Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [verb] that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things remained thus for nearly 80 years , and although it became generally recognised that the genus needed to be split-up into several smaller ones , the amount of work required was such as to make the task an almost-impossible proposition , at least for a single revision . |
| 2 | It became widely accepted that the attackers were predominantly black , although there was little evidence for this belief . |
| 3 | As the officer corps became more professionalized , it became more determined that the army should not be used again to quell civilian protest as in 1905–6 . |
| 4 | In a statement yesterday , NUPE said it had recently learned that the hospital trust planned to borrow £300,000 from its capital programme to finance the development . |
| 5 | It had earlier heard that the legionella bug was found in the centre 's hot water system after Mrs Ormerod was a patient . |