Example sentences of "it [was/were] [vb pp] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The widespread nature of the process took people by surprise ; it was assumed that metropolitan growth was a permanent feature of modern society . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In all six cases it was indicated that sexual intercourse had taken place . |
| 4 | It was concluded that bilateral speech representation applied only to strong left handers with left handed relatives . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | First , it was argued that local government was financially dependent on the centre , and that ‘ he who pays the piper calls the tune ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was believed that similar action would follow very quickly in Scotland , where the Child Care Law Review was nearing completion . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | On Nov. 6 it was announced that broad agreement had been reached on protection for the German minority in Poland " in accordance with international standards " . |
| 18 | In compensation for the subsidy cuts , which had been negotiated in consultation with trades unions , and in an attempt to minimize their effect before the elections , it was announced that minimum pay would rise by 16 per cent to 12,920 lei per month ( US$1.00=391.55 lei as at Sept. 7 , 1992 ) . |
| 19 | It was decided that emotional well-being should also be examined , in order — as stated above — to see if the action project made a difference in that respect . |
| 20 | The Company 's ‘ SoutherN ’ fleet of open top K type buses was now outdated and in urgent need of replacement and at a Board Meeting of the UndergrounD Group , it was decided that SoutherN fleet should be liquidated and in their place , ten more buses of a modern type be added to the bus subsidiary of the Metropolitan Electric Tramways . |
| 21 | It was decided that sufficient experience had been gained in the three years of presentations for Physical Education and Recreation modules to allow a review in this area . |
| 22 | At the same time it was decided that single deck bus services would be numbered in the 200s ( Route 109 at Penge became 227 ) and trolleybus routes would be numbered in the 600s . |
| 23 | Once it was realized that financial self-sufficiency was no longer possible , the focus moved to forms of state control of the railway and the need for state resources to fund its deficit . |
| 24 | It was revealed that bilateral trade had increased by 3 per cent in 1989 over the previous year , and the aggregate target figure for bilateral trade in 1990 was set at $6,200 million . |
| 25 | Indeed it was hoped that overall adjustment would take place successfully through the cooperation of member countries in accepting such rules of conduct . |
| 26 | It was hoped that free trade in goods throughout the region would be ensured by 1995 and that the movement of capital and people would be deregulated by the end of the decade . |
| 27 | These carvings have been off display for many years as it was discovered that atmospheric pollution , even within the museum , was eating away at the stone . |
| 28 | LABOUR MP Glenda Jackson was at the centre of a political row last night after it was discovered that forged proxy votes were used in her constituency during the General Election . |
| 29 | In the analysis of strategic goals in the NHS in Chapter l , it was noted that competitive tendering has been identified as an objective of the highest importance to central government . |
| 30 | In the late 1980s it was felt that low profitability , partly arising from discounting of bonds by syndicate members in the grey market , necessitated a reform of primary market procedures . |