Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] was [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was decided that Oliver would help Sikes with the robbery in two days ' time . |
| 2 | And if by doing so it was to ensure that people who are already resident in this area are driven , this would be a totally inadequate response to the needs of the people of North Yorkshire . |
| 3 | Thus it was argued that William had a legitimate title to the throne because he won it by right of conquest in a just war . |
| 4 | But generally it was felt that mothers could be relied upon to exert themselves on behalf of their children and that mismanagement resulted more from ignorance than from vice . |
| 5 | During the inter-war period what trade union support there was for family allowances ( generally it was feared that allowances would lead to a wholesale reduction in wages and reduce the bargaining power of male workers ) , was based on the hope that they would lead to a withdrawal of married women from the workforce . |
| 6 | But yesterday it was revealed that lawyers for the survivors , victims ' families , the airline , Boeing and three companies that made the engines have agreed payments will not be restricted . |
| 7 | Yesterday it was revealed that PC Hall escaped death by a whisker when he was shot at point-blank range . |
| 8 | Also it was hoped that investors ( eg pension funds ) would put their money into property for letting , assured of a reasonable return . |
| 9 | It was also difficult for a man who was in debt to be truthful ; hence it was said that lying rode on debt 's back . |
| 10 | Eight months later it was announced that Nagy and his colleagues were to be rehabilitated . |
| 11 | Four days later it was announced that Tsedenbal had been stripped of his membership of the Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League . |
| 12 | It transpired that Peter Carrington and his Foreign Office team of Humphrey Atkins and Richard Luce had all resigned , and a little later it was announced that Francis Pym was to take over as Foreign Secretary . |
| 13 | Until now it was assumed that sites deep underground provided a stable environment for buried waste . |
| 14 | , writes : MANY years ago I was told that Colgate toothpaste was made from pebbles from Chesil Beach , Dorset . |
| 15 | Well it was understood that Bisses got most of theirs from restaurants , and all restaurants I think had to sort of hand over all their waste for the war or something . |
| 16 | Then I was told that girls were being taken on the railways so I had to go to Ipswich and take two more exams and started work as a booking clerk at Needham Station when I was sixteen . |
| 17 | Then it was arranged that Hoare should on the way spend a day or so in Paris talking to Laval , who was temporarily Prime Minister as well as Foreign Minister of France . |
| 18 | Then it was discovered that birds such as pigeons and swifts have difficulty navigating if their sense of smell is damaged . |
| 19 | Then it was rumoured that Haj Amin al-Husseini , the Grand Mufti , was travelling from his postwar sanctuary in Lebanon to Acre and there was an ambush at Insherah on the bus believed to be carrying him . |
| 20 | Then it was agreed that Mrs Kemp would deal with all new cases . |
| 21 | By then it was agreed that Karen would do temporary work until she came to Hillmarden House in November . |
| 22 | Recently it was believed that morale had declined and that only firm Soviet and North Korean police rule was preventing defections . |
| 23 | Until recently it was reckoned that men and women on average had sex with 6 different people in their lifetime . |
| 24 | Occasionally it was conceded that New York had elements of sophistication but it was widely appreciated that film tastes and standards were determined in the populous and philistine Midwest . |
| 25 | Therefore it was supposed that payments practices , and other institutional arrangements which change only slowly over time , have more influence on the velocity of circulation than any temporary changes in M. Before the First World War there may have been a good deal of truth in this assumption because the financial system was relatively unsophisticated and financial innovation was taking place very slowly by today 's standards . |