Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adv] [adj] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The [ Son-of-Sam ] statute represents a response to the outrage expressed by the public at an offender 's ability to profit from his wrong ; but what publisher could contract with an offender if he were not certain that the public 's response to the offender 's story would generate enough profit to make his efforts worthwhile ? ’ |
| 2 | Providing there was no direct Chinese communist intervention he was utterly confident that in one year not only would he have secured the Tonkin Delta but would have completely eradicated the Vietminh from South Vietnam so that , by the spring of 1953 , the Vietminh revolt would have been stamped out . |
| 3 | He was excited by the ferocious vitality and darting breadth of reference of the work , and secretly , personally , he was rather pleased that all this had been achieved out of so peaceable , so unruffled a private existence . |
| 4 | He was rather perturbed that his in-bleeper would n't work on the train 's radiophone . ) |
| 5 | He was rather glad that Araminta would be some way removed from him , and reflected that cold water might be no bad thing . |
| 6 | I mean , he did n't know about genes and he was rather lucky that he chose to study the aspects of things he did . |
| 7 | He was pretty sure that Michel was gay , whatever he had said to Eleanor . |
| 8 | He was pretty sure that she had n't recognised him . |
| 9 | He was particularly angry that the government had abandoned its demand that ‘ federalism ’ would be one of the cast iron principles that a constituent assembly , to be elected next year , would be compelled to implement . |
| 10 | For the Opposition , Sam Galbraith said he was particularly angry that the Government was reneging on the ballot subsidy . |
| 11 | He was feeling genuinely enthusiastic , in a splendid mood , but he was nervously aware that it could disappear any minute . |
| 12 | Because he made that statement when discussing the concentric spheres with which Aristotle had built the cosmos , he was evidently aware that authoritative world-pictures were not inviolable . |
| 13 | This pioneering work was ignored by his contemporaries and when Alexander Fleming first noted , by chance , the antibacterial action of Penicillium mould in 1928 , he was completely unaware that his discovery had been anticipated . |
| 14 | He was firmly convinced that it was only by consolidating working class effort to meet capitalist effort that they would win through to salvation … |
| 15 | He had of course his grasp of military and diplomatic practice to help him ; and he was firmly convinced that the Roman constitution was open to analysis in Greek terms . |
| 16 | There was no arrogance in the man ; he was desperately aware that he was letting down all his fellow-actors , and by one of the least forgivable of professional shortcomings . |
| 17 | They had barely spoken yet , but he was already conscious that the boy was different from anyone he had ever met . |
| 18 | Then , of course , there was Edmund Halley , he of comet fame — he was equally certain that the flooding had been caused by a passing comet . |
| 19 | Now he was equally certain that Alain Gebrec 's death was suicide . |
| 20 | To American critics of his open-handedness he firmly replied that the British were " true allies " , but he was equally emphatic that he could see no reason for a French nuclear arsenal . |
| 21 | At the same time he was equally concerned that the dancing itself should be interesting . |
| 22 | Matthew wondered if he was equally conscious that his land needed as much attention as the house . |
| 23 | And Sladen did n't know what was going on , either , but I do n't think he wanted to ; he was just scared that somebody would start throwing coffee cups and he 'd get the blame . |
| 24 | A little bit I think that he was just concerned that perhaps there might 've been other people who might 've wanted to come and if people had rung up and you had had a waiting list something could 've been done about it |
| 25 | Ca n't you see that he was just worried that you would betray some of the organization 's secrets in a moment of passion ? |
| 26 | ‘ His thumb had been completely ripped off but he was just worried that he might need stitches . |
| 27 | He was n't certain that Emily had n't forged ahead a stage or two . |
| 28 | He was n't sure that he could stand many more nights up in the wood . |
| 29 | He was n't sure that it would . |
| 30 | This new building was no doubt excellent of its kind , but if the intention had been to express confident authority tempered by humanity he was n't sure that the architect had succeeded . |