Example sentences of "that [noun pl] [verb] was " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | All that dealers needed was the ability to persist after the phone had been slammed down on them . |
| 2 | Last October Paul Biya won Cameroon 's presidential election , in a vote that observers said was fraudulent . |
| 3 | G. S. Saxton thought that cattle stealing was ‘ indulged in as pure mischief , as naughty boys used to wrench off knockers … . the idea being ‘ Here is our enemy 's bull , let us eat it' ’ . ' |
| 4 | In 1829 the Supreme Court judges wrote that cattle stealing was ‘ very common ’ . |
| 5 | Their replies indicated that cattle stealing was more common in the Low Country and Intermediate areas than in the Interior region . |
| 6 | Accounts from the 1840s and 1850s show that cattle stealing was thought by the authorities to be a serious problem in many areas . |
| 7 | This social profile indicates that cattle stealing was not primarily a crime of the depressed classes . |
| 8 | The fact that mistakes happened was irrelevant . |