Example sentences of "[pron] was [vb pp] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was determined that Marguerite would not suffer for it , and she clamped down on her growing fears . |
| 2 | East Clwyd coroner David Jones read a statement by Jacob 's mother , Alison Bates , in which she said her pregnancy had been normal but she was warned that intervention might be necessary because of the position of the baby 's head . |
| 3 | In the Allied Dunbar ( Frank Weisinger ) case it was confirmed that sale purchase covenants will be construed less stringently than employee 's covenants . |
| 4 | From the data on cropping it was seen that grass made up by far the greatest proportion of arable hectares . |
| 5 | From a combination of three levels of professional development — unreflective self-evaluation based on practical knowledge , self-evaluation as practical deliberation and self-evaluation as action research — it was assumed that teaching quality would most noticeably be improved through deliberation and action research . |
| 6 | Built during a period of architectural optimism , when it was assumed that technology would triumph , it had been laid out in a series of oblong paved courtyards , surrounded by long , low , concrete-faced buildings , remarkable solely for their brutalism . |
| 7 | Crudely simplified , majority opinion passed through two well-defined phases in the West : first , it was assumed that war was unthinkable and impossible as a continuation of policy ; later , it was suggested that within certain limits nuclear war might still be winnable , if you were sufficiently prepared . |
| 8 | In assessing the impact of stories of premature interment , one must bear in mind that for most of the nineteenth century , medical science , such as it was , was helpless in the face of coma and cardiac arrest ; if the patient had apparently ceased breathing and had no discernable heartbeat , it was assumed that death had come . |
| 9 | Before the fascinating high-fibre research findings it was assumed that weight loss depended entirely on the number of calories consumed compared with the number expended by the body . |
| 10 | From a pilot study comparing the antiviral effect of interferon , acyclovir and a combination of interferon and acyclovir , it was concluded that combination therapy appears to be a highly promising treatment for chronic hepatitis B. As more recent controlled studies have shown that acyclovir does not enhance the therapeutic effect of interferon alone , the results of the pilot study could also be interpreted as indicating that a second course of interferon after short term primer interferon therapy is more effective than a single course . |
| 11 | At a meeting in Harare of African finance officials in July 1989 , it was argued that development is being held up by the tendency for government policy-makers to be involved in short-term crisis management for structural adjustment programmes , and responding to the demands of large numbers of foreign advisers . |
| 12 | It was argued that ERDF resources did not in fact represent truly additional aid for problem regions if such aid merely replaced expenditure that national governments would otherwise have incurred themselves . |
| 13 | The measure , which would have involved the first overseas deployment of Japanese forces since 1945 , was condemned by the opposition as unconstitutional ( it was argued that Article 9 of Japan 's post-war Constitution prohibited the country 's participation in acts of collective defence ) and by the governments of many of Japan 's neighbours as an undesirable manifestation of nascent Japanese militarism . |
| 14 | Similarly , it was argued that globalisation spread a company 's exposure to geographical vicissitudes of local economies . |
| 15 | Recently it was believed that morale had declined and that only firm Soviet and North Korean police rule was preventing defections . |
| 16 | At the time , it was believed that obsolescence was to blame . |
| 17 | In the early post-war years it was believed that investment expenditures were not very responsive to changes in interest rates , and most of the empirical evidence at the time , seemed to support this view . |
| 18 | It was believed that fixity of exchange rates was necessary for the consolidation and development of these achievements . |
| 19 | His education was completed by a year of studies in Aberdeen , and it was determined that engineering should be his profession , after an apprenticeship as a mason . |
| 20 | It was recognised that use of trisodium citrate would remove the need for the separate salt compartments , but its use was ruled out on the grounds that trisodium citrate was five times more expensive than sodium bicarbonate . |
| 21 | In other words it was recognised that community care is not necessarily , and not for ail , a cheaper form of care . |
| 22 | It was denied that force had been used in the initial operation . |
| 23 | It was emphasised that reality would be easier than the way we did it . |
| 24 | Most of them are concerned with admissibility of evidence , which is not in issue here ; and none , aside from those already mentioned , arose where in the face of clear and general language it was contended that Parliament must nevertheless have intended the words of the statute to have only a limited effect . |
| 25 | Before this , it was realized that quality had an impact on the bottom line , but there had been little analysis of its effects . |
| 26 | Yesterday it was revealed that PC Hall escaped death by a whisker when he was shot at point-blank range . |
| 27 | Sure enough , next day saw a procession , only Lamb and Hussain passing thirty , although Smith batted for an hour with a broken finger and it was revealed that Hussain had been playing for five weeks with a broken bone in his wrist and Lamb had a cracked elbow . |
| 28 | A FURIOUS row erupted last night after it was revealed that Justice Minister Maire Geoghegan-Quinn has refused to end the Republic 's shame over IRA statements . |
| 29 | It was stated that Islam was based on the worship of a ‘ Father God ’ . |
| 30 | It was hoped that sale of the stake would benefit the consortium . |