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 | Staff there , who do n't want to be named were horrified that children should be the target of a terrorist attack . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Quite apart from the adverse opinion polls , they were conscious that Britain was in the midst of its second deep recession in little more than a decade . |
| 25 | In some ways the locals were lucky that Ennex had bought Mogul as the original lease did not require the leaseholders , Mogul , to rehabilitate the area until the lease expired on 1 December 1988 . |
| 26 | Thousands of Ulster citizens have taken the law into their own hands to save their country , many of these people were encouraged by the speeches of our ‘ leaders ’ ; many were frustrated that speeches were all they made . |
| 27 | Carpenters were confident that Soren Larson would be sea worthy by tonight . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |