Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it was seen that all clan chiefs had taken the oath , Dalrymple was frustrated , but not for long . |
| 2 | It was assumed that all learning could be reduced to a series of conditioned reflexes . |
| 3 | In the British Army , discipline was centred around self-discipline , and it was assumed that each man had enough self-discipline to carry out an order without being told twice . |
| 4 | In 1990 , it was assumed that each assistant would average twenty items a minute ( Cutter and Rowe 1990 ) . |
| 5 | The widespread nature of the process took people by surprise ; it was assumed that metropolitan growth was a permanent feature of modern society . |
| 6 | It was assumed that any erosion terraces would show as modes in the frequency distribution . |
| 7 | The late fifties and early sixties , when I lived in Windsor Great Park , were creative and critical in manner : the established order was questioned ( sometimes cynically ) , but it was assumed that well-directed idealism could change human society . |
| 8 | In all six cases it was indicated that sexual intercourse had taken place . |
| 9 | It was concluded that bilateral speech representation applied only to strong left handers with left handed relatives . |
| 10 | It was concluded that low cost tools have limitations but can provide useful experience to system builders that allows for the critical selection of more advanced software . |
| 11 | It was concluded that some platinum enrichment is related to primary magmatic differentiation but that many of the high values , particularly of palladium and gold , are the product of later alteration associated with deformation . |
| 12 | In a broad-scale study of cloud forests , it was concluded that random colonization had played an important part in determining the species compositions of different ones and that the predominance of widespread species of successional habitats elsewhere reflected a high rate of generalist dispersal . |
| 13 | In Chapter 3 it was argued that pre-colonial society was indeed authoritarian , and that this expressed itself in a great stress on the conformity of the individual , and on a hierarchy of relationships between young and old , between chiefs and people and between men and women . |
| 14 | First , it was argued that local government was financially dependent on the centre , and that ‘ he who pays the piper calls the tune ’ . |
| 15 | While this is a notoriously difficult problem , it was argued that some progress can be made . |
| 16 | On behalf of the defendant it was argued that some limitation had to be placed on the word " practice " and the natural and proper limitation was to imply the words " as medical practitioners " . |
| 17 | It was argued that this arrangement would make the scheme more popular both with contributors and with advocates of self-help , since contributors would appear to be financing their own benefits , whilst experiencing a form of training in saving . |
| 18 | It was argued that supply-side economics offered most to the politicians , whereas theories of political business cycles suggest an ‘ incentive ’ but perhaps little real ability to manipulate the economy to secure re-election . |
| 19 | It was believed that similar action would follow very quickly in Scotland , where the Child Care Law Review was nearing completion . |
| 20 | At this time , it was believed that female genitalia were merely internal versions of the male , with the clitoris being a tiny penis , and it was the greater heat of the male that had expelled his organs . |
| 21 | It was believed that this intervention would be aided if the state had control of certain key industries ( eg coal , railways , gas , electricity distribution ) , which were crucial to post-war economic recovery and which were in such a rundown state that it was unlikely that sufficient private capital would materialise to rejuvenate them . |
| 22 | It was believed that this area offered more opportunities for conversion into convenient living space . |
| 23 | It was believed that Colombian drug cartels , harried by the Colombian authorities , had shifted their operations across the border to take advantage of the sophisticated Venezuelan banking system which made the business side of drug trafficking difficult to detect . |
| 24 | In this endeavour the planners had support in Council since it was believed that national legislation had to be enforced and the result was that Orcadians suffered delays or refusals in their building applications . |
| 25 | It was calculated that each child needed one pound a week for food and clothing . |
| 26 | In a separate study of 17,000 Harvard graduates in 1986 it was determined that moderate exercise could add up to two years to a person 's life . |
| 27 | It was recognized that accurate message construction presupposed the capacity to identify the critical features of an item-that is , those features that uniquely identified the target . |
| 28 | Despite the temptation to accumulate treasure it was recognized that one way of stimulating gifts was to spend a sizable proportion on the further embellishment of buildings and the enrichment of furnishings and vestments . |
| 29 | Once it was recognised that any kind of cancer had an identifiable cause , it was natural to try and determine the exact chemical identity of the substances responsible ( the ‘ carcinogens ’ ) . |
| 30 | It was accepted that anal abuse may cause a range of signs , from surface skin damage , fissures , defects of anal verge , to severe lacerations , but that in our present state of knowledge , none of these in themselves , or in various clusters , establish with reasonable certainty that anal abuse has occurred . |