Example sentences of "[verb] that [pron] was [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lake sediment records in Ecuador suggest that there was regional flooding of western Amazonia 1300–800 BP , i.e. major hydrological disturbance , which raised the water level as far east as Manaus , while savanna regions seem to have persisted on the northern edge of the basin throughout the late Quaternary . |
| 2 | Now in America , through the nineteen seventies and eighties there 's been increasing concern , an increasing concern that the states were becoming more and more dependent on the federal government and these figures suggest that there was good reasons , this was one of Ronald Reagan 's campaign themes , this was a g a growing concern , he said the federal system has been shattered , it 's , it 's changed its character , the states are now dependent on the federal government and this is dreadful and we must , we must change this . |
| 3 | I am aware of the article to which my hon. Friend refers , which involves a case that was tried in Israel , and of the fact that , apparently , KGB records recently made available in Moscow suggest that there was mistaken identification . |
| 4 | Neither of these relatively crude measures suggest that there was any correlation of degree or duration of oesophageal distention with triggering of transient UOS relaxations . |
| 5 | You might be interested to know that there was considerable narrowing of the arteries , which could have produced spells of dizziness . ’ |
| 6 | The Spirit urged Jesus into the desert , where he resisted the temptations of the Devil , who did not seem to know that he was tempting God himself . |
| 7 | While Synaspismos supported ND in its view that there was serious overpricing and other irregularities in the contracts , it maintained that there was insufficient evidence to allow prosecution . |
| 8 | Veteran miners had claimed that there was good copper in the sole of the shaft when it was left off . |
| 9 | All through this conversation he had the impression that Frank no longer sneered ; and as he went back to Liverpool he was sure that he was more tolerant and sympathetic and ‘ was willing to grant that there was some sense in some of the things which I longed for him to share ’ . |
| 10 | We are therefore not surprised to find that it was this part of his work which most nineteenth-century readers chose to ignore , as any Victorian anthology will prove with its selection of passages relating to Nature . |
| 11 | Napier was not the only sheriff to find that there was more honour than reward in his office , for according to the petition submitted by Erskine of Alva , who had been appointed sheriff-depute of Perthshire in 1748 , his salary of £250 per annum did not take him very far , for his county , |
| 12 | Life between sorties was so organised that there was little opportunity to think . |
| 13 | Although Bush ( hiimself director of the CIA in 1975-76 ) characterized Webster 's tenure as CIA chief as " superb " , it was widely reported that there was considerable dissatisfaction within the US administration , notably over the allegedly poor quality of the agency 's intelligence gathering associated with both the 1991 war against Iraq and the 1989 invasion of Panama . |
| 14 | One study that investigated this idea found that there was little difference between first babies and later ones . |
| 15 | [ His Lordship discussed Ward v. Byham ( above , p. 224 ) and Williams v. Williams ( above , p.218 ) , and pointed out that the other judges in those cases found that there was ample consideration . ] |
| 16 | The jury negatived negligence and found that there was contributory negligence on the plaintiffs ' part , and Hawke J. held that there was no conversion , for the defendants had acted reasonably . |
| 17 | On Tarvaras there were several subject races who spoke a variation of it — perhaps because they were descended from Second Empire colonists — and suddenly Alexei found that there was insufficient subtlety in it to convey precise nuance . |
| 18 | Creeping underneath the ledge , she found that there was enough space for her to nestle safely while she slept off the exhaustion of the last few days . |
| 19 | Quite unexpectedly , we found that there was another type of ganglion cell which we called the on-type directionally selective because , when plotting their receptive fields with a stationary spot , they only responded at onset , unlike the other type I have just illustrated which responded at both onset and offset ; we still do not understand the reason for this , but it led us to discover other differences . |
| 20 | From the extracts to which I have ventured to refer it is clear that equity would have been unlikely to have considered that there was any duty upon the creditors and their solicitors to do more than they in fact did in the circumstances of that case . |
| 21 | First , although rejecting the explanation of creativity that prevailed among medical writers at that time , both Ellis and Bowerman did consider that there was some connection with psychological morbidity , in a more general sense . |
| 22 | Nor did they consider that there was any irrationality in the verdict which the jury gave . |
| 23 | He stepped from the dais and glanced back , only now noticing that the altar stone was n't quite set in place , and that there was a thin gap beneath one end , which seemed to indicate that there was another pit beneath the stone . |
| 24 | Early in the war a postcard was issued at Crewe Station showing women railway workers holding out their hands to indicate that it was clean work . |
| 25 | The wooden houses off Blackfriars Street , already referred to ( p. 51 ) , were ultimately rebuilt at least twice in masonry , and it is interesting to observe that there was little change in the original property boundaries through to post-Roman times , despite changes in use . |
| 26 | When the same question about age limits was addressed in terms of voluntary agencies rather than statutory bodies , it was interesting to observe that there was less tension in the answers . |
| 27 | Duncan was n't too concerned because he soon realized that there was little difference in the policeman 's driving whether he used one hand or two . |
| 28 | It was a meadow ready for cutting and suddenly I realized that it was high summer , the sun was hot and that every step brought the fragrance of clover and warm grass rising about me into the crystal freshness of the air . |
| 29 | She greeted Philip with a kiss , which did n't please Eileen — until she realized that it was common practice . |
| 30 | She sought to ‘ pacify ’ Miss T. and did not think that there was any problem as Miss T. did not need a blood transfusion . |