Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [pers pn] was [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 | If they had realised when they answered the advertisement in the Evening Citizen that it was bare metal , they would have gone elsewhere . |
| 4 | So eager was she to experience another session of past-life regression that she was fifteen minutes early for her appointment ! |
| 5 | But the scorecards overwhelmingly supported my assessment that it was one-sided tedium . |
| 6 | Hyndman drew the pessimistic conclusion that it was British power , rather than any kind of pacifism , which held the key to peace . |
| 7 | There were so few possessions or comforts in the room that it was clear Mr Sikes had met hard times . |
| 8 | Opinion was mobilised around the paradoxical notion that it was Black people who represented a threat to the rule of law in Britain . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It 's sensual , yes , and passionate but did not deserve the criticism that it was soft porn . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | His strong belief that she was withholding things from him did , after all , have some basis in fact . |
| 17 | The Tory back-benchers could take some comfort from the argument that it was operational control rather than manufacture of the weapons that mattered . |
| 18 | It was so deep this dislocation , this feeling that she was two people . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This decision upheld an earlier ruling that it was unfair labour practice to exclude skilled black miners , purely on the basis of race , from the pension scheme . |
| 23 | He returned to power in 1958 haunted by the thought that he was ten years too late . |
| 24 | Such was the emotion caused by the attack that it was some time before any of the defenders recalled that the Collector had not been feeling well and wondered what had become of him . |
| 25 | Yet his great blue jowls appeared sufficient fortification against the world ; while so immense was his dignity that it was some while before I realized he spent his nights in the arms of my recently widowed mother . |
| 26 | There was another reason which Marama did n't reveal , until the day before he was due to sail , when she told the painter that she was three months pregnant . |
| 27 | ‘ I have no doubt that it was this misfortune that caused the appellant 's financial difficulties , one huge bad debt and the loss of regular valuable business , ’ said the judgment . |
| 28 | Thus , there seems little doubt that it was bubonic plague which struck Chesterfield in 1586–87 . |
| 29 | This afternoon — I arrived in Salisbury at around three thirty — when I entered my address in her register as ‘ Darlington Hall ’ , I could see her look at me with some trepidation , assuming no doubt that I was some gentleman used to such places as the Ritz or the Dorchester and that I would storm out of her guest house on being shown my room . |
| 30 | As it is the second , we have to consider the possibility that it was just complacency , which the minister vehemently denies , or even downright carelessness . |