Example sentences of "was [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a start he was preaching that assurance was essential for salvation ; that is , you could know within you that you were well and truly saved . |
| 2 | He was preaching that evening at a chapel a couple of miles beyond Burford . |
| 3 | It is very unlikely it was intended that way . |
| 4 | It was intended that assessment was made through observation , practical work and discussion during normal lessons . |
| 5 | It had at last been able to start building a hall of residence which had been in abeyance for six years , and the Director was underlining that student accommodation was in short supply in Teesside , and ‘ unless something is done by the provision of fiats , hostels , etc. , to supplement the supply of digs , I can see this being a factor which could really inhibit our development ’ . |
| 6 | Thing is , he was christened that way , and he hates the whole moviestar bit . |
| 7 | I have here a copy of the committee which was formed that night , and also a copy of the minutes , I 'll give each Councillor one , and then they can read it at their leisure , instead of me taking up the whole meeting . |
| 8 | She had a crop of them now that she could n't get rid of , even though she was using that acne treatment that worked wonders for the girl on the telly advert . |
| 9 | Cos I was using that issue at that time , but we always make the proviso that if things change , you may have to alter your mind about where your money 's placed . |
| 10 | It was raining that morning as Sir Maxwell Shaw walked down the village street , a black Labrador at his heels . |
| 11 | An expensive crunch was heard that day , and the dismantled aircraft can now be seen at Socata 's Tarbes factory , ready for a total rebuild . |
| 12 | He watched them rushing through Calais on their way to pay court to Napoleon ( Sonnet : ‘ Is it a reed that 's shaken by the wind ’ ) , and decided , since he regarded the French leader as a despot and a menace to free institutions , that the only course open was to support that party in England which wanted to continue the war , namely the Tories . |
| 13 | I had , in fact , noticed this and had reported it , asking that the board should be moved at once in case the impression was given that the house was about to be demolished . |
| 14 | In the New Forest evidence was given that : |
| 15 | Bevan resuscitated the suggestion in his report of July 1808 to the committee of the Grand Union , and two months later notice was given that an Act of Parliament would be sought for powers to build a canal southwards from Foxton . |
| 16 | Because the novel is written mainly in dialogue , a spurious impression was given that it would be easy to adapt . |
| 17 | There was an immediate inquiry at which evidence was given that Hunt had been running when the race was stopped , but not really racing . |
| 18 | Warning was given that the ‘ Reds ’ were planning a violent demonstration to disrupt the proceedings . |
| 19 | Reassurance was given that he was free to discuss the rival systems as long as the arguments were confined to mathematical astronomy . |
| 20 | It was made clear in a further policy statement that in those cases where the tariff was 20 years or more the reference to the local review committee would be made after 17 years had been served , though a warning was given that this did not imply that any particular period had been set for the prisoner 's tariff . |
| 21 | Er i and it was given that image by pointing the cameras at at at the flats , and then spieling off the crime figures for the whole subdivision . |
| 22 | In July 1831 notice was given that the partnership agreement between Peregrine Phillips senior , John Thorne , and Peregrine Phillips junior , was dissolved with respect to Phillips junior , although his father and Thorne carried on with the business . |
| 23 | In 1965 , an undertaking was given that only serious breaches of the Act should be proceeded against . |
| 24 | However , an assurance was given that , in order not to affect the living standards of those on low incomes , a list of 100 key products and services would be drawn up whose prices would be kept unchanged . |
| 25 | In his judgment the magistrate said a large quantity of drugs , including pentobarbitone , had also been found and that evidence was given that it was used mostly for ‘ the humane euthanasia of badly injured or ill dogs or other animals . ’ |
| 26 | made a Lady , or made I mean she was given that title , or actually I 'm dead against the fact it was her husband who was given the title , erm but to abstract away from that at the moment , somebody who 's been in public service all their lives and who 's devoted much of their life to the cause of the people , I mean I realize that an awful lot of people would think that Margaret Thatcher has n't done that , but let's say that , for the sake of the argument , that at least that 's what she intended for the time being |
| 27 | You see that was to see that you know there was n't any , yes . |
| 28 | Their trick this time was to pretend that Parliament was really only a legislature and not also in consequence the effective controller of executive government . |
| 29 | Yeah , well when I was typing that bit — I actually said originally except Lorimer . |
| 30 | It was generally supposed that in the days of wheel spinning six spinners were needed to keep a weaver at work , and the area around the centres of cloth manufacture within which spinning was put out was so much more extensive than that in which the weaving was undertaken that spinning was done " almost everywhere " . |