Example sentences of "that it [was/were] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So successful was the system that it was reintroduced at the beginning of World War II . |
| 2 | It is scarcely conceivable in the political climate of the time that the alternative would have been adopted as a matter of policy , but that it was avoided at the cost of serious reductions in the level of policing in much of the country suggests a conscious choice . |
| 3 | You can not deduce from the fact that it was happening at the same time that it was a cause . |
| 4 | All four men stood in the room and Farrell raised the pistol once more so that it was aimed at the agent 's head . |
| 5 | It was because the parties had all analysed the nature of the problem we had to decide in the same way that it was agreed at the outset of the hearing before us that the central question we had to answer was this : in what capacity are High Court judges sitting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court in disciplinary cases ? |
| 6 | Pinnacle , based in Columbus , Ohio , had originally planned to use the Texas Instruments Inc 64-bit SuperSparc that Sun is using in its latest workstations , but realised some time ago that it was waiting at the back of a long line of manufacturers queuing for a trickle of SuperSparcs being thrown their way . |