Example sentences of "was [verb] that [adj] [noun pl] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using the end point of investigator 's assessment of remission , it was calculated that 226 patients were required to show that fluticasone propionate was at worst 15% inferior to prednisolone . |
| 2 | It was recommended that criminal charges be filed in such cases . |
| 3 | In a report launched in May , Organising for Safety , it was recommended that organisational factors be given the same emphasis as equipment failure and individual human error when considering safety . |
| 4 | It was argued that such covenants are often contained in conveyances , leases and mortgages , and that they had never been subject to the doctrine of restraint of trade and consequently the test of reasonableness . |
| 5 | It was argued that social acts were essentially motivated behaviour and could be properly understood and explained only in terms of these underlying dispositions . |
| 6 | It was argued that these assignments were by way of charge . |
| 7 | It was accepted that these restrictions were necessary in the interests of the community , salus populi est suprema lex , and that private owners should be compelled to comply with them even at cost to themselves . |
| 8 | This section has paused long on the views held by some librarians on the nature of their role , and that of their collections , in the educational process because it was felt that such views were not as widely known among educators as perhaps they should be . |
| 9 | On this occasion I didn ‘ t , because it was felt that other factors were more important . |
| 10 | However , it was felt that these agencies are not very supportive of women who approach them . |
| 11 | It was said that these teenagers were easily offended . |
| 12 | Following further argument in Rome , it was decided that episcopal elections were to fall to the convents of Coventry and Lichfield by turn . |
| 13 | No suggestion was made that non-litigation costs were not amenable to being quantified by taxation . |
| 14 | Fritz Leiber once wrote a terrific book called Conjure Wife , in which it was revealed that all women were witches . |
| 15 | The extent of the problems faced by students at the poly was highlighted last week when it was revealed that some students were living in cars , and others had to turn down places because of the lack of affordable housing . |
| 16 | In consulted the ladies again , and was told that these nightmares were caused by an incarnation in Ancient Greece where I had been sacrificed to the Sun God . |
| 17 | Baker was told that human rights were an internal matter ; Yang Shangkun , warning that pressure on this issue would only lead to increased tension , suggested " seeking common ground while reserving differences " to improve relations . |
| 18 | Previously it was thought that all coins were struck from separate dies , but the increasing sophistication of photography in the late nineteenth century enabled scholars to appreciate that die links could be found , and the first full die study of the coins of a Greek city was published in 1906 . |
| 19 | It was understood that most injuries were caused by debris falling from the Commercial Union and other buildings on to passers by . |
| 20 | Secondly , it was recognised that existing services were often vital but that they were unable to meet all the needs of this special group of elderly people and that different types of service might be required ; it was never intended that the project should deprive people of existing services and substitute others for them , but that it should bridge gaps between those already available , whether statutory , voluntary or private . |
| 21 | It was noted that both women were killed on the night of a full moon , as were Gore 's parents . |
| 22 | It was found that key characteristics was by far the most popular strategy , followed by realist strategy . |
| 23 | Although theoretically any potency can be used , in practice it was found that some potencies were more effective than others . |
| 24 | When males and females were analysed separately it was found that different characteristics were associated with non-completion and that these differences were quite striking . |
| 25 | I should add here that even as a junior at Halton I was in the senior cross-country team — which only people in their very last year were normally eligible to join and at this stage I was in my first year of three , I was allowed to go out on any occasion , in running gear , to train as I was a bona fide member of the team and so on one of these occasions when I was out training — I always wore a sort of towel around my neck which looked very professional at the time and quite unnecessary — I managed to conceal the altimeter , which had become very very hot property by this time because it was known that several instruments were missing and we could have a visit from the gendarme . |
| 26 | By 1679 it was estimated that such payments were six or seven years in arrears ; and in the 1690s English diplomats were still very often paid merely in Exchequer tallies which could be cashed only after long delay and at ruinous discounts to their face value . |
| 27 | In 1989 , it was estimated that sharp instruments were used in one in three aggravated burglaries , one in five robberies , one in 17 offences of violence against the person and one in 100 sexual offences . |
| 28 | In the middle ages , it was discovered that many regiments were not getting their fair share . |
| 29 | He also distributed library books to those who asked for them — although I saw few books in the cells or barracks and it was stated that few prisoners were interested in reading . |
| 30 | It was becoming easy enough to find biochemical changes that occurred when an animal learned ; the problem was to show that such changes were really part of the memory-making process . |