Example sentences of "was [verb] that [adj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Christmas revolution , it was claimed that Arab guerrillas in training camps formed the core of the last defenders of Ceauşescu 's regime . |
| 2 | By 1900 it was reported that 500,000 households in England and Wales had been visited . |
| 3 | In her case it was accepted that many women in their 20s are involved in child birth and looking after children with the consequences that they are out of the employment market . |
| 4 | GREYHOUND RACING : The sport was reeling from scandal after it was revealed that five dogs in a race had been doped . |
| 5 | In particular , in a report upon collective discrimination it was shown that restrictive practices in the form of agreements between firms were widespread throughout industry , and generally tended to operate against the public interest . |
| 6 | For example , it was found that seven-year-old children in the sample from non-manual homes had a reading age 16 months ahead of children from manual and unskilled homes . |
| 7 | When each of the three subject areas ( Art , Social Sciences and Science ) were examined it was found that mature students in arts and social sciences gained better degrees than the younger students however the opposite was found for science subjects . |