Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mum said that as a Christian She was not going to write me a note when there was n't anything wrong with me and that I was to remember that we Christians are the light of the world . |
| 2 | It is likely to be , even , that two mental events are not of the same type on two occasions when I give a more explicit description of my experience , perhaps that I was thinking that my daughter is a quick thinker . |
| 3 | Perhaps my slightly jaundiced view stems from the fact that I was expecting that a book based on a workshop on the physical and neuropsychological basis of music would contain some physics , or at the very least some reasonably quantitative science rather than somewhat vague speculations . |
| 4 | Sorry , I should explain to the committee that I was informed that the secretary who normally does the minutes for the half past one was sick , and had , she 'd been sent home by her doctor at lunch time , so I came back from lunch and had to come straight into committee , and I do apologize if I have missed bits of paper or whatever , I 've gathered up everything I could , but that might well be one of the things that I 've left behind . |
| 5 | She never said to whom that fresh statement was made , but it was apparent to the jury that she was saying that she had made a statement contrary to that incriminating one , and she was suggesting that the second statement set out her case as she was putting it in the witness box . |
| 6 | I can well imagine that you were protesting that there are behaviours ( like aggression ) which you simply can not ignore . |
| 7 | Think that you were think that you were differentiating something . |
| 8 | They had realized that we were saying that lesbian and gay sexual relationships were as good as heterosexual relationships : they had realized the panic that this issue could generate . |
| 9 | She says that they were told that it was a bomb scare . |
| 10 | As that subsection gives the court a discretion to stay or suspend execution of the order , it can not be the position that it was intended that the landlord could take the matter into his own hands . |
| 11 | It is quite clear against the background that I have described that it was intended that it should be an exceptional power and that it should be used only when there are no other ways in which the individual applicant may consider the case himself through the planning process . |
| 12 | Also on March 21 it was announced that it was intended that from April 1993 all further education colleges offering full-time education and all sixth-form colleges should be taken out of local authority control , as the new sector of post-16 education funded directly by central government . |
| 13 | However , it seems unlikely that it was intended that less disclosure should be made to private customers than to professionals . |
| 14 | And we 're not doing yet the things that it was planned that we 'd be doing of in a year . |
| 15 | He was so quick to forgive personal insults and injuries that it was said that you only had to injure him in order to have him as a friend for life . |
| 16 | Poets were so highly esteemed that it was said that a Delhi-wallah visiting a friend in another part of India would always take with him as a present not jewels or hookahs or fine weapons but a few of Mir Taqi Mir 's new verses copied on to a single sheet of paper . |
| 17 | And you you will know as well in relation to Policy H one that it was said that if fact development housing development in particular 's kept pace more or less with the er the policy of er the the policy set out in the structure plan . |
| 18 | It was here that it was discovered that ‘ corn steep liquor ’ , the material left over after extracting starch from maize , was a valuable nutrient for Penicillium notatum . |
| 19 | The skin ended up in the Natural History Museum in Copenhagen and it was only when the corpse was examined that it was discovered that sulukongur was in fact a female ! |
| 20 | It may also be that the early returns from the voyages proved small , and that it was felt that investment in them did not provide an adequate reward for those involved . |
| 21 | He said that it was felt that the change would give both parties more freedom of choice , and stressed that he would continue to use Tory on a freelance basis and was not intending to appoint another stable jockey before the end of the season . |
| 22 | In the same year as Jacobson published his experiments , a ‘ failure to replicate , report signed by twenty-three authors appeared in the major journal , Science , and the matter might have rested there but for the fact that it was noticed that the method which Jacobson had used to extract RNA from his rat brains also liberated a good deal of protein and other contaminants . |
| 23 | It was explained that it was hoped that they would ‘ befriend ’ a life preparation student for craft sessions , working alongside each other on a variety of projects . |
| 24 | In presenting the programme to the Assembly , Meksi said that it was hoped that the freeing of food prices would ease scarcities . |
| 25 | The calf was in such bad condition that it was decided that its only chance of survival was to transfer it to Colombo Zoo for treatment . |
| 26 | As a result the warbler increased in numbers until by 1988 the population had built to the extent that it was decided that some birds could be caught and transported to the island of Aride , some twelve kilometres north , which is managed by the UK-based Royal Society for Nature Conservation . |
| 27 | He said that it was suspected that the SIB unit at the cottage was an army intelligence assassination squad . |
| 28 | It was only after the two thieves dressed up as policemen had escaped last Sunday with treasures conservatively estimated at $200m that it was revealed that they were uninsured . |
| 29 | When the Almoravid general sent a token force of twenty mounted warriors to the gates of the city , their arrival caused such consternation that it was believed that there were actually 500 or more . |
| 30 | Perhaps the other point I can make is to go back to the question of why women tutors and people in the university generally have emphasised harassment of students by academic staff more than they 've emphasised harassment by students of one another , and I think it 's not that it was thought that students did n't commonly make each other uncomfortable , but as an issue of principle in terms of whether it 's appropriate for university or college authorities to intervene in what many people regard as students ' private lives . |