Example sentences of "that [pron] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The explanation is apparently that the proceedings were launched with little notice and J. 's mother and those advising her wished to have an opportunity of acquiring further expert evidence which would , they hoped , support her view and that which was then the view of the local authority , namely , that artificial ventilation should be used if necessary .
2 After that there was just the gully to descend , the sinking sand to cross , the sea to wade and the bog to hop .
3 There were a lot a lot involved there er and some of you actually found that that there was quite a lot that you really had to almost worry about and think about and and er yesterday for the first time of doing it with this this new method it does take quite a bit of thinking about and as we agreed practice is is what 's what 's important ..
4 ‘ Lots of reasons , the main one being that he was basically a crook with a number of little operations going at the factory .
5 H.G. Wells describes how ‘ Spectators would fall a-talking of the fashionableness of bicycling — how judges and stock-brokers and actresses , and , in fact all the best people rode — and how that it was often the fancy of such great folk to shun the big hotels … and seek , incognito , the cosy quaintness of village life . ’
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