Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] that [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was expecting that at any minute Mum would shout down to find out what was going on but she must have been preoccupied , trying on her new frock . |
| 2 | Later I was told that in criminal trials counsel are not permitted to talk to their witnesses during adjournments . |
| 3 | During my own research into sea dumping at the time , I was told that in 1976 a team from the Atomic Energy Authority had been called in to decontaminate the Topaz , a ship used to dump Belgian waste , after the wrong type of drum container had been used . |
| 4 | The house was full of trend-spotters , from gossip columnist Ivan Warner and irritable feminist Kate Armstrong to Treasury adviser Philip , worried about pension projections in an increasingly elderly society : from information vendor Charles Headleand to epidemiologist Ted Stennett , across whose horizon the science-fiction disease of AIDS was already casting a faint red ominous glow : from forensic psychiatrist Edgar Lintot ( who had not yet heard of AIDS , but who had heard rumours about changing views in high places on the sentencing of the criminally insane ) to Alix Bowen , worried on a mundane level about the future funding of her own job and on a less selfish level about the implications for the rehabilitation of female offenders of cuts in that funding : from theatre director Alison Peacock , anxious about her Arts Council subsidy , to Representative Public Figure , Sir Anthony Bland , the aptly named Chairman ( or so Ivan alleged ) of the Royal Commission on Royal Commissions , who was thinking that for various reasons he might have to resign , and from more bodies than one , before the jostling and the hinting pushed him into an undignified retreat . |
| 5 | In the spring we were all working hard to prepare for the June exams , when we were told that for that year , because of the war , examinations would be abolished . |
| 6 | We were told that in one area there was a high degree of labour turnover among women . |
| 7 | We were told that in 1988 , when life sentences for murder were passed in 150 cases , only 10 minimum recommendations were made . |
| 8 | We were told that after 1948 the revenue sought to tax at least two categories of employees in receipt of in-house benefits . |
| 9 | As beta values were also randomly assigned to portfolios it was assumed that in each case the average beta value would approach unity . |
| 10 | Neither , however , was complete withdrawal of the French from Indo-China for , as it was assumed that in all likelihood Indo-China would be taken over by the militant communist group , at best there might follow a transition period marked by chaos and terrorist activities , which would then create a political vacuum into which the Chinese inevitably would be drawn or pushed . |
| 11 | However , the second notice was clearly given in breach of contract and it was indicated that in any subsequent wrongful dismissal action , damages might include a sum for the loss of the right to claim unfair dismissal to which the employee would have been entitled had the contract been honoured . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , taking World Bank and IDA figures together , and including interest payments by borrowing countries , it was calculated that during fiscal 1991 developing countries had paid back $1,677 million more than they received . |
| 13 | As the Foreign Office was still trying to maintain the secrecy of my visits , it was determined that on this occasion I would be met at Johannesburg airport and driven by road to the Rhodesian border where I would be picked up and conveyed by the Rhodesian authorities . |
| 14 | When the patterns of magnetic anomalies across mid-oceanic ridges were mapped out it was noticed that in several cases the parallel bands of similarly magnetized crust were broken by numerous offsets or displacements which seemed to be aligned approximately at right angles to the axis of the ridge . |
| 15 | In the budget of 1992 it was announced that from 1993/4 onwards any extra married allowance can be claimed in its entirety by either husband or wife , or it can be shared equally between them , thus making the tax system fairer to married women . |
| 16 | In 1988 it was announced that in future government grants in support of housing association projects would fall from 100 per cent to an average of 75 per cent , the balance having to be provided from private sources . |
| 17 | It was decided that about one thousand was right , three hundred to storm the castle itself and the remainder to seal off the approaches thereto for long enough to allow the raiders to achieve their ends and retire back across the ford , it was to be hoped with Edward Balliol dead or alive . |
| 18 | It was decided that from that time on the gypsy , Croat , German , Romanian , Serbian , Slovak , Slovene and Jewish communities would have one representative each in the Országgyüles , but that there would be no church representation . |
| 19 | Despite this , the House of Lords rejected any concept of commercial equivalence so that Lord Atkin held : It was contended that in all commercial contracts the question was whether there was " substantial " compliance with the contract : there must always be some margin and it is for the tribunal of fact to determine whether the margin is exceeded or not . |
| 20 | In the Offer for Sale document published at the time of the Company 's flotation in 1986 , it was stated that in due course consideration would be given to the introduction of a Share Option Scheme for Executive Directors and senior management but that no such scheme would be operated without the prior approval of shareholders and in any event not before 1988 at the earliest . |
| 21 | It was hoped that with some membership changes , and in the interim some re-education of individuals , the new committee would be more realistic in its concern with opportunities for immediate developments . |
| 22 | It was said that at any social gathering one person would be an informer . |
| 23 | Afterwards it was said that at this mission Temple converted Michael Ramsey to decisive Christianity . |
| 24 | It was noted that on two occasions members of the committee collected subscriptions in the treasurer 's absence . |
| 25 | It was noted that of those 35 patients who did not have dermatitis herpetiformis , 15 had attended their general practitioners and hospital outpatient clinics on several occasions over an average period of 28 years ( 0.5–50 years ) with unexplained symptoms or abnormalities in blood tests but the diagnosis of coeliac disease had been missed . |
| 26 | It was noted that without clear identification of needs , programmes can not be evaluated to see how effectively needs have been satisfied , and without evaluation , programmes can not be planned to achieve their objective of effective satisfaction of needs . |
| 27 | It was emphasising that for many people hospital residence is inappropriate and they are simply living there because there is nowhere else for them . |
| 28 | And it was striking that in both instances the referenda did stimulate a serious and extensive debate about the matters which were to be decided on — or at least voted on . |
| 29 | Crudely simplified , majority opinion passed through two well-defined phases in the West : first , it was assumed that war was unthinkable and impossible as a continuation of policy ; later , it was suggested that within certain limits nuclear war might still be winnable , if you were sufficiently prepared . |
| 30 | In January 1990 it was disclosed that in 1976 a meltdown at Greifswald had only narrowly been averted . |