Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] that [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against this , it was argued that government bodies which use public money to provide information to the public are under a special public law obligation to ensure that the information is accurate ; and this obligation , being a public law one , was properly enforceable by judicial review . |
| 2 | Often , it was argued that science degrees qualified students to enter ‘ general ’ jobs such as management as well as specialized scientific ones , whereas arts students could apply only for the general jobs . |
| 3 | It was accepted that member states would operate their own national regional assistance instruments , whereas the Community 's preoccupation would be to ensure that national aid did not conflict with its competition policy , by providing protection for domestic industries under the guise of regional aid . |
| 4 | Moreover , only a very small segment of jejunum was exposed to the full dose of cholera toxin and because of the rapid binding of the toxin to the mucosa it was presumed that cholera toxin was not available in the distal small bowel to induce secretion . |
| 5 | On Saturday 4 June 1859 it was announced that prayer meetings would be held in the Town Hall at 6.00 am , 12.00 noon and 8.00 pm . |
| 6 | Two months after the military crackdown in Beijing in June 1989 , it was announced that university student intake would be cut from 640,000 to 610,000 in the next academic year , and that " specialities mainly in the social science fields which the State has deemed for a long time to have turned out personnel not qualified for socialist construction " would be suspended . |
| 7 | It was announced that milk consumption would be banned from all farms within 200 square miles around the plant . |
| 8 | –n the day of their arrival , it was announced that food rationing would be introduced . |
| 9 | It was decided that state sickness benefit was to be taxed by its abolition ! |
| 10 | However , it was decided that quality components were to be used from whatever source in whatever country was considered to offer the optimum choice . |
| 11 | it was planned that pornography addicts , sexual deviants and ‘ others involved in erotica ’ would pursue compulsory spiritual activities and take courses in handicrafts . |
| 12 | In 1968 it was planned that field staff working in the north of England would be based in the new Scottish headquarters but later , the space originally allocated to them was given to the Marine Geophysics Unit . |
| 13 | The new President , the Premier , the two Deputy Premiers and the Defence Minister all held seats in the People 's Great Hural which they were required to give up , as it was stipulated that Cabinet post-holders could not concurrently serve as deputies to the assembly . |
| 14 | The experience curve itself was developed from the concept of the learning curve , which had been used for many years in industries where it was observed that labour time fell as the workforce accumulated experience in producing more of a particular type of unit . |
| 15 | It was acknowledged that dock identification was unsatisfactory but the identification of a person through a name which was only known by hearsay was almost equivalent to a dock identification . |
| 16 | On more than one occasion it was remarked that ship designers tested their designs on duckponds . |
| 17 | At a meeting of North and South Korean Red Cross officials on June 12 it was agreed that exchange visits of dispersed family members would be held on Aug. 25-28 . |
| 18 | It was agreed that community groups should give some thought to campaigning to have these facilities installed . |
| 19 | However , the government accepted that large hypermarkets would still require planning permission , and in some cases ( for example , Clydebank and Newcastle ) , it was agreed that declaration reports should include clauses governing shops over a certain size . |
| 20 | It was agreed that library support for such work could not be provided on short notice , and that the journal collection of the University should be used , at least initially . |
| 21 | To replace them , it was agreed that car No. 1 should go to Leeds , when the Croydon routes were abandoned . |
| 22 | It was found that customer dissatisfaction and lost productivity due to computer downtime were considered to have a greater impact than the quantifiable loss of revenue due to downtime . |
| 23 | In the whole , as the degree of discrimination increased it was found that reaction time increased at a fairly constant rate . |
| 24 | It was alleged that exchange rate changes would reflect money supply growth rate differentials and , consequently , exchange rate flexibility would insulate countries from external nominal shocks . |
| 25 | It was expected that case law would give rise to sufficient precedents to flesh out the relatively few guidelines available under UCTA , but in fact cases have been few and not very helpful . |
| 26 | Melvyn Kelly , prosecuting , said it was expected that committal proceedings would be able to take place in two weeks . |
| 27 | Although the advantage of real volume planning , an assured outcome , is lost by the new technique , it was expected that cash planning would mean that government expenditure could more easily be related to expected government revenue . |
| 28 | It was expected that input data would be transcribed to the magnetic wire by a process which did not involve the computer , and similarly for output . |
| 29 | It was anticipated that port performance would improve as a result of more intense competition and that jobs would be created ( upwards of 50,000 ) as a result of investment , redevelopment and rejuvenation of ailing dockland areas . |
| 30 | Following decades of neglect of safety and suppression of information on asbestos 's health effects , by 1965 it was established that cancer rates among workers exposed to asbestos were extremely high . |