Example sentences of "that [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I sometimes felt that I was taking unfair advantage of the family 's need to talk through their problems with a sympathetic outsider .
2 People would occasionally point out that I was wearing odd shoes , but it really did n't seem to matter .
3 Oh yes you told me this that I was doing hard labour and he said I was building the building .
4 ‘ I knew that I was doing evil things , but I could not stop myself .
5 There remains the possibility that the pregnant mother may catch the infection after her first antenatal examination , or that she was incubating early syphilis and therefore had negative blood-tests when first seen .
6 So good were her father 's hints and tips that she was appointed official yearbook photographer at high school and from there she went on to study applied photography at college .
7 So good were her father 's hints and tips that she was appointed official yearbook photographer at high school and from there she went on to study applied photography at college .
8 You do n't want to know that she was wearing odd socks and one of them was green , it 's
9 He had already recognised that she was wearing poor clothing , and it was also obvious that she was taking her work seriously enough to sacrifice her privileged lifestyle and live among those of whom she wrote .
10 As she gradually changed her beliefs , Cathy found that she was meeting different kinds of men .
11 One woman , a party official 's wife , is said by the Anglican vicar to have eaten twenty-one croustades of morels in a sauce of cream and truffle , with a vapeur of Armagnac , in the belief that she was fostering international relations .
12 The character of a woman may be attacked in ways other than an explicit recounting of her past sexual relationships or , indeed , that she was having sexual relationships .
13 Well , Val I think you are quite right in thinking that you are not alone in feeling let down after purchasing the ‘ wrong ’ computer for your needs and I do agree that you were given poor advice by the store you purchased from .
14 Not that you were dissimulating unfelt emotions : you were merely their translator , and you transcended those emotions , imparting to them that furnace heat which makes a work of genius give off light if it is brought to the desired temperature .
15 The whole performance was an almost total waste of time , and was accompanied by a belief that it was necessary to demonstrate that one was working long hours in the evenings , and preferably all weekends as well .
16 She turned and leant against the edge of the parapet , so that we were facing opposite ways , and came to a decision .
17 I think that 's what Priest , I mean I do n't know , Priest probably has a whole history of how he got is Esquire style , but Vincent went over there and had something to do with it , and I really think that taking the old style stuff and giving it a new spin helped , and the difference between what we 're doing and what the California crowd was doing — and this was also the time of punk rock — was that we were using traditional typefaces and they were
18 There was a discernable impact , and in any case , part of the concept is to create an interest in books at Christmas , and we are happy that we were creating extra sales and an awareness of books . ’
19 Others have suggested that there were paired nasal sacs opening separately and gave rise to the theory that heterostracans might be ancestral to jawed vertebrates ( Fig. 2 B , b ) .
20 The most recent sequence of excavations has established that there was limited pre-Roman occupation of the site , in the form of a round house , which may have been associated with areas of ploughed fields , found below Roman levels in Annetwell Street , even though they had apparently reverted to pasture immediately before the arrival of the Romans .
21 A similar study of modular Stage I assessment data ( 1986 ; see Table 6.2 ) showed that there was imbalanced modular provision and enrolment over the academic year .
22 Bolognese lawyers were so important to both the papal and imperial parties in supplying them with lawyers to staff their governments and administrations that they were given special protection .
23 Mary Mauchline explained again that they were telling dirty jokes .
24 Listening with half an ear as she examined the cluster of bottles on the draining-board , she caught the names of several authors and concluded that they were discussing contemporary novelists .
25 It would be fanciful to suppose that Charles and Diana are enjoying marital bliss just months after their faces confirmed that they were living separate lives .
26 Nonetheless he believed that they were seeing genuine effects that were inexplicable unless fusion were taking place .
27 In other business the Supreme Court upheld the convictions of eight members of the nationwide Sanctuary Movement , who claimed that their rights had been violated when agents had infiltrated church services to uncover evidence that they were harbouring illegal aliens from Central America .
28 The notion that they were mutated terrestrial insects does not bear inspection .
29 A number of countries immediately announced that they were establishing diplomatic relations with Namibia ; these included the Soviet Union , China , Pakistan , Poland , East Germany and Romania .
30 Everyone was fiddling like mad when we got a leak through from the office that they were sending private detectives round the houses …
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