Example sentences of "it was [vb pp] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would cause many of the possible infinities to cancel out , but it was suspected that some infinities might still remain . |
| 2 | It was maintained that small amounts of assistance to firms could result in measurable improvements in the sales of products of assisted firms . |
| 3 | It was explained that these accounts would be used in a later practical class . |
| 4 | I remind him that there has been criticism historically when statements have been made about incidents in Great Britain , when it was commented that similar statements had not been made in the context of Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | It was created when 8,400 refugees returned from a 10-year exile in Honduras between November 1989 and February of this year . |
| 6 | When it was seen that all clan chiefs had taken the oath , Dalrymple was frustrated , but not for long . |
| 7 | Lastly , it was assumed that new powers for planning would become available , including powers for the control of land values . |
| 8 | Until recently , it was assumed that other birds rely on different clues to guide them home . |
| 9 | It was assumed that all learning could be reduced to a series of conditioned reflexes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In 1990 , it was assumed that each assistant would average twenty items a minute ( Cutter and Rowe 1990 ) . |
| 12 | When Mrs Thatcher took office in May 1979 it was assumed that southern Africa would cause a massive rift between her and the black African states of the Commonwealth . |
| 13 | The widespread nature of the process took people by surprise ; it was assumed that metropolitan growth was a permanent feature of modern society . |
| 14 | It was assumed that spoken forms which failed to observe the rules of morphology and syntax considered appropriate to written forms were ‘ incorrect ’ and ‘ ungrammatical ’ . |
| 15 | It was assumed that any erosion terraces would show as modes in the frequency distribution . |
| 16 | Along with earlier ideas of colonisation of the landscape , it was assumed that original churches had been supplemented with additional chapels of ease as needed . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was indicated that testing times could be reduced and that the potential existed for cost reductions in component overhaul , although these have yet to be quantified precisely . |
| 19 | In all six cases it was indicated that sexual intercourse had taken place . |
| 20 | This seems to have been revised twice , and by the third edition it was re-titled as Public Offices and Metropolitan Improvements , with an appendix added , comparing the cost of Hope 's plan with that of the Government 's . |
| 21 | It was achieved because many Protestants voted tactically for the SDLP instead of the Ulster Unionists . |
| 22 | It was concluded that bilateral speech representation applied only to strong left handers with left handed relatives . |
| 23 | It was concluded that mammalian carnivores produce greater degrees of breakage generally than do avian raptors , and there are sufficient differences between them to enable identification of the predator on breakage pattern alone at least to family level . |
| 24 | It was concluded that good schools can , and do , exert an important protective effect against behavioural disturbance . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The early work on viscoelasticity was performed on silk , rubber , and glass , and it was concluded that these materials exhibited a ‘ delayed elasticity ’ manifest in the observation , that the imposition of a stress resulted in an instantaneous strain which continued to increase more slowly , with time . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Will he accept that in the United States of America , the land of free enterprise , it was concluded that voluntary arrangements would never sufficiently overcome discrimination against employment and will he respond positively to the view of the employers forum on disability and the law society as well as three hundred and eleven honourable members of this house who have signed E D M number two that the time has now come for legislation to ban discrimination against in er disabled people in respect of employment in this country . |
| 30 | In the previous section , it was argued that major contributions to the growth of scientific knowledge come about either when a bold conjecture is confirmed or when a cautious conjecture is falsified . |