Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was eventually agreed that sovereignty would be transferred to a United States of Indonesia ( USI ) before 30 December 1949 . |
| 2 | It was thus agreed that redemption , to the sun of £100 only ( 4 x £25 bonds ) , be drawn for and should a bondholder so drawn insist on taking his money then the Bolney Syndicate would , if necessary , buy the bonds so saving the Club 's strained resources . |
| 3 | We were told that the papers in the case were being examined and it was clearly implied that action would be taken . |
| 4 | London became the dominant Eurocurrency centre because the dollar was the dominant currency , and because it was strategically located half way between New York and Tokyo so that dealing could continue round the clock . |
| 5 | Since it was generally believed that emancipation depended on women 's participation in production , demands were made to free women from domestic slavery by the provision of communal facilities for childcare and cooking . |
| 6 | And it was generally accepted that Grandad William Tallentire was capable of making his way in any society , so it really was n't a clear case of Grandma marrying beneath her . |
| 7 | It was also discovered that egg production could be boosted by leaving lights on in the houses all night to fool the hens into thinking that it was still daylight . |
| 8 | It was also accepted that repetition of the offences was unlikely . |
| 9 | It was also expected that government spending would be cut by 10 per cent , that state companies would be privatized and that sales taxes would be increased . |
| 10 | It was also reported that lack of success in higher education was largely due to non-completion rather than failure . |
| 11 | It was also reported that work was under way to clear Iraqi mines from the coastal waters around Kuwait , in preparation for the amphibious assault which was widely expected to accompany any allied ground offensive . |
| 12 | It was also urged that science should progress by the proposal of bold , highly falsifiable conjectures as attempts to solve problems , followed by ruthless attempts to falsify the new proposals . |
| 13 | It was also agreed that sewage dumped in certain " sensitive " areas of the sea would be given secondary treatment . |
| 14 | Those whose interests were prejudiced by the events of 787 are likely to have joined the ranks of Offa 's enemies , and it was later believed that Archbishop Jaenberht even plotted with Charlemagne against Offa to guarantee him free entry into Kent if he should invade . |
| 15 | Although it was later denied any truth by Wolfenden , it has been suggested that the immediate post-war period witnessed a ‘ witch-hunt ’ or ‘ purge ’ of homosexuals . |
| 16 | And ‘ that it was strongly recommended that Operation Majestic 12 be kept accountable only to the president of the United States ’ . |
| 17 | Before all these developments it was widely accepted that knowledge was something that was ‘ transmitted by words and absorbed by words ’ , and suddenly when faced with ‘ establishing the criteria for the arts as higher education subjects … we were forced to look at these subjects … and at what way they contributed to the role of higher education … |
| 18 | In this new environment it was widely believed that exchange rates , freed from restrictive intervention , would adjust reasonably smoothly to divergences in competitiveness , as predicted by the purchasing power parity theorem . |
| 19 | Even up to the end of the eighteenth century it was widely held that mind resided in the spaces within the brain , the ventricles , rather than in the neural tissue itself . |
| 20 | At the same time it was widely known that unemployment relief , while inadequate , could only be paid at all as a result of direct subsidy from the Reich . |
| 21 | It seems a fair bet that Joe Public finds it as hard to feel sorry for rodents as Winston Smith did , and though these lobotomised specimens were of the cuter white kind , it was possibly to watch this sequence without feeling many qualms . |
| 22 | The day after the ad was shown , P&G announced it was indefinitely suspending all advertising on WHDH-TV for its entire range of products , including Pampers diapers , Crest toothpaste and Head and Shoulders shampoo . |
| 23 | It was then decided that progress would be made if use was made of the " cascade " method , in which a small group would receive intensive training and practice and then would train others . |
| 24 | As turbulent conditions continued , it was then announced that base rate would rise further to 15 per cent the following day ( equal to its peak in 1989-90 ) , while at the close of business in London the pound stood at DM2.75 . |
| 25 | In addition , it was recently reported that endothelin can increase the fibrinolytic activity in vivo and in vitro . |
| 26 | In his article ‘ The New Course of Our Economic Policy ’ there had been a retreat from some of the more blatantly utopian ideas of The Economics ; gone was the euphoria ; it was now acknowledged that product exchanges and naturalisation of the economy were not an immediate prospect . |
| 27 | It was usually supposed that teaching should follow the order of discovery , for then the student is made to begin with familiar things . |
| 28 | Her glance flew to the Jaguar , parked where it was always parked these days , and a hint of a smile warmed her mouth . |
| 29 | Its origins lay in the Poor Law and it was never to lose that association . |
| 30 | It was obviously felt that protectionism , a policy which Austen Chamberlain 's father had encouraged , might attract Austen and his supporters back to the centre of the Conservative Party . |