Example sentences of "that [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The establishment of a National Curriculum has certainly been a major historical movement , but it is not the case that nothing was defined prior to 1988 and now everything is defined . |
| 2 | The fact that everyone was waving tiny American flags made this spectacle of labour all the more bizarre . |
| 3 | The Monday evening they phone me up and said that I was to attend another meeting on Tuesday which I believe were the twenty second to which they said , We 've thought about it and we 've decided not to continue your employment . |
| 4 | ‘ I started to feel that I was getting stale . |
| 5 | I sometimes felt that I was taking unfair advantage of the family 's need to talk through their problems with a sympathetic outsider . |
| 6 | People would occasionally point out that I was wearing odd shoes , but it really did n't seem to matter . |
| 7 | ‘ Word had got round that I was wearing red , but I think the guests were relieved when they saw me , and realised my dress was n't too outrageous , ’ says Alison . |
| 8 | That did settle me because it was such a nice feeling to think that I was sharing this memorable day with the rest of my family . |
| 9 | The fact that I had never seen my aunt looking so elegant added to my impression that I was imagining this . |
| 10 | I am no less interested to observe that , for Eliot , who always seemed unhurried , ‘ there is plenty of time ’ could mean a period of not much more than three weeks for reading ( the Strachey book being pretty long ) , writing typing and dispatching : which , given the fact that Spender 's book had not arrived , that I was teaching all day and conducting some evening classes , I still consider a tight fit . |
| 11 | For several years that basic idea of using a flight simulator kept coming up in my mind and it was in 1974 , after I had attended the meeting of the Accident Investigation Division of ICAO in Montreal , that I was discussing this same problem with Bernard Caiger of the Canadian National Research Council . |
| 12 | She saw that I was looking pale and vacant and told me to sit down . |
| 13 | ‘ I had no idea that I was entering such a Hall of Fame , ’ he went on , and was about to enjoy a ride on an air bubble of loquacity when Mrs Robinson addressed a cat and the cat said ‘ No ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ No , but I ca n't say that I was paying much attention . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Then one day it dawned on me that I was running scared and it was silly . |
| 16 | Somebody had been her , fetching me to see that I was playing truant , landed in school . |
| 17 | I suddenly realized that I was going mad too , that he was wickedly wickedly cunning . |
| 18 | ‘ For selfish reasons , I was upset and annoyed that I was left alone . |
| 19 | You knew before you shut your door in my face last night that I was having second thoughts ! ’ |
| 20 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
| 21 | There were moments when he took on too much ; and although I pursued the matter of our volume only because he had invited me to do so , I soon realized that I was asking more than I should have done , especially as I was uncertain at any moment whether my collaborators saw eye to eye with me about the scope of our project . |
| 22 | He made me know that I was growing old , and that everything he was was slipping out of my hands . |
| 23 | We investigates and discovered that I was carrying more than half a litre of cyst . |
| 24 | I knew that if the handle moved faster it would sound better , so I really exerted every ounce of my miserable muscle power and the handle jerked forward with such force that I was lifted clean off the ground . |
| 25 | I used to go into a shop and I 'd shake and I 'd know that I was doing wrong and I 'd be really scared and I 'd just knew I do n't want to go to prison so I decide to stop it . |
| 26 | Oh yes you told me this that I was doing hard labour and he said I was building the building . |
| 27 | Until recently , I was just amazed that I was doing this with a reasonable amount of success . |
| 28 | ‘ I knew that I was doing evil things , but I could not stop myself . |
| 29 | It must have been in the late 1960s or early 1970s that I was bemoaning this problem with my French colleague Michel Vigier who was also disturbed at the prospect of being snowed under with an indigestible amount of data from DFDRs . |
| 30 | Now , my theory that I was proposing last week about preferential parental investment in sexy sons or little boys who showed phallic behaviour , is a consequence of the Trivers Willard principle , because basically what it says is that little boys who advertised , as it were , in their childhood , evidence of their own adult reproductive success by precocious sexuality towards the women of the family and aggression towards the males , might be rewarded by preferential parental investment , a Trivers Willard effect in other words , and if , when they grew up , those oedipal sexy sons were in fact more reproductively successful , then the result would be a kind of self-perpetuating cycle of parental investment in oedipal sons who then grew up to be more reproductively successful than non-oedipal sons and , and so on . |