Sentence examples for was pretended that from inspiring English sources

By then, the giggles must have changed to Jovian laughter: Kaplan told me he has a number of lawyers in his family and so it was pretended that this permission to look at my archive had mysteriously de-authorized the Clemons book and my own as well.

For a while, it was pretended that Claudius was still alive, with all of those involved in the plot (including Halotus) undertaking their normal duties.

Not even Mr. Romney's own strategists are pretending that is going to be simple.

The government was pretending that the country was not at war.

Boyle said neither he nor Dubinsky was pretending that either player looked very handsome.

I was pretending that I was a hunter shooting a gun, except it was just my hands.

It can no longer be pretended that this avenue of research is "necessary".

It cannot be pretended that an assured and entirely satisfactory answer can be given to such questions.

It is pretended that carbides in the CHT steel are cementite while those in the DCT steels are η-carbide.

Critics of the military interventions of the past decade may welcome this, but it should not be pretended that this is anything but a big change in defence posture.

Almost nobody is pretending that this is a desirable outcome.