Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't wait to get to grips with the famous putter and was duly grateful that the Friday afternoon traffic was reasonably light , with fewer than usual kamikaze lorry drivers about . |
| 2 | I was duly surprised that the Fates had put the new putter in my hands so easily . |
| 3 | And yet de Gaulle himself was remarkably confident that the army would toe the line . |
| 4 | But I was dead sure that the last item would take some getting round to . |
| 5 | If anything , it was rather suspicious that the first assay should produce an answer so apt ; the prognostics of bishops were often known to be ambiguous in the extreme . |
| 6 | Even so , I was rather surprised that a family must pay 3.50 for adults and 2.50 for kids to visit and listen to the BBC 's exhibition of favourite old radio programmes at Broadcasting House . |
| 7 | The ever-anxious Ford had been appointed to replace Major Richard Sharpe as commanding officer of the battalion , which of itself was cause for the Colonel to worry , for Joseph Ford was keenly aware that the Rifleman had been a most competent and experienced soldier . |
| 8 | In the meantime , however , he was most keen that the staff of his predecessor — a staff of which he had heard high praise — be retained at Darlington Hall . |
| 9 | ‘ But he was most keen that the thing should n't go on and on like it usually does . ’ |
| 10 | It was most fortunate that a young Cambridge biologist called Mark Pryor was extricated by the powers that be from a searchlight unit and sent to Farnborough to take over this work . |
| 11 | ‘ So I see , ’ said Sophia , unable to keep a note of indignation out of her tone , for it was most disquieting that the man she intended for her sister 's husband should be discovered filling the hot water bottle of another woman . |
| 12 | Of course , it was most important that no one should see Colin , Mary , or Dickon entering the secret garden . |
| 13 | It was most unlikely that an American-Soviet agreement would be forthcoming and this strengthened the case for broadening discussion on Korea . |
| 14 | She was acutely aware that the whole ambience of the boat had changed . |
| 15 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |
| 16 | Battle-weary after the 4 hour 42 minute match , which had finished , it was little wonder that the two of them embraced at the net as 15,000 rose as one to acclaim such magnificent entertainment . |
| 17 | This was Renault 's fourth year with Williams and it was abundantly clear that the two companies had created a rarely achieved relationship between chassis builder and engine manufacturer , based on mutual respect and a firm resolve to win . |
| 18 | It was somewhat ironic that the Home Office moved from its traditional defence of political liberty into a law and order stance just as the main police spokesman was advocating more liberal and socially aware arguments . |
| 19 | Folly tried to flinch away , but he was so close that every movement seemed to bring him closer . |
| 20 | ‘ The missile was so close that the warning system in the cab illuminated and fired off defensive flares , ’ he said . |
| 21 | In fact the man 's examination of his papers was so cursory that a lot of Hapsburg ingenuity had evidently been wasted . |
| 22 | But that still leaves unanswered the more basic issue as to whether the whole Marxist enterprise was so wrong-headed that the economic and human failures were not , in some sense , built into the ideology . |
| 23 | I 'd say oh yes , you know but , still could n't get me to go in the Guild and er , it was so strange that the , I ca n't remember , I think I 've been in the Guild about twenty-five years so you 'll have to do your own little sum . |
| 24 | As seen , Lord Greene M.R. in the Wednesbury case conceived of unreasonableness in its substantive sense , as a long stop and a fairly extreme one at that : if an exercise of discretion successfully negotiated the hurdles of improper purpose and relevancy it could still be invalidated on the altar of substantive unreasonableness if it was so unreasonable that no reasonable body could reach such a decision . |
| 25 | When the Jesuits were expelled from the city in September 1773 public resentment was so real that the entire garrison had to occupy key points and patrol the streets to maintain order . |
| 26 | I 'm sorry , ’ he repeated , and the smile he gave her was so gentle that the angry words she had been going to utter died , locked somewhere in her throat . |
| 27 | The danger of a break through the northern end of the spit was so apparent that a sea wall was built along this section in 1890 . |
| 28 | Gary Speed was close twice and when Deane looked like bullocking through , David Burrow 's tackle was so desperate that the left back was booked . |
| 29 | He did not meet his mother from infancy until the age of twelve , when they found themselves accidentally in the same workhouse : but instead of the ‘ gush of tenderness ’ between them of which he had dreamt , ‘ her expression was so chilling that the valves of my heart closed as with a snap … |
| 30 | He could n't fathom why she was so anxious that no one else should know of his interest in her . |