Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [adj] was [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | With relief I realized that this was only a day or so away . |
| 2 | Martin thinks that this was probably an oversight on my part and suggests that a simple s.p.s.t. toggle switch should be incorporated in the positive supply from the 9V battery . |
| 3 | Staff agreed that this was probably an area which needed improvement and discussion with parents . |
| 4 | The Young King had been pressing for permission to go on a pilgrimage to Compostella but Henry II , believing that this was just an excuse to get away from his watchful eye , had instead ordered him to help suppress the rebellion in Aquitaine . |
| 5 | It might be thought that this was essentially a matter for the internal law of State A , the forum State . |
| 6 | However , I would net wish it to be thought that this was necessarily a unique example . |
| 7 | What shows that this was generally an unthinking answer , uninformed by any real understanding of interest rates , is that people were just as likely to give this answer whether they thought it would be a percentage of the amount they borrowed , a percentage per year , or even a percentage per month . |
| 8 | The fact that this contains three lancet windows shows that this was once a building . |
| 9 | I felt like deciding then and there never to get drunk again , but being so young I decided that this was probably a little unrealistic , so I determined not to get that drunk again . |
| 10 | And so I decided that this was rather an unfair situation — why should n't women be able to do what a man did ? |
| 11 | But Gostelow denies that this was ever a worthwhile idea . |
| 12 | Some Ministers felt that this was wholly a matter for the conscience or judgment of the individual , and that Ministers who held strong views on the moral issue should not be asked to subordinate those views to a collective decision of the Cabinet . |
| 13 | I felt that this was possibly a chap I should look at — quite apart from the fact that I knew little of him except that he had somehow or other got out of Holland and become the ADC to Queen Wilhelmina at the Dutch headquarters in London . |
| 14 | I did realise that this was simply a preliminary romp — an hors d'oeuvre — and I kept the forthcoming main dish in mind . |
| 15 | We thought that this was rather a superficial document , containing many forecasts which seemed to be based on inadequate data or questionable assumptions . |
| 16 | The republican Interior Ministry insisted that this was just a routine annual drill and was in no way linked to speculation in the Croatian press that the Yugoslav People 's Army ( JNA ) , in connivance with the Serbian authorities and Serb minority leaders in Croatia , was preparing a coup against Tudjman 's adminstration . |
| 17 | His 1817 book , An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of English Architecture , asserted that Gothic was essentially an English architecture . |
| 18 | Since the Province has a population larger than that of England , this means that this was quite an important personage roughly equivalent to the Minister for Higher Education in Britain . |
| 19 | In fact I cried when I got to the top , but I think that that was just a release of emotion . |
| 20 | But this was just a game , and before some one points out that the stock market is itself just a game ( for somewhat privileged people ) , I should add that this was just a family game being marketed in Sheffield for Christmas . |
| 21 | She did not add that this was quite a relief amongst the Anglican priesthood . |
| 22 | He described this as " grossly inadequate " and said that this was effectively a symptom of the basic unreasonableness of the contract . |
| 23 | While Roel Pieper recognised that there had been some negative reaction to the merger both from Unix Labs employees and Unix Labs shareholders , as well as Unix International Inc members , he said that this was merely a human reaction to change and he felt confident that their talks in Japan and to Unix Labs members had a been able to address the concerns of Japanese customers regarding the Japanese market . |
| 24 | Even Darwin admitted that his confidence was tested when he contemplated the vertebrate eye , although he went on to say that this was more a failure of the imagination than of the intellect . |