Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [be] that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wittgenstein 's answer to the question with which we began is that the psychological verbs , as he calls them , are ‘ characterized by the fact that the third person of the present is to be verified by observation , the first person not ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ The experience we had was that the only people who bought it more or less were the people who used it , ’ says a spokesman . |
| 3 | What they pleaded for was further experimentation and what they hoped was that the new techniques and acting styles could be extended to other types of films . |
| 4 | The answer he gave was that the only ground of legitimacy is to be found in the general will of the people , as only the people can say who has the right to rule them . |
| 5 | All he said was that the other boys must have been useless . |
| 6 | So what happened is that the literate women arranged their time so that every day they now have an hour set by to sit down with one of the illiterates and that 's how the literacy campaign is operating at the moment . |
| 7 | What happened was that the various decisions were taken by technicians and others in staff positions and fed into the line management structure . |