Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | It seems that in compensation it was agreed that Italy should build a hospital in Ethiopa . |
| 5 | At the same Council it was decreed that Wycliffe 's remains should be exhumed and burned , which they were . |
| 6 | Following on from such work it was suggested that drugs which tend to increase the activity of acetylcholine might improve learning and memory . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At about the second hour of day I was told that Kenamun would be leading the investigation . |
| 12 | Only the unmarried mother was given specific mention ; for the rest it was assumed that women would follow their husbands . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | The next day it was reported that Henry VIII was ‘ sorry for the death of Mr Redman his mason ’ . |
| 18 | On the one hand he was receiving advice from Cardinal Barberini ( later Pope Urban VIII ) that he should steer clear of theological issues ; on the other he was advised that Cardinal Bellarmine would welcome his comments on a passage in Psalm 18 that appeared inconsistent with Copernican doctrine . |
| 19 | Last month it was revealed that Di was taped speaking on the phone to bachelor James Gilbey , who told her ‘ I love you . ’ |
| 20 | The following month it was announced that Dulles would specialise on matters concerning the peace treaty and Truman approved arrangements for Dulles to visit Japan and Korea in June in order to confer with MacArthur and the Japanese government . |
| 21 | An inquiry into the killing of over 50 striking workers in Gdansk in December 1970 led in December 1990 to the arrest of three generals and five colonels , and in the same month it was announced that investigations were being held into the introduction of martial law in 1981 . |
| 22 | Last month it was announced that Britain will get its first new-wave trams in 1991 . |
| 23 | The day after the announcement of the new travel policy it was revealed that Bush 's former Education Secretary , Lauro Cavazos , was under criminal investigation for the abuse of air travel privileges whilst in office . |
| 24 | The learned abbot , Lupus of Ferrières , consoling the layman Einhard on the death of his wife , pointed out that God had allowed Absalom to be killed despite the prayers of David ; and Agobard , archbishop of Lyon , writing against superstition , asked Louis the Pious what use it was to suppose that God would always show up the just in judicial ordeals , when he had allowed Josiah to perish in battle against the Egyptians . |
| 25 | In the past it was felt that women and their health services were neglected , But now I think we are neglecting men 's health needs . ’ |
| 26 | From the outset it was envisaged that board members would require training to carry out these functions and a range of training materials was developed . |
| 27 | In the survey of secondary schools by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate it was found that schools resorted to short- or longer-term exclusion of pupils ‘ only when absolutely necessary and then with reluctance ’ . |
| 28 | In a story in yesterday 's Daily Mirror it was claimed that Arsenal centre-half Andy Linighan made the remark , including a comment about Adolf Hitler , after he refused to pay the fare to taxi driver Harry Levy . |
| 29 | In the Allied Dunbar ( Frank Weisinger ) case it was confirmed that sale purchase covenants will be construed less stringently than employee 's covenants . |
| 30 | In this case it was held that payments from an overseas discretionary trust came within Case V of Schedule D. Lord Wrenbury at p541 stated : The test … is … whether there is such an interest in a foreign possession that the party assessed derives income from it . |