Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not receive a thank you from the owner of these cards nor from the Midland Bank , yet I was told that common practice in Britain is to reward the finder . |
| 2 | On a recent visit to a day centre , which served both younger disabled and old people , I was told that old people were envious and resentful when computer learning was introduced for the younger disabled people . |
| 3 | I was informed that British Steel would be making a decision on the day that it made the decision — I was informed in confidence some days before that it would be making a decision on that day . |
| 4 | I was arguing that gay people have nothing to be ashamed of and yet my troops remained invisible as though they needed convincing too . |
| 5 | She was informed that unpaid and voluntary effort was not sanctioned by the Poor Law Board . |
| 6 | I was talking to a woman and she was saying that young people were n't the same in her day . |
| 7 | She was advised that formal evidence would have to be called in order for her to form an opinion under section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 as to whether the defendant should be remanded in custody or on bail on the same or more stringent conditions , and that accordingly the hearing would in effect be a trial and would require to be heard before at least two justices . |
| 8 | Part of their mission was to mobilize popular support for Franco , but who was to say that Falangist purists might not mobilize it against him ? |
| 9 | ‘ Also , we had introduced performance management and appraisal and have a policy here of developing staff to their full potential , ’ he said , ‘ yet we were finding that outside stress factors were preventing people from reaching that . ’ |
| 10 | But I was trained in an era when we were told that continental drift was all right for the unscientific geologists , but the " real " scientists — the physicists — said it was impossible . |
| 11 | ON reporting to Chantilly on the morning of February 25th , Pétain and Serrigny found that ‘ the panic was at its peak ’ The fall of Verdun was expected momentarily , ‘ and everybody was saying that General Herr should be shot ’ Somehow it leaked out that Pétain had come from Paris , not Noailles , and the word was quickly passed round by those veterans of intrigue that he had first been to see the Minister of War , Galliéni , the implacable foe of G.Q.G. Doubtless the rumour helped augment the alarm in the air . |
| 12 | Yet if it were known that microcephalic babies ( perhaps older infants as well — would it make a difference ? ) were regularly sold to research laboratories , then there would undoubtedly be an outcry . |
| 13 | ‘ If it were thought that other clubs would try to copy them , their example might , I am afraid , be unfortunate . |
| 14 | Martin Jackson watched the mating for a short while , the boar 's bulk shoving , the sow bearing him , as if he were seeing that savage , ludicrous event for the first time . |
| 15 | It was maintained that small amounts of assistance to firms could result in measurable improvements in the sales of products of assisted firms . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Lastly , it was assumed that new powers for planning would become available , including powers for the control of land values . |
| 18 | Until recently , it was assumed that other birds rely on different clues to guide them home . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The widespread nature of the process took people by surprise ; it was assumed that metropolitan growth was a permanent feature of modern society . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In all six cases it was indicated that sexual intercourse had taken place . |
| 26 | It was concluded that bilateral speech representation applied only to strong left handers with left handed relatives . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It was concluded that good schools can , and do , exert an important protective effect against behavioural disturbance . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |