Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] was [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the previous chapter it was suggested that policies are complex phenomena which are hard to define with any precision . |
| 2 | Moreover , in a recent study it was suggested that aging is associated with increasing gastrin and pepsinogen secretion in humans , particularly in men . |
| 3 | In other words it was recognised that community care is not necessarily , and not for ail , a cheaper form of care . |
| 4 | In nineteenth-century Queensland it was claimed that Devons produced as much beef per acre as Herefords or Shorthorns and also produced a good proportion of lean meat to fat when crossed with the Shorthorn . |
| 5 | On the economic side it was believed that customs union , by creating healthy competition and allowing for large-scale production , would have a dynamic effect , leading to higher growth and better living standards . |
| 6 | In February he was told that Britain would probably be invading Norway soon , but his pleas to be in place beforehand fell on deaf ears . |
| 7 | In May it was reported that Jacinto Granda de Laserna , a section head in the PCC 's department of revolutionary orientation and former editor of the Young Communist journal Juventud Rebelde , had become editor of the party daily , Granma . |
| 8 | It seems that in compensation it was agreed that Italy should build a hospital in Ethiopa . |
| 9 | At the same Council it was decreed that Wycliffe 's remains should be exhumed and burned , which they were . |
| 10 | Following on from such work it was suggested that drugs which tend to increase the activity of acetylcholine might improve learning and memory . |
| 11 | In late July it was announced that Morocco 's air force was to be upgraded through the purchase of 20 F-16 fighter aircraft , worth in total US$250,000,000 , and drawn from United States air force stocks . |
| 12 | Later in July it was reported that factories in some regions , facing the unaccustomed pressure to make a profit , were refusing to lend out their workers to provide the usual help in bringing in the potato and vegetable harvests . |
| 13 | For four decades it was supposed that Hicks 's model contained all of the basic ingredients of the General Theory approach to the theory of employment . |
| 14 | As security it was agreed that Mr. O'Brien would guarantee the payment by the company of its indebtedness and that his liability under the guarantee would be secured by a second charge over the house which was believed to have an equity of about £100,000 . |
| 15 | In the recession of the early 1980s this service suffered immensely through poor sales and ultra high terminations — in those days it was said that washroom would be the hardest hit in any recession because it was not seen as an essential service ; much confidence was , then lost in the service . |
| 16 | In November it was announced that exports of coffee — of which Angola was the fourth largest producer in the world before independence — were less than half those expected . |
| 17 | In early November it was reported that fighters affiliated with the Iranian-backed ( Shia ) Hezb-i-Wahdat faction were engaged in bloody clashes with government forces loyal to Defence Minister Ahmed Shah Masud . |
| 18 | In the September 1981 party conference it was revealed that Healey had indeed won , by the narrowest of margins , with 50.3 per cent of the popular vote ; the star of Tony Benn began to dim somewhat thereafter , not least because Michael Foot was able subtly to mount a movement of the old ( or ‘ soft ’ ) constitutionally-minded left against the ‘ hard left ’ of the neo-Marxist , unilateralist fringe . |
| 19 | In Ceylon it was discovered that mountain areas could produce fresh vegetables which could be conveyed from local stations to Colombo to provision passing ocean liners . |
| 20 | At this same meeting it was reported that Charles Vial had presented 10 copies of his plan of 19 March 1790 , for establishing an institution to cultivate and teach veterinary medicine , for which thanks were to be transmitted by the secretary . |
| 21 | At a recent meeting it was disclosed that £350,000 was needed — just to bring its electrics and equipment into line with the Health and Safety Act . |
| 22 | In the early post-war years it was believed that investment expenditures were not very responsive to changes in interest rates , and most of the empirical evidence at the time , seemed to support this view . |
| 23 | For many years it was considered that tea-bags were filled only with tea dust , the fine residue left after the sorting and packaging of tea , and that the drink obtained by using bags was therefore of very inferior quality . |
| 24 | At about the second hour of day I was told that Kenamun would be leading the investigation . |
| 25 | Only the unmarried mother was given specific mention ; for the rest it was assumed that women would follow their husbands . |
| 26 | On 27 December Babrak Karmal , who had been a member of the post-coup government but who had subsequently been exiled to the USSR , announced that the former president had been deposed and that he had taken power ; the following day it was announced that Hafizullah Amin had been executed for ‘ crimes against the noble people of Afghanistan ’ . |
| 27 | The following day it was revealed that Bering had chipped a bone in a knee during the race , but such was the power of his acceleration as he took up the running that he could hardly have been affected until the very final stages . |
| 28 | The astonishing show of support came on the day it was revealed that tapes of an intimate phone call between Di and a male friend are almost certainly genuine . |
| 29 | On the same day it was reported that efforts to impose the state of emergency regulations were being hampered by mass civil disobedience , with demonstrations and road blocks slowing the movement of the newly arrived military units from airfields at Yevlakh and Gendzhe ( Azerbaijan 's second largest city , formerly Kirovabad ; it had been given back its pre-Soviet name on Dec. 30 ) . |
| 30 | The next day it was reported that Henry VIII was ‘ sorry for the death of Mr Redman his mason ’ . |