Example sentences of "was [verb] that [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joseph II in the 1780s attached great importance to its work ( not surprisingly for a ruler of his suspicious and autocratic temperament ) and it was claimed that in the single year 1780 – 81 alone no fewer than fifteen foreign diplomatic cyphers were broken in Vienna . |
| 2 | On Sept. 18 it was reported that in the previous week five truck drivers had been killed by armed groups , probably of the Afar clan , on the road from the port of Assab to Addis Ababa . |
| 3 | It was forecast that with no domestic savings to draw on , the government would be forced to abandon a plan to maintain the new " gold cordoba " currency at a fixed parity to the US dollar during 1991 . |
| 4 | It was argued that in the verbal rehearsal condition subjects had to name the picture probe before a match could be performed on a verbal basis , while in the imagery condition a match could be made directly . |
| 5 | It was said that on the first occasion that a female student ‘ scrubbed ’ with him he was reaching the end of a long case and held up the piece of cat-gut slung under the ureter ( to identify it and keep it safe during the dissection ) , saying ‘ Cut ! ’ |
| 6 | Our Development Steering Group met in April and because we were by then well into our financial year it was decided that with an all out effort on everyone 's part we should be able to raise the £8000 for 1988 . |
| 7 | Details of the summer bonanza meeting , on a par with most of the top venues in the United Kingdom , were outlined at a House of Sport Press Conference today where it was revealed that for the first time the meeting will be held on a Saturday night ( 6pm start ) . |
| 8 | I was told that in the early days of tape , three weeks ' work in Europe was wiped when , as the White Cliffs of Dover came into sight , the bag containing them was put down in front of the rotating aerial . |
| 9 | It was agreed that during the next 12 years his earnings would have been £21,000 per annum , which would have given him £7,500 after tax . |
| 10 | It was agreed that for the 1908–09 financial year , which began in July , the wage bill for eight or nine staff should not exceed £500 in total , ( an average of less than £1 each per week ) . |
| 11 | But on 21 July , Edward I ordered Jean de Grilly to obey Philip III 's summons and to make ready to perform military service ; but in his reply to the king of France he was to stress that in the 1259 treaty ‘ the certainty of the said service has not yet been found ’ . |
| 12 | Certainly in the New Zealand study , it was found that of the 83 cases looked at , 41 per cent . |
| 13 | In the Wessex Dairies case , it was found that on the last day of his employment as a milkman the defendant , whilst on his round , informed customers that he would soon cease to be employed by the plaintiffs , that he was going to set up business on his own and could supply them with milk . |
| 14 | It was believed that under the proposed arrangements brokers would accept deals that they had not ‘ matched ’ through a jobber , with the result that jobbers would probably receive less business and find it more difficult to compete . |
| 15 | The small scale of its activities was always mentioned : it was estimated that of the 30,000 boys who annually left London elementary schools , not more than 2% came under its influence and that of similar organizations . |
| 16 | Here again , all manner of tradesmen joined the boats and it was recorded that at the last major haul of pilchard seiners from Looe , in 1866 , the master seiner was a tailor ! |
| 17 | At the end of C.A. 1991 it was recorded that over the previous 18 years we had raised over £210,000 for the cause . |
| 18 | What we decided to do , because I thought that 's what you 'd been pressing for , was to show that as the equivalent affect of , okay , you think you 're making these profits but you 're actually enjoying services that you 're not paying for . |
| 19 | It was held that at the relevant stages the seller could sue for the instalments then due . |
| 20 | Secondly , it was held that on the proper construction of the lease the provisions relating to gold regulated the manner of payment rather than the amount of payment . |
| 21 | The attempt to construct such a right was built upon a number of different grounds , perhaps the most important being the analogy with the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution which protects people from unreasonable search and seizure , the analogy being drawn presumably because the Fourth Amendment is based upon English common law , particularly Entick v. Carrington , where it was held that as a general rule search warrants may only be issued under the authority of a statute . |