Example sentences of "that [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Monday evening they phone me up and said that I was to attend another meeting on Tuesday which I believe were the twenty second to which they said , We 've thought about it and we 've decided not to continue your employment . |
| 2 | I sometimes felt that I was taking unfair advantage of the family 's need to talk through their problems with a sympathetic outsider . |
| 3 | I am no less interested to observe that , for Eliot , who always seemed unhurried , ‘ there is plenty of time ’ could mean a period of not much more than three weeks for reading ( the Strachey book being pretty long ) , writing typing and dispatching : which , given the fact that Spender 's book had not arrived , that I was teaching all day and conducting some evening classes , I still consider a tight fit . |
| 4 | ‘ No , but I ca n't say that I was paying much attention . ’ |
| 5 | Oh yes you told me this that I was doing hard labour and he said I was building the building . |
| 6 | It must have been in the late 1960s or early 1970s that I was bemoaning this problem with my French colleague Michel Vigier who was also disturbed at the prospect of being snowed under with an indigestible amount of data from DFDRs . |
| 7 | Now , my theory that I was proposing last week about preferential parental investment in sexy sons or little boys who showed phallic behaviour , is a consequence of the Trivers Willard principle , because basically what it says is that little boys who advertised , as it were , in their childhood , evidence of their own adult reproductive success by precocious sexuality towards the women of the family and aggression towards the males , might be rewarded by preferential parental investment , a Trivers Willard effect in other words , and if , when they grew up , those oedipal sexy sons were in fact more reproductively successful , then the result would be a kind of self-perpetuating cycle of parental investment in oedipal sons who then grew up to be more reproductively successful than non-oedipal sons and , and so on . |
| 8 | He glanced around , satisfied that nobody was taking any notice of his suspicious behaviour , then opened the door fractionally and peered inside . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She was more than a little astounded , however , that , as Naylor stood facing her in the hall of her home , she should suddenly feel breathless and find that she was extending that courtesy even further . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Take some pills that you were given last night . |
| 16 | Take some pills that you were given last night . |
| 17 | It did not escape my notice , however , that you were accompanied last night by a rather large , rather muddy man who , I gathered from hints dropped from various quarters , had been your escort that evening . |
| 18 | That we were watching last night . |
| 19 | I know now it was our believing that we were fulfilling some end , serving some plan — that all would come out well in the end , because there was some great plan over all . |
| 20 | I crouched down so that we were eyeballing each other and began to pull funny faces , the sort of expressions you do in traffic jams when you do n't think anyone 's watching . |
| 21 | I was gon na be happy to move the recommendation sir and anyone who 's aware of the traffic problem in London Road Brandon will , will support that and also sir the figures that in the questionnaire that was sent out support route A , emphatically because you 'll notice that double the people er double the number who returned the questionnaire supported route A as opposed to any of the other alternatives , so , so I think the , the recommendation that we were to accept this morning 's various adequately worded and , and accepted . |
| 22 | Much as we longed for another child , and overjoyed as we were that we were to have another daughter , we both said that it was the hardest thing we had ever done , to see a lovely young mother say goodbye to her daughter . |
| 23 | The news broke that we were to have another squadron of Pathfinders , but these were going to be crack troops flying Mosquitoes , a much smaller aircraft than the good old faithful Lancaster , and much faster . |
| 24 | You may remember that we were talking last autumn about gas prices hopefully continuing to rise natural gas by to rise during the rest of the year and in fact that did take place and it did have some impact on the domestic rig count in the United States which went up quite strongly in the last part of the year . |
| 25 | And the announcement that we were having that visit . |
| 26 | Dan man you 've got th Dan you know the tape that we were recording last night , you 've got ta hear it yeah there 's this bit , yeah , where erm Alex just walks off yeah with the Walkman yeah and he goes into the toilet |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Surprising when you consider that it 's ‘ not so very long ago ’ that they were eating each other ( laughter ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |