Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In five of them the nitrate level already exceeded 50 mg/litre and it was due to exceed that level in the others by 1991–2004 . |
| 2 | Julia felt better once she was on her feet and when she remembered that Comfort was due to arrive that evening cheered up even more . |
| 3 | Shortly before he was due to deliver that speech on Wednesday — a Burkeian lecture on economic growth and greenery — he realised that he had put some of his best lines in the draft for the Prime Minister 's speech . |
| 4 | ‘ Telfer was right to take that approach . ’ |
| 5 | Unlike Osborn , Matthew was prepared to accept that evolution occurred primarily in response to environmental change , and — unusually for the time — he accepted the theory of natural selection . |
| 6 | So it was that when the defendant was arraigned he pleaded guilty to manslaughter and counsel stated in open court that the Crown was prepared to accept that plea . |
| 7 | But when Mr Leckey asked Dr Lyons if he was prepared to accept that explanation , he replied : ‘ No ’ . |
| 8 | For such men , enclosure of their lands could be the next step ( 62 ) , and it is worth remembering that even John Hales , the mid-sixteenth-century opponent of enclosures , was prepared to admit that enclosure per se was not necessarily evil : his particular concern was with the turning of arable fields into pasture ( 58 , p.180 ) . |
| 9 | He shared his pupils ' impatience with the history side but he was far too polite ever to express this prejudice in my presence — and he was pleased that there was somebody else in the department who was prepared to cover that part of the teaching . |
| 10 | He added : ‘ I was staggered to learn that limestone was to go from Redmire to Redcar by road when we were told in 1988 that British Steel could n't get enough of it and had put on an additional train . |
| 11 | ‘ He was wrong to steal that money ’ is logically inconsistent with ‘ He did not steal the money ’ . |
| 12 | Maurin had challenged her , and she was afraid to meet that challenge . |
| 13 | In Egypt he was delighted to discover that almeh , the word for ‘ bluestocking ’ , had gradually lost this original meaning and come to signify ‘ whore ’ . |
| 14 | It was hard to resist that pressure . |
| 15 | I , too , was privileged to visit that centre and the one at Coombe Cliff , in the company of Margaret Davey , the head of continuing education and training service , and of Barbara Holland , who looks after South Norwood . |
| 16 | Section 17(3) of the Act permits secondary action if ( a ) the purpose or principal purpose of the secondary action was directly to prevent or disrupt the supply during the dispute of goods or services between an employer who is a party to the dispute ( here the ship owners ) and the employer under the contract of employment to which the secondary action relates ( here the port authorities ) ; and ( b ) the secondary action was likely to achieve that purpose . |
| 17 | ‘ ( a ) the purpose or principal purpose of the secondary action was directly to prevent or disrupt the supply during the dispute of goods or services between an employer who is a party to the dispute and the employer under the contract of employment to which the secondary action relates ; and ( b ) the secondary action ( together with any corresponding action relating to other contracts of employment with the same employer ) was likely to achieve that purpose . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Not too bad , ’ came the reply , ‘ but I was glad to get that surplice off and get my trousers back on again . ’ |
| 19 | Mr. Browne did not think it was the job of councils to provide housing , but Mr. Barron was quick to counter that point . |
| 20 | Mrs Richards was quick to declare that education is her highest priority . |
| 21 | Neither of them was competent to do that type of business and they made an expensive mistake . |
| 22 | But it was irrelative to accept that sort of course . |
| 23 | However , on the facts of Lim 's case the House of Lords upheld the decision of the lower courts that it would be possible to obtain the required facilities outside the National Health Service and that it was reasonable to incur that expense . |
| 24 | Paddock opinion agreed that it was ludicrous to imagine that Goodyear would be banned from international racing , a move that would destroy F1 at a stroke . |
| 25 | Parson thought this was ridiculous , but he realized that even days before he would flee , the Shah was unable to acknowledge that power had slid from him like snow from the mountains in spring . |
| 26 | A Welsh Office official was unable to answer that question at a recent conference in Llandrindod Wells . |
| 27 | S O I think that it would be a very special place if it was unable to absorb that amount of development . |
| 28 | And I take this opportunity to say that , erm , I had , I moved this at budget revue , and my intention was to move erm , pretty much the wording that Mr moved at property , but I was unable to obtain that wording by the time of the meeting , so I put this forward , erm , knowing that it obviously was different words , but but with that same sense , that we do have to address some very real issues about County Farms and not to pussyfoot about it I think that er , any comparison between the County Farms and a commercial enterprise is a coincidence of terms , but I ca n't see how we can have forty million pounds worth of estate , as it 's valued on the free market , to be making two hundred and ninety-one thousand pounds a year out of it , and think that that is commercial . |
| 29 | Weber recognized the importance of economics in shaping social reality , but was concerned to demonstrate that culture and religion influenced economic development just as much as economics influenced culture . |
| 30 | A NEW SOUTH WALES insurance firm was puzzled to find that car accidents for one company client peaked on Monday lunchtimes . |