Example sentences of "that this [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The late Hans Keller , the most peppery and venerable writer on music since George Bernard Shaw , dearly wished that this were still the case . |
| 2 | Staff agreed that this was probably an area which needed improvement and discussion with parents . |
| 3 | Martin thinks that this was probably an oversight on my part and suggests that a simple s.p.s.t. toggle switch should be incorporated in the positive supply from the 9V battery . |
| 4 | Snizort thought that this was probably the time of day that the Beastline enjoyed best ; supping at the long oak table , making plans to regain Tara , drinking spiced wine or mead . |
| 5 | Figures 2.1 and 2.2 remind us that this was also an era of sporadic , but vicious , feuds between whites and what they saw as the invading blacks . |
| 6 | It was subsequently shown that this was also the case for intestinal secretion caused by the heat stable enterotoxin from Escherichia coli , certain bile salts , ricinoleic acid , serotonin , and prostaglandin E 2 ( for reviews consult Lundgren et al and Jodal ) . |
| 7 | The whole story is complicated by the fact that this was also the time of break-up of the supercontinent Pangaea . |
| 8 | It happened that this was also the form advocated by Vuk Karadžić in Serbia , and for a time Ljudevit Gaj ( 1809–72 ) , the leader of the Illyrian Movement in Croatia , warmed to the idea that Serbs and Croats shared a common language and culture . |
| 9 | In Madrid , the new government of General Prim was equally aware that their actions would need to avoid giving offence to France and that this was particularly the case when it came to choosing a new monarch to replace the dethroned Isabella . |
| 10 | Richard was still not allowed to speak — he was not recovering quite so fast as had been expected — and he could make little reply when Laura told him that this was exactly the kind of thing she had expected all along , and that she would see about disposing of Lord Jim immediately . |
| 11 | Diane told herself that this was just a kind of paranoia on her part , an over-apprehension that came from reading too many doctor articles in women 's magazines , but it did n't make her any less uneasy . |
| 12 | ‘ In case you were thinking , ’ he concluded , ‘ that this was just a quarrel among blacks , a spot of faction-fighting . |
| 13 | But this was just a game , and before some one points out that the stock market is itself just a game ( for somewhat privileged people ) , I should add that this was just a family game being marketed in Sheffield for Christmas . |
| 14 | Then I realized that this was just the beginning . |
| 15 | ‘ Little did I know that this was just the tip of an Iceberg , frozen on chat shows , enlarged on British Telecom commercials and now floating treacherously towards me . |
| 16 | The report acknowledged , however , that this was just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 17 | Earlier that morning Wexford had quoted Justice Shallow and now , as he contemplated Jolyon Vigo 's house , he thought that this was just the sort of place Shallow might have lived in . |
| 18 | Considering that this was just the period when women were making history , Thompson has got it very wrong indeed . |
| 19 | The Young King had been pressing for permission to go on a pilgrimage to Compostella but Henry II , believing that this was just an excuse to get away from his watchful eye , had instead ordered him to help suppress the rebellion in Aquitaine . |
| 20 | It struck Madeleine that this was surely a waste of time . |
| 21 | Some Ministers felt that this was wholly a matter for the conscience or judgment of the individual , and that Ministers who held strong views on the moral issue should not be asked to subordinate those views to a collective decision of the Cabinet . |
| 22 | He described this as " grossly inadequate " and said that this was effectively a symptom of the basic unreasonableness of the contract . |
| 23 | The fact that this contains three lancet windows shows that this was once a building . |
| 24 | Incautiously taking what seemed a marvellous idea from a friend , the notion of two people who each wished to get rid of someone swapping victims , he discovered when his book was written that this was precisely the plot for a novel by Patricia Highsmith , Stranger on a Train , which neither he nor his friend knew of . |
| 25 | To suggest that rape is something more than sexual intercourse without consent runs counter to the view of the Heilbron Committee which considered that this was precisely the meaning of rape . |
| 26 | I felt that this was possibly a chap I should look at — quite apart from the fact that I knew little of him except that he had somehow or other got out of Holland and become the ADC to Queen Wilhelmina at the Dutch headquarters in London . |
| 27 | Even Darwin admitted that his confidence was tested when he contemplated the vertebrate eye , although he went on to say that this was more a failure of the imagination than of the intellect . |
| 28 | With relief I realized that this was only a day or so away . |
| 29 | But these people had been shot down some months ago and as the Feldwebel had told me that this was only a transit camp I knew that I was not likely to meet them here . |
| 30 | As time passed I became more and more interested in the intriguing field of radio broadcasting , little knowing that this was only the beginning of a radio career lasting for the next 50 years . |