Example sentences of "[v-ing] [be] that [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they 're saying is that Colin was purely administration . |
| 2 | What I am saying is that Mills was one of the MI6 officers with responsibility for WIN . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose that what you 're really saying is that Guy was attracted to me because he could pretend I was a boy ! ’ |
| 4 | The point I am making is that Poland was like some living body that had all the life blood sucked out of it at the end of the war . ’ |
| 5 | What is striking is that Peada was baptized by Fínán , Aidan 's successor as bishop of Lindisfarne , at Ad Murum in the vicinity of Hadrian 's Wall , and that he took back with him four priests , Cedd , Adda , Betti and Diuma , to work among the Middle Angles , the Irishman Diuma receiving consecration from Fínán , according to Bede , as bishop of the Middle Angles and the Mercians ( HE 111 , 13 ) . |