Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In the exile it was decreed that circumcision was to be the official rite of initiation into Judaism and all that that now meant .
2 Remembering , perhaps , clashes that had taken place in the past between the travellers and the locals , at the next meeting of the parish council it was suggested that advice be taken regarding the legal value of the charter and the legal position concerning trespass on council land .
3 The Minister must be aware that under the 1988 reform package we were assured that intervention stocks would disappear , but they are now at record levels , whether for skimmed milk , butter , beef or cereals .
4 In relation to recording on the file it was held that time spent in preparing typed file and attendance notes should be recorded , and will be recovered , provided that the time spent is not excessive .
5 The ticket he was presented that morning by the silent man in the medium-grey gabardine raincoat was just another ticket .
6 On more than one occasion it was remarked that ship designers tested their designs on duckponds .
7 yeah but erm as I was saying , when we on science this morning we were watching that film about the vitamins
8 For a start he was preaching that assurance was essential for salvation ; that is , you could know within you that you were well and truly saved .
9 There is no doubt that in The Family Reunion he was attempting that re-integration of religious and secular drama which he discussed at the time he was working on the play .
10 Of equal clarity was the passage in the judgment of Willes J in 1871 when in Lee v Bude and Torrington Junction Railway Co. ( 1871 ) LR 6 CP 576 ( in which case it was alleged that Parliament had been induced to pass an Act by fraudulent recitals ) he said , at p. 582 :
11 In addition it was agreed that intelligence and incriminating evidence on drug traffickers would be exchanged between the four countries , which would share any proceeds from seizure or confiscation of drug cartel property .
12 He added that we must be his guests at the great banquet he was holding that night for other Scottish lords who had come south with him .
13 It 's simply the reason it was done that way was to reflect a County Council decision which had been taken fairly recent times on the route of an outer as opposed to an inner .
14 There was a banality colouring all visual material reaching us from New York , and the way we were experiencing that banality through the mass-media was regarded as an essential aspect of it .
15 The third and last time she was wakened that night , it was by the voice of her husband saying , ‘ What it is to have a clear conscience .
16 Do the Bank want to go back to a time when a male official could not get married until he was earning £150 per annum and by the time he was earning that sum he was past having an interest in marriage .
17 Moreover , only a very small segment of jejunum was exposed to the full dose of cholera toxin and because of the rapid binding of the toxin to the mucosa it was presumed that cholera toxin was not available in the distal small bowel to induce secretion .
18 The old building seems to have fallen on hard times , for on September 13th 1976 at a meeting of the owners , the A.P.C.M. , and the Health Dept. it was decided that No. 3 Chapel Houses tenanted by Mr T. Hawkins , was not suitable as living accommodation and the Housing Services Committee placed a Closing Order on the premises .
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