Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] that [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compared with Barry 's Board of Trade , the Broad Sanctuary houses were hideous and it ‘ would excite one 's horror , if one were to imagine that any portion of London was to be covered with such edifices ’ . |
| 2 | The judges , with the concurrence of the Inns of Court , resolved when these arrangements were created that disciplinary powers over barristers should be exercised in accordance with the regulations governing the new Senate , and by those regulations a committee of the Senate , known as the disciplinary tribunal , exercised those powers . |
| 3 | Despite the temptation to accumulate treasure it was recognized that one way of stimulating gifts was to spend a sizable proportion on the further embellishment of buildings and the enrichment of furnishings and vestments . |
| 4 | In order to meet these requirements , it was realised that some form of detector-operated system would be essential , and this led to the development of the zoned system in which open sprinklers were used , mounted vertically one above the other on a drop pipe and fed from a ‘ zone control valve ’ which was opened directly by the response of the detector to the fire . |
| 5 | It was recommended that three acres of this ground should be purchased . |
| 6 | During the Christmas revolution , it was claimed that Arab guerrillas in training camps formed the core of the last defenders of Ceauşescu 's regime . |
| 7 | His first step was to request that all copies of the European Vehicle and Components ’ Plan be withdrawn from circulation . |
| 8 | The main point of the Porter analysis was to establish that that form of information was fundamental to any strategic analysis . |
| 9 | In the 1992 syllabus review it was clarified that vertical groups including associates held by subsidiaries were examinable in this paper . |
| 10 | On May 13th at a meeting of a special sub-committee , it was reported that various articles of furniture had been found in the master 's apartments . |
| 11 | Shortly after Abe 's arrest it was reported that other members of the Miyazawa faction were being questioned in connection with the affair . |
| 12 | Over in Xian , it was reported that two postgraduates of the Northwestern University were assaulted by the children of a well-placed professor . |
| 13 | In August 1989 it was reported that 13,600 people in Dumfries and Galloway had been supplied with water containing up to 1,000 times the EC limit for aluminium , starting in March 1989 . |
| 14 | By 1900 it was reported that 500,000 households in England and Wales had been visited . |
| 15 | On April 27 it was reported that Russian Minister for Nationalities Valery Tishkov and Horst Waffenschmidt , German representative for immigration , had initialled a protocol on co-operation in the restoration of the Russian Germans ' autonomous republic on the Volga , which had been eliminated under Stalin in 1941 . |
| 16 | It was reported that Laotian rebels on June 14 captured three government military positions after heavy fighting in the north-east of the country . |
| 17 | In some areas it was reported that large numbers of troops had ben deployed to restore order . |
| 18 | Also in December it was reported that secret trials of Beijing students who had participated in the protests had begun . |
| 19 | It was reported that Cuban resales of Soviet oil , an important source of foreign currency , had dropped from a peak of almost US$600,000,000 in 1985 to US$180,000,000 in 1989 . |
| 20 | On Jan. 24 it was reported that 28 members of the Interim Legislative Assembly had taken their seats . |
| 21 | It was reported that basic agreement on the settlement of the debt was reached in February 1991 [ see p. 38009 ] , with capital repayment postponed for 10 years , but with interest payments in 1991-95 . |
| 22 | For those universities producing the largest numbers of theses , it was considered that personal visits to their libraries for examination of the consultation records was desirable , so as also to study storage conditions , ease of access , and to discuss regulations on access , loan , and copying with the relevant library staff . |
| 23 | It was expected that some sort of legal action would follow . |
| 24 | This striking result led to further investigations , and it was noticed that one drop of the diluted nasal mucus added to 1 c.c. of a thick suspension of the cocci caused their complete disappearance in a few minutes at 37°C . |
| 25 | In the previous section , it was argued that major contributions to the growth of scientific knowledge come about either when a bold conjecture is confirmed or when a cautious conjecture is falsified . |
| 26 | By the turn of the century it was accepted that certain parts of the brain were specialized for either sensation or movement but , as Brodmann ( in Kolb and Whishaw 1985 ) demonstrated , there are large areas of the human cerebral cortex that are neither obviously motor nor sensory . |
| 27 | In her case it was accepted that many women in their 20s are involved in child birth and looking after children with the consequences that they are out of the employment market . |
| 28 | Once it was accepted that this kind of question could be raised , the way was open to the conclusion that the Bible should simply be treated as a collection of ancient religious literature with no special claims to be heard or accepted except where it happened to express some general religious ‘ principle ’ that could be recognised as universally valid — the kernel within the husk . |
| 29 | With the surrender of Germany and Turkey 's entry into the war , it was felt that one phase of our work was done , and that at last we could go home . |
| 30 | Regarding section 42 , it was felt that recent moves by the Fair Employment Commission to challenge this through the High Court will have an effect , if only to force the government to justify its use of this section . |