Example sentences of "[that] [adv] [art] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought that presumably the bill was still divided proportionately between the countries . |
| 2 | As far as the army was concerned , I had been told in October 1945 that effectively the matter was ended with the presumption of death . |
| 3 | But then I thought that perhaps an accident was awaiting me or one of my relatives . |
| 4 | But if you do have pe people will say if you do h have those weaknesses and if er there were times that he could was quite up to the joshing and the name calling , there were times when he was n't , the very fact that there were times when he was n't , does n't that tell you that perhaps the Army was n't the place for him ? |
| 5 | But then it occurred to him that perhaps the joke was Nicola 's and not Blufton 's at all , some invention to impress her boss and ensure her succession to Jane Pargeter 's job . |
| 6 | Not quite a woman — because I wanted to do things with Gittel that only a man was supposed to want to do ; not quite a man — because I wanted Gittel to do the same things back to me . ’ |
| 7 | An attempt by Daily Mail journalists to broaden the paper 's political coverage of the 1983 election was rejected on the grounds that only the editor was responsible for content and that outside pressure , if only from an organization 's own journalists , amounted to interference in the running of that organization . |
| 8 | It had been thought that only the penalty was prescribed by statute , just as the penalty for murder is laid down by Parliament . |
| 9 | This is the only company whose entire membership appears to have figured in the loan ; in the case of such as the Goldsmiths and the Ironmongers it seems clear that only the livery was assessed . |
| 10 | If you put down the example I I actually marked the example but then I realized going back through the book that obviously the example was given for you there anyway . |
| 11 | But in a short while , once he was gone from the house , she 'd have to go upstairs and read to her daughter and she knew that already the child was sensitive to her feelings : she would say , ‘ You sad , Mammy ? ’ or ‘ You vexed with me , Mammy ? ’ |
| 12 | I have a suspicion that somehow the heating was on by the time they reached their new destination . |
| 13 | Sid patiently tutored me on star gradings and assured me that technically the climb was only a V. Diff , so I would cope ! |
| 14 | This was welcomed by the head of the Open Software Foundation in Japan , Dr Rob Morel , who ventured that possibly the Foundation was better positioned than before as a ‘ truly independent standards organisation ’ . |
| 15 | Denktash , however , was critical of the government 's links with the EC and the prospects of an application for membership , claiming that once an application was formalized the government would have closed the door on reunification talks . |
| 16 | He had never cried when he was struck , and Boyd felt with a desolate pang that probably the boy was wiser and braver than he was . |
| 17 | I recently had a liver transplant at Addenbrooke 's Hospital and still feel guilty that inevitably the decision was made to give me a liver rather than someone else whose life expectancy may have been marginally longer . |
| 18 | Whoever was on duty would move gently any part of the affected limb , trying as they did so to persuade Jimbo that now the pain was gone he might — I did not dare to say ‘ would ’ — be free soon to walk normally . |
| 19 | The clenched fist still swung at his side , and without easing his grip , he twisted her arm so that now the pain was terrible to endure . |
| 20 | She was longing for some peace and privacy , believing that now the wedding was over she would slip back into relative obscurity . |
| 21 | It seemed that now the process was under way her contribution was not required . |
| 22 | I did not mind that often the work was well below what I felt certain I could do . |
| 23 | The need to rely on the local aristocracy — common to all rulers — was accentuated by the fact that often the pope was chosen from among their number . |
| 24 | My grandfather , an old sailor , told me nearly 70 years ago that originally the expression was ‘ No room to swing a cot , ’ meaning a ship 's hammock . |
| 25 | We 've got two officer 's for example who are leading on working the young people in the town , Youth Development Officer 's er we , the Local Government Unit has a policy team initiated work on the youth policy , and this arose out of erm a member seminar 's , September eighty nine , where er the members felt that really the Council was n't doing enough for young people , that we as a Council , not not to think about young in the way we deliver our services and it was felt that we needed to go out and talked to young people , which we did in the winter of that year , erm and find out what they wanted from us , and the res as a result of that , that , that policy , and that consultation exercise has now developed into a front line service where we have two people full time working with young people in the town and that 's on various things , graffiti project , the underpasses in the town we , which have got graffiti type I mean I know there not everybody 's cup of tea , but I mean they way . |
| 26 | A modern mind may well feel that even the hint was too much . |
| 27 | The difference between this and Helby v. Matthews is that here the customer was committed to making all the payments and therefore to acquiring ownership of the goods . |
| 28 | This word anamnesis meant the past invading the present , so that here the past was relived and appropriated . |
| 29 | Halphen , who edited the text , believed that here the author was drawing on a vernacular epic ; this may well have been so , for in the late eleventh-century manuscript of the Song of Roland , Geoffrey featured as Charlemagne 's standard-bearer . |
| 30 | He chuckled inwardly , thinking that maybe the boy was not altogether lost to him . |