Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [pers pn] [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He must tell the judiciary that it was this accountant Morris who abused the trust the firm showed in him . ’ |
| 2 | At first she had thought with a shock of fear that it was old age , that old age was like silicon , water-soluble , it flowed into you and as you dried out , it hardened , recasting you in blurred shapes and muted tones . |
| 3 | Suddenly the Whitley was entirely surrounded by strange aircraft I learned later after much research that they were Fairey Foxes ) . |
| 4 | If they had realised when they answered the advertisement in the Evening Citizen that it was bare metal , they would have gone elsewhere . |
| 5 | ‘ Internal command radio , ’ Juron 's voice said in Yeremi 's ear , startling him with the recognition that they were all parts of one united body now . |
| 6 | So eager was she to experience another session of past-life regression that she was fifteen minutes early for her appointment ! |
| 7 | But the scorecards overwhelmingly supported my assessment that it was one-sided tedium . |
| 8 | He was respectful but unalarmed when the King appeared and after a moment 's silence he chose to laugh at the likeness and the revelation that they were distant cousins ; indeed , so little was Rassendyll impressed that he noted that the King 's mouth lacked ‘ something of the firmness ( or obstinacy ) which was to be gathered from my close-shutting lips ’ . |
| 9 | It was only by convincing political authorities , the religious denominations , and the agents of respectable opinion that they were responsible citizens that showmen were able to retain control of the highly profitable business that they had created . |
| 10 | Hyndman drew the pessimistic conclusion that it was British power , rather than any kind of pacifism , which held the key to peace . |
| 11 | The latter were again vulnerable to the charge that they were inveterate appeasers . |
| 12 | We are drinking 60 per cent more Alsatian wine that we were five years ago ; in the first six months of 1990 imports from Alsace rose by 26 percent . |
| 13 | There were so few possessions or comforts in the room that it was clear Mr Sikes had met hard times . |
| 14 | Opinion was mobilised around the paradoxical notion that it was Black people who represented a threat to the rule of law in Britain . |
| 15 | His father dismissed the notion that it was any necessity and called for his son by clearing his throat , like Henry Irving demanded a prompt . |
| 16 | It was obvious from their colour that they were manual labourers . |
| 17 | The other officer was Gerhard Junack of the Bismarck 's engineering staff , who helped dispel a myth which had gained some credence in the Royal Navy that it was British torpedoes and shells exclusively that had sent the allegedly unsinkable Bismarck to the bottom . |
| 18 | Had some bold prophet told the King that he was one day to preside over a change of Government wearing a Chinese dressing-gown , he would scarcely have believed his ears . |
| 19 | Even Nelson 's invitation was being misconstrued as more evidence that she was some sort of siren who enjoyed luring men with her seductive powers . |
| 20 | The four soldiers , who are now all stationed in Germany but were then in Bordon , each said in evidence that it was this incident which had persuaded them to leave the pub . |
| 21 | It 's sensual , yes , and passionate but did not deserve the criticism that it was soft porn . |
| 22 | and so he had a a degree of uniqueness and er in the area that he was vast numbers of ethnic minorities so he was er he was a white male vegetarian |
| 23 | His strong belief that she was withholding things from him did , after all , have some basis in fact . |
| 24 | The Tory back-benchers could take some comfort from the argument that it was operational control rather than manufacture of the weapons that mattered . |
| 25 | It was so deep this dislocation , this feeling that she was two people . |
| 26 | Did you not find that er the work them became very sort of com compartmentalized if you like , very specific people were doing bits of jobs rather than a feeling that you were all part of a much larger thing ? |
| 27 | But while reasserting the old , he also broke new ground in the claim that he was rightful lord over all men in the area who had hitherto had no lord . |
| 28 | Chapter 14 shows how experts used to have immunity on the ground that they were some kind of arbitrator , until that immunity was swept away in 1975 , but that it is still difficult to sue an expert . |
| 29 | In Cranleigh Precision Engineering Ltd v Bryant Roskill J held that the defendant who had , whilst a director of the plaintiff company , been made aware of a patent held by a third party which affected the plaintiff 's products , could not justify his failure to disclose the existence of the patent to the plaintiffs and his subsequent acquisition of the patent for himself on the ground that it was public knowledge , for what he had misused was his confidential knowledge of the relationship of the information in the patent to the plaintiff 's products . |
| 30 | Your washing-up lady left a message that she was three weeks in arrears and she was going to see her brother in Brighton — whatever that means — anyway I took it out of the petty cash and paid her . |