Example sentences of "[noun prp] that [adj] [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We believed the rumour on Tuesday that British Aerospace was building up a big shareholding but we are not so sure now , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 2 | When the Goncourt brothers noted in their Journal in the 1860s that the new Paris resembled ‘ some future American Babylon ’ , they were nearer to the truth than they knew , though they got it the wrong way round , for it was in many of the cities of the United States that French influence was predominant . |
| 3 | It must have seriously worried both Raybestos and the IDA that this letter was provided by a source inside the factory . |
| 4 | However , not all those leaving Romania could be regarded as permanent refugees ; the news agency Rompres reported in February that some refugees were beginning to return home . |
| 5 | The Baron had been the Prince 's tutor at Oxford and was living proof to Sharpe that most education was a waste of effort , for none of Rebecque 's modest good sense had rubbed off on the Prince . |
| 6 | An announcement informed the vacant platform and Rachaela that this train was the London via somewhere , calling at something and elsewhere and who cared at all ? |
| 7 | One of which was the property in Frinton which was owned jointly by Mr and his step mother who was an elderly lady who was then residing in that er property and er around that time on the first of October Mr er telephoned Mr and er told him about that but at that time , was not anticipating that there would be an difficulties about the security on Frinton for these he had always , added his case , made it perfectly clear to the man at the National Westminster Bank with whom he was dealing , Mr that that property was not a property which er could er be offered as security because of the joint ownership and er while in conversation with the bank he understood that this letter had been sent and Mrs had been on holiday and that it was simply oversight on the part of the bank at this stage and that all would well after Mrs returned , which was expected in two weeks time . |
| 8 | Suddenly it dawned on Ramsay that this flag was considerably larger than that flown by the Regent . |
| 9 | The council 's leisure services committee was told by chief leisure officer John Warbrook that more information was needed from other authorities before a decision should be made . |
| 10 | But it may be that even where there is evidence that the patient was mentally unfit or too young , the doctor would still avoid liability , not so much on the basis of the patient 's refusal as on the proposition of Elliott that further treatment was useless , or that of Williams that life had become a burden to the patient . |
| 11 | All this was intended to demonstrate to the king of France that these officials were not the king-duke 's accredited representatives , but merely the delegates of his seneschal . |
| 12 | He even wondered if he ought to suggest to Paul Lexington that that sentence was put on a hoarding outside the theatre , but did n't quite have the nerve . |