Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] that [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women made up only a minor proportion of the prison population in Geurrero and I was assured that this situation was reflected throughout Mexico . |
| 2 | When I wrote a popular book recently , I was advised that each equation I included would halve the sales . |
| 3 | I was told that all I needed to know was the total spend and that was it . |
| 4 | I was told that each train which passed us happened to be the one that was taking Tam Mahaddie away to kill the Kaiser and win the war . |
| 5 | I feel I must reply to some of the points Mr , Findlay made during the course of the conversation ( I was told that these were not just his views , ie. he had discussed the matter with you ) . |
| 6 | I was informed that this was the third ’ clip out ’ he had had during the night on that rod , the other two having been either aborted or missed . |
| 7 | That was er a flat in Plumtree , we were offered a flat on the first floor and when we examined the kitchen it was extremely obvious to me that our gas cooker would n't fit in the , the place where it was designed to fit , when I asked where do we put the washing machine I was informed that most tenants kept the washing machine on the balcony , when I said well where do we put the refrigerator , well most people keep the refrigerator either in the hall or , or rather not a hall it was a passageway , in the passageway or in the living room , now it does seem to me with hindsight that if that 's planning I , to use an old fashion London phrase , I 'm a Dutchman . |
| 8 | And she was determined that this would not happen . |
| 9 | Although she felt like a little girl who had gone into the wrong party room , she was determined that this woman would not keep her away from her husband . |
| 10 | Yes , but why they got the to offer it , because we were promised that this , this event would be decreased . |
| 11 | We were told that that is impossible to take a vote because with big organisations like B T and the Post Office one example was to sell off a Girobank there are eight thousand people , but they were just told you can either defer your pension , leave it with the Post Office Pension Fund , transfer it to the Leicester and Alliance who bought Girobank , or take your money out and take up a personal pension scheme . |
| 12 | We were told that this was the result of Gestapo torture . |
| 13 | Before this game we were told that this was the poorest Irish team in memory , that Irish rugby was in the doldrums and that the swashbuckling French were about to turn on the after-burners and skyrocket into the stratosphere . |
| 14 | We were told that this money was being collected for the families and we gave this money through the official trade union for that purpose . |
| 15 | Furthermore , they were taught that this was fundamental mathematical knowledge — part of being ‘ truly ’ educated . |
| 16 | They were advised that this was n't necessary , but a leading QC has since ruled this ‘ unlawful ’ because Walkinshaw , at the time , was chairman of both the BRDC and their trading subsidiary Silverstone Circuits Ltd and chairman and major shareholder of TWR . |
| 17 | Those admitted to Belgium were put on a train whose doors were locked and windows nailed shut ; they were told that such measures were necessary for their own protection . |
| 18 | But there would be no power of entry without a warrant if it were suspected that such an offence was taking place , even though there is such a power for the less serious offence under section 4 . |
| 19 | If it were found that more accidents occurred in the winter months between 6 and 8 o'clock in the evening compared with noon and 2 o'clock , is this because , during the early evening , lighting is worse , there is more traffic , drivers have been working longer and are more tired , or weather conditions are worse ? |
| 20 | As was noted above , it was suspected that this was a factor in the lack of a build-up of long-stay patients in the new services established after Powick was closed to admissions . |
| 21 | This would cause many of the possible infinities to cancel out , but it was suspected that some infinities might still remain . |
| 22 | In the last chapter it was explained that some of the world 's languages are ‘ tone languages ’ , in which substituting one distinctive tone for another on a particular word or morpheme can cause a change in the dictionary ( ‘ lexical ’ ) meaning of that word or morpheme , or in some aspect of its grammatical categorisation . |
| 23 | It was explained that these accounts would be used in a later practical class . |
| 24 | It was explained that this was because the company was perpetually producing new products with life-cycles of two to four years and that the product mixes over the narrow product range in current production were largely set by the available type of capacity over such periods . |
| 25 | When it was seen that all clan chiefs had taken the oath , Dalrymple was frustrated , but not for long . |
| 26 | It was assumed that all learning could be reduced to a series of conditioned reflexes . |
| 27 | In the British Army , discipline was centred around self-discipline , and it was assumed that each man had enough self-discipline to carry out an order without being told twice . |
| 28 | In 1990 , it was assumed that each assistant would average twenty items a minute ( Cutter and Rowe 1990 ) . |
| 29 | It was assumed that many who appeared on the box had been to drama school . |
| 30 | It was assumed that any erosion terraces would show as modes in the frequency distribution . |