Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adj] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was made aware that nuclear weapons were no substitute for the presence of frigates on station and infantry battalions on the ground in maintaining stability in Afro-Asia . |
| 2 | It was made clear that such tasks could be carried out very quickly and easily using the computer . |
| 3 | It was made clear that all missioners , superintendents and hearing clergymen interested in deaf people were cordially invited to attend . |
| 4 | Since the infra-red reflectance is strongly linked to the presence of water it was thought possible that unfiltered readings might not show the same decline — since to the eye at least the area does not decline until the onset of withering , which occurs only at a much later stage . |
| 5 | Clearly , this kind of work would not be undertaken unless it was thought possible that causal relationships between variables might exist , just as a medical researcher might hypothesize a causal relationship between cigarette smoking and lung cancer , or as a historical linguist might hypothesize that a contributory cause of palatalization of [ k ] is an adjacent front vowel . |