Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sohail and Ramiz made 16 untroubled , and that evening Akram expressed fresh concern that some were still complaining that he and Waqar must be ‘ doctoring ’ the ball . |
| 2 | This was implicitly acknowledged that same evening by Mrs Thatcher 's appointment of George Younger to run her election campaign . |
| 3 | This was not to say that he did n't spend time with the army , lending vigorous help as the trains of oxen dragged the batteries into position , and the wagonloads of food and fodder , weapons and powder bumped fifty miles south-east from Kyrenia to where Famagusta lay , lodged in its bay , divided by ninety broad sea miles from Syria . |
| 4 | This was not to say that organized and structured prayers for the dead had ceased , for the Roman Rite included plenary intercessions for the living and the dead at every mass ; the annual mass for the departed was on All Souls ' Day , a standard event in the Church 's calendar , set apart for the benefit of souls in purgatory . |
| 5 | Although the Canadian parent did send an accountant over to Belfast , this was only to ensure that Short 's accounting methods were harmonised with the group . |
| 6 | The look that McAllister gave him when she said this was so killing that Dr Neil decided to remove temptation by removing himself . |
| 7 | Well er the I mean there has been a slight complexity with the replacement er programme of course because er er E F two thousand was originally envisaged that it would replace the phantoms er as as as as well as the jaguars and now that er has altered with the decision in options to er get rid of er the phantom squadrons , we 've er been able to adjust the replacement programme such that er the aircraft E F two thousand will replace er the erm er the jaguar and some of the F threes er and the programme will be adjusted such that we get er the most cost effective er mixture of replacement of those two types and there is no problem with keeping the jaguar going until that stage and it may well be it is , is being judged to be cheaper that we should er do some F three replacement at the same time , again partly for cost reasons because it 's gon na be more cost effective to do it that way . |
| 8 | But if he decides for Mrs. McLoughlin , then he has intervened in Mr. O'Brian 's life even though the latter was not warned that this would happen . |
| 9 | If the greatest and richest in the land were exempted from the indignity of assessment , so many of the poorest were simply overlooked that every list ended up short of about one-third of the men it should have included , and since almost all of these were worth less than £2 the general level of wealth is made to look higher than it really was . |
| 10 | University members of boards in particular were regularly to agree that the process was more rigorous than those in their own universities . |
| 11 | She first recognised her call in 1792 at the age of forty-two and at her death in 1814 was still announcing that she was to bear a saviour child , the " Almighty Shiloh " . |
| 12 | But that was not to say that people had a right to it , that they were entitled to it . |
| 13 | She was a powerful woman , trained in the arts of self-defence , but that was not to say that she lacked feminine charm . |
| 14 | That was not to say that she herself thought of the films as being an easy option . |