Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [that] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With heroic individual exceptions , both the Protestant and Catholic churches supported Hitler and , in East Germany in particular , were determined that such a thing should never happen again . |
| 2 | It was argued that such a system would generally be more favourable to employees and would be more likely to curb ‘ the exercise of managerial prerogative in the interests of individual job retention as well as avoiding the tendency to legalism ’ . |
| 3 | He was told that such a reference might cause embarrassment to some of the pupils . |
| 4 | It was found that such a restriction would prevent employees from being associated with a manufacturer of single-sided printed circuit boards and yet it was only in relation to multi-layered printed circuit boards that the plaintiff had any interest . |
| 5 | Soon afterwards it was believed that such a planet had been discovered in transit across the Sun . |
| 6 | It was hoped that such a survey would throw some light on the contemporary landscape in the late Saxon period and perhaps locate earthworks associated with the early monastery . |
| 7 | An opinion was expressed that such a purchaser under a suspensory condition ( that the money be only handed over on the certificate being got by the purchaser ) is not necessarily committing a violation of the Act , " assuming that he shows proper diligence in endeavouring to obtain the certificate , and is acting throughout in bona fide " : per Lord Trayner , ibid . |
| 8 | He was hoping that such a system of signs , reflecting English usage and grammar , might be acceptable as a tool for teaching to oralist teachers . |
| 9 | It was realized that such a policy risked leaving Soviet Russia as the dominant force in a post-Nazi Europe . |
| 10 | In MacTaggart v B&G Strump 10 TC 17 , decided before s 89 was enacted , it was held that such a payment was a capital payment . |
| 11 | It was held that such a grant where the application was for a full new licence constitutes a refusal and can be competently the subject of an appeal under 5.17(4) . |