Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Such was their anxiety during the two days that were left before the exam results were due that Mona and Sheila found it hard to eat or sleep .
2 If Marshal Piłsudski and Colonel Beck , the Polish leaders in Warsaw , were upset that France had not given them stronger backing over the Wilia crisis , then they were also relieved to find that Hitler was not prepared to go to war over the city — at least not yet .
3 Nevertheless , Rangers were grateful that Alan McDonald was under the bar to head away after John Cooke had eluded Kenny Sansom .
4 The British were emphatic that Virgin 's application and the question of PanAm 's third frequency were unrelated .
5 Rumours were rife that Wigan were poised to swoop for the 22-year-old Great Britain star and Saints were lining up Featherstone Rovers ' international Paul Newlove as a replacement but Mr Latham adds : ‘ There have been no enquiries for him he is contracted to us . ’
6 In the first half we attacked the Kop end and hopes were high that Crewe would conceed a bagful of goals in the first half when Deane actually managed to score in the 17th minute .
7 This was reflected in an interesting phenomenon noticed by Mellanby : many school medical officers in safe urban reception areas were insistent that head lice had been virtually unknown in their area until the dirty , verminous and ill-mannered inner city evacuees arrived ; they were shocked when confronted with past hospital records for their town showing that this was not so .
8 Gaitskell and Citrine were clear that Gibson was innocent of the whiff of corruption surrounding the allegations , to which he had no opportunity to reply ( and Churchill in this case expressed his sympathy for Gibson ) , but his resignation had , inevitably , to he accepted .
9 Englishmen were afraid that France might be able to dominate Europe and were determined to hold her in check .
10 They were afraid that owners might respond , as they are entitled to do , by serving a purchase order on the council .
11 The traditional wings of the Labour movement were afraid that Livingstone had unleashed a torrent — and they were right .
12 We were afraid that Brian might fall off
13 Some were impatient of disarmament talks which never resulted in the abandoning of a single weapon ; some were appalled by Civil Defence pamphlets which advocated spending your last four minutes on earth whitewashing your windows and by planners who talked blithely in terms of ‘ megadeaths ’ ; some were convinced that Armageddon would be next week : the immensely influential film of On the Beach showed the last survivors , in Melbourne , waiting for death in 1963 .
14 ‘ Waddell says that the names Pat and Jimmy were used during the attack … it is no wonder the police were convinced that Griffiths and I were responsible . ’
15 Once his followers , many educated people , were convinced that Koresh was a prophet , a mouth piece of God they would do anything he asked of them .
16 Almost half of 750 farmers in a survey were unaware that ADAs provided free public good advice .
17 However , they were unaware that Lewes 's party who were on their way to pick them up had been attacked , and there was confusion about the actual rendezvous point .
18 Annie and Jonadab were unaware that George had written to tell Tamar of their Uncle George 's condition .
19 According to Cashman of the AFCO , employers will find it difficult to plead that they were unaware that cigarette smoke caused illness , when employees sue them .
20 We were delighted that Antonia Byatt 's ( 1958 ) novel Possession won the Booker Prize and would also like to congratulate Penelope Fitzgerald ( 1935 ) whose novel The Gate of Angels was shortlisted .
21 Notice of this summons was given by Crossman Block to More Fisher Brown who , seeing that they were content that directions should be given and , perhaps surprisingly , did not wish to oppose the joinder of the additional parties , did not consider it necessary to attend the hearing which took place before Saville J. on Friday 7 February 1992 .
22 Air and water pollution levels were such that EC standards could only be applied in stages .
23 In particular , the exchange rate of the dollar against the Deutschmark and yen were such that US demand for goods from these two countries must have been greatly stimulated .
24 The details were such that Austria and England were nearly involved in war over the matter .
25 It is certainly true that conditions were such that developers were prepared to pay more than existing use prices for land ; but the conditions were extraordinary .
26 Nevertheless , the authoritarian structure of Imperial Germany , censorship , and the natural self-discipline of the Germans were such that disenchantment remained largely confined to the upper echelons .
27 Applying the principles laid down by this House in American Cyanamid Co. v. Ethicon Ltd. [ 1975 ] A.C. 396 , he first asked himself whether there was a serious question to be tried ; he held that there was , the question being whether or not the facts were such that section 47 was incompatible with article 30 .
28 The times were such that Christianity , whose founder taught brotherly love and forbearance , was quite incapable of applying these precepts within its own jurisdiction .
29 The House of Lords said that the Crown could claim immunity : ( a ) where the contents of the document were such that objection could be made in the national interest to their disclosure ; ( b ) where the documents , although themselves harmless , fell within a class of documents which should always be withheld .
30 Staff there , who do n't want to be named were horrified that children should be the target of a terrorist attack .
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