Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] that one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now what I 'm saying to you is that there 's a big question mark as far as Goodey er report is concerned and they can talk about er the surpluses , they can talk about the trustees , but there 's no majority as far as the employees are concerned and this was the question mark that we we were saying that one of the reasons why they were saying you know that the employee should be in the minority because in the end paragraph of the summing up of the Goodey report that states quite clearly that all the responsibility and all the but the employer , now you yourself has said that er as far as the schemes and we 're talking of something in the region of a hundred and twenty eight thousand . |
| 2 | After a pause , she said , ‘ And you were hoping that one day she 'd give up seeing men altogether and have a steady relationship with you ? ’ |
| 3 | Despite the temptation to accumulate treasure it was recognized that one way of stimulating gifts was to spend a sizable proportion on the further embellishment of buildings and the enrichment of furnishings and vestments . |
| 4 | At an early stage it was realised that one factor which can inhibit labour mobility is a lack of mutual understanding of qualification systems between member states . |
| 5 | No , these did n't show any stalls , but they 're i it was explained that one of the constraints in the design of the scheme was the brief that they had to leave space for er as many stalls as possible to be erected . |
| 6 | It was reported that one of the two attackers had been wounded while escaping . |
| 7 | This striking result led to further investigations , and it was noticed that one drop of the diluted nasal mucus added to 1 c.c. of a thick suspension of the cocci caused their complete disappearance in a few minutes at 37°C . |
| 8 | With the surrender of Germany and Turkey 's entry into the war , it was felt that one phase of our work was done , and that at last we could go home . |
| 9 | It was said that one of our very junior officers , with more enthusiasm than judgement , had been setting about a smuggler with the help of a dinghy oar when the " smuggler " yelled , " Stop it you silly b … , |
| 10 | It was said that one months worth of rain had rained within about three hours . |
| 11 | It was said that one result of reading the Section as I read it would be this : that Mr Astor would be liable to pay tax in respect of the income received by the trustee in the United States as income deemed to be his ( Part XV ) and also likely to pay tax on the income which the trustee was bound to pay over , the latter being ( within the decision in [ Garland v Archer-Shee ( 1930 ) 15 TC 693 ] ) the income springing from a foreign possession , namely , his right of action against the trustee . |
| 12 | It was written that one day you returned smelling of snow and very ill from winter . |
| 13 | It was alleged that one of those men was TJ . |
| 14 | For example , it was alleged that one of the banks ‘ would not knowingly or recklessly take steps such as to prejudice the business plan ’ . |
| 15 | It was alleged that one of their foster children had recently been threatened with a knife . |
| 16 | I was told that one reason why many Conservative politicians were sympathetic towards our Report was because they did not at first realise that our insistence that all children should speak and write Standard English did not involve any recommendation about RP . |
| 17 | Mr Appleby said he was told that one problem was that the crew did n't have time to clear the ferry properly because of the tight turnaround schedule en route . |
| 18 | She suffered one paroxysm of doubt , the first and the last , and a matter of shame to her as often as she remembered it after , when the hour of noon came and passed , and no one sent for her to go into the town and fetch her father to the audience ; and when she ventured to enquire , she was told that one of his Grace 's clerks had already gone to summon Master Parry , and she need not concern herself in the matter . |
| 19 | The West Dorset coroner , Michael Johnston , was told that one of the victims , Rachel Walker , would have been 17 today . |
| 20 | It was found that one additional car was required on route 42 , to cover the slightly extended journey time . |
| 21 | Building on current practice in case conferences it was found that one difference was that a network meeting involved the client and unpaid informal or family carers , as well as representatives from statutory and voluntary agencies as appropriate . |
| 22 | It was found that one shot had gone right through the moored barrel . |
| 23 | It was known that one gene could influence several traits ( pleiotropism ) and that a single trait could be influenced by many genes ( polygenic inheritance ) . |
| 24 | In fact , it was rumoured that one of the Mill Hill guys had had his brain messed around with by the visitor who screwed up the landing in the Hebrides . |
| 25 | By the late 1820s Geoffroy was arguing that one animal form could be transformed into another by natural processes — not by the accumulation of slight modifications , but by a sudden switching of the growth process so that the development of the individual proceeded in a new direction to mature as a new modification of the basic pattern . |
| 26 | I was to learn that one of my air gunners had sold the sheep , and he seemed to go into hiding . |
| 27 | In order to avoid the hitches of the last trip , they had carried it in its bag , but when unpacked it was discovered that one of the parts was damaged . |
| 28 | These suspicions were fuelled when it was discovered that one of those killed was not employed at the mine . |
| 29 | While lesser villages grabbed a few per cent here and there , le Mesnil-sur-Oger was denied that one vital per cent required for full grand cru status . |
| 30 | The result is very different from the ideas expressed in chapter 6 , where it was suggested that one of the many results of the rise of material culture as a mode of cultural form was its ability to multiply and keep apart a plethora of hierarchies and diverse spheres . |