Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adj] that [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quorshi commented that companies would only do this when they were satisfied that both the PC product and the company selling it had the proper standing . |
| 2 | It was possible that even a reject like him could be of use in such a godforsaken spot . |
| 3 | It was interesting that quite a number saw their being easily located at their place of work as a benefit . |
| 4 | It was true that both the house and the grounds had the curious quality of seeming larger than they were . |
| 5 | It was unlikely that even a common language could create a common national spirit to unite Spanish-speaking people divided by the salt , estranging sea , but as long as empires based on the principles of allegiance to a monarch were the dominant form of political organization they were very well adapted to face the problems of expanding and then of ruling new subjects . |
| 6 | By the early sixties … it was clear that neither the efforts made in the first post-war decade nor the developments outlined in Mr Butler 's White Paper were reducing — or were likely to reduce — the volume of crime or the numbers of persistent offenders . |
| 7 | They stood to attention , but it was clear that both the administrator and his deputy were unsure of the proper response . |
| 8 | But for years the garden , with its extraordinary follies and temples , had been decaying , and it was clear that soon no more than a few heaps of stone would be left . |
| 9 | From March 1918 it was clear that only a crushing military victory by one or other side would bring ‘ peace ’ . |
| 10 | The plenum , in the event , made little influence upon the continuing discussion , and by the early 1990s it was clear that only a reconsideration of the very bases of Soviet statehood would be likely to satisfy the aspirations of the various republics and nationalities . |
| 11 | Shipbuilding was in crisis , and it was clear that only the fittest could survive . |
| 12 | We wrote it down and repeated it time and time again to Sergeant Moustaine , until he was satisfied that even the most stupid of us had understood it . |