Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [was/were] [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one study of a small group of wrist-slashers it was found that more than half were well , or had shown improvement , 5–6 years later ( Nelson and Grunebaum 1971 ) . |
| 2 | From these relationships it was established that total leakages ( T + S + M ) must equal total injections ( G + I + X ) . |
| 3 | In some areas it was acknowledged that these plots contributed substantially to the food supply . |
| 4 | In some areas it was reported that large numbers of troops had ben deployed to restore order . |
| 5 | In most of the early work on quantity constrained models it was assumed that any observed general unemployment had to be either classical or Keynesian but not both at the same time . |
| 6 | For many years it was accepted that two-tone fish ( it occurs with other species , but rarely ) are the result of winter hibernation , the dark portion of the fish being the part that is buried in bottom mud . |
| 7 | Similarly , for spatial questions it was predicted that more correct responses would occur in association with eye movement to the left rather than the right . |
| 8 | Well I think that when I said that I think that given a man and a woman of equal qualifications I was assuming that that had been taken into account . |
| 9 | In broad terms it was found that British managements had adopted a control system which relied little upon direct managerial intervention and allowed the workforce a greater say in decision-making , essentially as a recognition of the de facto power of trade unions and shopfloor organisation within the industry . |
| 10 | In all six cases it was indicated that sexual intercourse had taken place . |
| 11 | In some cases it was reported that Albanian frontier guards had opened fire on the refugees and that some had been killed . |
| 12 | In a series of tests it was discovered that large predatory fish from the Pacific avoided sea snakes when they were offered as food , but that fish from the Atlantic lacked this caution and attacked them . |
| 13 | Building on current practice in case conferences it was found that one difference was that a network meeting involved the client and unpaid informal or family carers , as well as representatives from statutory and voluntary agencies as appropriate . |