Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] that [det] [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 | It was assumed that any erosion terraces would show as modes in the frequency distribution . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | While this is a notoriously difficult problem , it was argued that some progress can be made . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was believed that this area offered more opportunities for conversion into convenient living space . |
| 12 | It was calculated that each child needed one pound a week for food and clothing . |
| 13 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 14 | Once it was accepted that this kind of question could be raised , the way was open to the conclusion that the Bible should simply be treated as a collection of ancient religious literature with no special claims to be heard or accepted except where it happened to express some general religious ‘ principle ’ that could be recognised as universally valid — the kernel within the husk . |
| 15 | He rather doubted Caroline 's story , but it was flattering that any woman should think she 'd had him . |
| 16 | It was emphasised that this event was not only intended for those interested in ecumenical groups . |
| 17 | It was decided that each Centre should display the emblem and that , wherever possible , the Centres should incorporate it on their notepaper , literature , leaflets , advertisements . |
| 18 | It was ascertained that that address erm , was occupied by the family again I do n't know the . |
| 19 | Later , however , it was revealed that another post-mortem discovered 14 different drugs in Presley 's body — including codeine , three sedatives , five varieties of ‘ downers ’ , two anti-depressants and a decongestant . |
| 20 | As it was stipulated that each segment be long enough to obey Gaussian statistics , short relaxation times may not allow a segment sufficient time to rearrange and regain this distribution . |
| 21 | It will be seen that whereas in Reg. v. Derby Crown Court , Ex parte Brooks , 80 Cr.App.R. 164 it was stated that any delay must be unjustifiable before relief by way of stay will be granted in Reg. v. Bow Street Stipendiary Magistrate , Ex parte Director of Public Prosecutons , 91 Cr.App.R. 283 , mere delay giving rise to prejudice and unfairness , it is said , may by itself amount to an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 22 | Lyndall Sachs of the Belgrade office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said it was hoped that another convoy could be sent in as early as today . |
| 23 | This raid had prompted the USA to suspend its dialogue with the PLO [ see pp. 37547-48 ] , and it was hoped that this dialogue would now be resumed . |
| 24 | They were schools , therefore , where progress in matching library provision to curriculum need had already begun , and where it was hoped that this impetus could be further developed through participation in the project and a grant in the region of £2,500 . |
| 25 | Maybe it was hoped that this move would cool the situation a bit . |
| 26 | It was hoped that this simplification would enhance further the attractiveness of the SDR in both official and private transactions . |
| 27 | Gerald Flood , co-starring as astronaut pilot Conway Henderson , remembers clearly a panic in the studio control room when it was realised that another character , dressed in full space suit , was inaudible to the microphones once he had latched down his space helmet . |
| 28 | In order to meet these requirements , it was realised that some form of detector-operated system would be essential , and this led to the development of the zoned system in which open sprinklers were used , mounted vertically one above the other on a drop pipe and fed from a ‘ zone control valve ’ which was opened directly by the response of the detector to the fire . |
| 29 | Later it was realised that this problem was particularly associated with phenformin and , provided metformin is avoided in the presence of renal or hepatic impairment , tissue hypoxia or significant ketone body production , it is safe ( Bergman et al , 1978 ; Luft et al , 1978 ; Nattrass & Alberti , 1978 ) . |
| 30 | In 1972 it was realised that this property depended on a separate histamine receptor ( H2 ) which was different from histamine ( H1 ) receptors in the lung and elsewhere , which were responsible for the allergic action of histamine . |