting Mr Smith later to suggest that it was not a question of who is talking the country down , but pulling it down . |
| 20 | We may have been brought up to believe that it was selfish to put our own needs before others . |
| 21 | Lutyens 's family were brought up to believe that it was their father who invented Nanna , and that it was from their own night nursery window in Bloomsbury Square that Wendy and the boys flew with Peter Pan to the Neverland . |
| 22 | Predictably , perhaps , one eagle-eyed visitor to the Royal Photographic Society in Bath , where the sculpture is currently showing , rang up to complain that it was n't accurate , that the bowler could n't have been doing all those things . |
| 23 | He was sufficiently sober by now to know that it was necessary to drive with extra care — but not to appear too careful . |
| 24 | The significance of the battles of Stamford Bridge and Hastings in 1066 hardly needs emphasis ; though we do well to recall that it was not so much William 's victory , as the fact that the two battles had removed his two most serious rivals for the throne , which made the year so decisive in English and Norman history . |
| 25 | But he was somewhat taken aback to learn that it was a severe case of overswinging . |
| 26 | All this was indeed ‘ daring ’ stuff and few moviegoers in that 1914–16 period could have failed to appreciate that the messages were coming at them thick and fast as the motion-picture industry tried hard to prove that it was a mature social agency . |
| 27 | He went on to say that it was irrelevant whether Britain had an industrial base at all if it could be shown that it would be more sensible , from a European point of view , for Britain to become a service nation importing its manufactured product requirements . |
| 28 | Adding that no-one seems to know what really happened , Slater went on to say that it was an apparent lack of early commitment by Motorola 's management which led to the loss of Sun and others as takers for the 88000 . |
| 29 | He went on to say that it was helpful to the Republican cause to have allies and supporters in the oppressing country itself , and that Jasper , Bert , " and your friends " could play a useful part , changing public opinion , providing information . |
| 30 | Be that as it may , the Commission went on to say that it was " not fully convinced " that the balanced slate would ever make its appearance in Britain either . |