Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British were emphatic that Virgin 's application and the question of PanAm 's third frequency were unrelated . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Boards were conscious that cooking was generally an off-peak load ( and thus cheap to supply ) , and , to reflect this advantage to themselves and meet gas competition , they generally accepted lower retail mark-ups on cookers than was usual on other appliances . |
| 5 | The residents were confident that wartime experience would convert many more of their clothed countrymen to shed their garments too — presumably for no other reason than that it eased the problems caused by clothes rationing . |
| 6 | While the reorganisation of the schools in the area acted as some kind of distraction , staff to whom we spoke were confident that committee members maintained their commitment and interest in the library project throughout a difficult period . |
| 7 | Verdun was a watershed in World War I : before it , all were confident that victory was attainable , albeit with great sacrifice ; after it there was a ghastly realization that no one had the solution to the war . |
| 8 | If patients and relatives were confident that pain control would be established and maintained , requests to ‘ finish it off quickly ’ would diminish . |
| 9 | Some , like Lucie , were confident that Death had long since moved on out of the village . |
| 10 | A D and S report spoke of the ‘ mischief-making ’ our words not Mrs Scott 's but both she and the five who signed the letter were happy that health authority financing would remove the need for the inpatient beds to be phased in . |
| 11 | Islanders were concerned that pollution from the proposed mine would damage the islands supply of water , as well as contaminating their land and fishing grounds , the main livelihood on the island . |
| 12 | Mediterranean EC members were concerned that enlargement would divert regional aid from the south to the east . |
| 13 | The CML accepted the force of this objection , and proposed instead that any rule , if introduced , should require solicitors simply to inform lenders immediately if it were evident that completion would be delayed by more than 3 days — a view which appeared to be supported by a considerable number of other respondents . |
| 14 | Finally , the UK contingent were adamant that transsexuality was not acceptable , and this really created a lot of bad feeling , as the transsexual in question was one of the main organisers of the campaign . |
| 15 | Parents and social services were outraged that abuse victims might come into contact with Stout again if he returned to the city . |
| 16 | Some women were amazed that underwear featured on the agenda of long-term relationships . |
| 17 | Thus , in the Irish Constitution , the framers were anxious that amendment should be a deliberate process , that the rights of citizens should be safeguarded , and that certain types of laws should not be passed at all , and therefore they made the Constitution supreme and imposed restrictions upon the legislature to achieve these ends . |
| 18 | Some Conservative critics from the think-tanks were disappointed that consumer choice and true market solutions had not been taken further ( Green , 1990 ) . |
| 19 | The sisters , who had all married well , were unconcerned that Angel , with only 200 acres of grazing land in the middle of his rich cousins ' estates , had been left to pay his father 's debts . |
| 20 | But the following year ( 1905 ) William Hamilton declared to a delegate meeting of the STA that " even if it were true that work would be lost to Edinburgh , it would be better to follow the work and get fair wages than to see the bread taken out of our mouths at home " . |
| 21 | If it were true that research effort in the area of the curriculum promoted teaching commitment , few would quarrel with the proposed obligation on the department . |
| 22 | With an infinitesimal lift of the eyebrow , Toby provided these things , but both men were aware that battle lines were being drawn . |
| 23 | Most organisations surveyed were aware that hepatitis B is spread by blood-to-blood contact ; however , not all realised that it can also be transmitted through other body fluids . |
| 24 | The living were aware that death would come and claim them and aware of the power of the dead in the hereafter . |
| 25 | So Left-wing Labour MPs were aware that devolution could make yet more obstacles to the achievement of their long-term aims . |
| 26 | Midshipman Callender 's friends no doubt were aware that efficiency united to interest was the strongest claim to promotion in the navy , and Lord Keith 's correspondence abounds in references to interest being a motive in bringing a man forward in the service : ‘ I have made McKenzie a lieutenant into the Rattlesnake ; he was a friend of Mr. Dunsmuress and recommended by Lord Elphinstone to me , so I am glad to have served him ’ , a comment which suggests that the admiral was influenced by something more than Mr. McKenzie 's personal abilities . |
| 27 | And he added it was absurd that Army units which uncovered intelligence about intended attacks on UDR men , as at Drumnakilly outside Omagh , should end up in court . |
| 28 | It was understandable that branch members should be reluctant to risk a fall in recruitment through another increase in fees : yet the rises of 1956 had had no discernible effect . |
| 29 | They said the trend was an unusually low blip and it was possible that crime rates would continue to rise in 1992 . |
| 30 | It was possible that recovery might be organised , and for that reason he would remain where he was at least until morning . |