Example sentences of "this [was/were] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yes , one of the , one of the surprises of this was discovering that in fact one of the people who knew Florence Kelly and indeed worked for her for a while , and who herself set up a minimum wage board in Washington , in the District of Columbia , is indeed still alive , and has very powerful memories of , of both the people and the activities of the movement . |
| 2 | One way of making sense of this was to suppose that genes were made of proteins , and that the DNA merely provided the string on which the protein beads were strung . |
| 3 | We had to repossess what fate had handed us on a plate , and the only way to do this was to claim that we had willed it all along . |
| 4 | This was to assume that the Danish people would change their minds of their own volition ; that they had been so overcome by the enormity of what they had done that they would hardly be able to wait to get back to the polling stations to put it all right . |
| 5 | This was to ensure that he or she would not be pressurized to publish things against their judgement or be got rid of in favour of an outsider who would change the paper 's political line . |
| 6 | The aim of this was to ensure that America would become a permanent arms economy in which the state would underwrite American corporations through their guarantee of demand for the high technology goods which these corporations had invested in during the war . |
| 7 | This was to ensure that the sequences could not be rejected as sentences merely by reading the first words . |
| 8 | This was to ensure that proceedings were not brought where the interests of the public or the family dictated otherwise . |
| 9 | This was anticipated that there would be some add-on to the report that came to the last committee . |