Example sentences of "[adv] [that] [det] [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , yeah er we we had a fair amount of chemical er troubles erm mainly spillages , bad packaging , erm a few accidents erm , and very little information in those early days erm there was a lot of nasty chemicals going around which erm very little information followed it and people were being quite seriously injured , firemen included , policemen and others were getting involved with these things , and I got myself involved quite a lot with the various bodies that deal with chemicals , like the Chemical Industry Association , and people of that kind , trying to make things a bit safer , and taking up cases where spillages had occurred and , and accidents had happened er to try to get to the bottom of it and try to improve the situation and er I was n't alone , most Chief Officers were working that way and certainly the London Fire Brigade did it , did no end of work with producing , what is now commonly known as the coding and , and a system of , of erm er marking containers of chemicals so that people can understand how to deal with them , so that that was quite an interesting area which , even now I 'm now retired I still have a little hand in that with er chemicals er in my few moments I have spare I , I get involved with that side , which I enjoy . |
| 2 | Right that that was just a letter for reference anyway |
| 3 | Not that that was much help ; it still looked more likely that John was with a group backed by Syria and Libya . |
| 4 | Not that that was specially relevant … |
| 5 | They replied formally that that was exactly their object . |
| 6 | ‘ I know , but she told me once that that was enough for her . |
| 7 | It transpired later that neither was seriously injured . |
| 8 | In this case the reports show clearly that this was fully of the degree to be expected when somebody has a really severe blow from a heavy block swinging against the face . |
| 9 | Like all the other young men I had imagined that after a few brisk preliminaries I would be sitting in an aeroplane , learning to fly , but it turned out that this was so far in the future that it was hardly mentioned . |
| 10 | One of the sub-editors , a former vicar with a most un-Christian vocabulary , later pointed out that this was less than the Church of England paid its clergy . |
| 11 | He points out that this was about 5% more than the level of performance during the years 1988 to 1990 . |
| 12 | I see now that these were just the first skirmishes in a never-ending guerrilla war . |
| 13 | Benny could n't believe now that this was so . |
| 14 | Ah well that that was only wee corner shops you know . |
| 15 | But let me say here that that was just how it looked to me at the time ; that there was a nice logic to it , that Boy 's beginning matched O 's ending , that Boy 's first night was O's last , or it certainly would have been his last if Boy had not fallen into his arms . |
| 16 | And then you had a sort of a gadget what would slide the st there was strap coming from the pulley of the oil engine onto There was a loose pulley and there was a gadget , you could slide the strap onto the loose pulley , then that that was only just er turning loose of course , then you slid it back on the fixed and it 's be turning all this shafting along the barn and then there were pulley sets on that and in direct line with crusher and chaff cutter and the scrapping machine you had a a strap form those . |
| 17 | I think a number of us were becoming very concerned indeed that this was eventually becoming a political area and this this is dealt with in this way |
| 18 | Ligachev was highly critical of the reintroduction of private ownership , declaring scornfully that this was hardly " the last word in socialist theory " . |