Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] that [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authors of the Black Report , who included one of the most eminent Fabian academics , Professor Peter Townsend , were clear that such disparities were socially unjust and the NHS needed policies to address them , but they were forced to conclude from the evidence that the major causes of health inequalities lay beyond the NHS and were rooted in the material conditions of life experienced by the different classes . |
| 2 | In medieval England what came under pressure were the conventions by which claims to land rights were legitimated ; while some sectors of society were attempting to make written records the prime guarantor of ‘ truth ’ and legitimacy , others were suspicious that such records could easily be forged and preferred to put their faith in seals and in the oral testimony of ‘ twelve good men and true ’ . |
| 3 | On the one hand , the barons were confident that few clergy would rally to the support of Edward II . |
| 4 | For a while peace , work , food , clothing and shelter were all that most people hankered after , and the basic rebuilding of the economy and their shattered way of life took some two decades . |
| 5 | Ian Bond , the liquidator , said yesterday : ‘ Without the order , we were concerned that some litigants would have won summary judgment in their favour without us being able to defend ourselves properly . |
| 6 | Although our guards said it was irrelevant to our situation , we were worried that any hopes of freedom might just vanish . |
| 7 | More than anyone else , the inhabitants of the occupied territories were anxious that this benchmark and the protection of the Convention should not be removed . |
| 8 | It is by no means uncommon for preliminary results in abstracts to differ from those achieved finally — indeed , we were surprised that these discrepancies were thought worthy of remark . |
| 9 | One or two were aware that such connections could be made , that quantum mechanics was qualitatively different : |
| 10 | What the public would like to know is whether the Opposition , including the hon. Member for Cunninghame , North and the Front-Bench spokesman , the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , East ( Mr. Prescott ) , were aware that that document was not a genuine document , but was something prepared , no doubt , for political purposes . |
| 11 | Yet it was undeniable that such formulae were available for certain special quintic equations ( for instance the five roots of unc are each radically expressible ; see exercise 4.6.6 ) . |
| 12 | He told Daniel about the terrible St Rémy painting of the blasted tree , about noir-rouge , and Daniel said that it was odd that these orchards should be all over the walls of other asylums now , to cheer people up . |
| 13 | Mr Justice Stegmann , who sentenced her in May , said that it was possible that another court might reach a different verdict . |
| 14 | It was possible that these men were nothing but a strong feint designed to draw the allies towards Charleroi while the real French thrust , fuelled by the Emperor 's presence , attacked twenty-five miles to the west at Mons. |
| 15 | It was possible that this ineptitude revealed incipient senility . |
| 16 | On 2 October 1990 the inspector requested accounts of and details of transactions with one of the plaintiff 's subsidiaries , B ( Pte ) Ltd ( a Singapore company ) , as it was possible that this information would lead to the amendment of existing assessments . |
| 17 | By the sound of it he intended to move around anyway , so it was doubtful that any letter she wrote would reach him . |
| 18 | By the end of the 1980s it was clear that many UK banks were overexposed to overseas lending risks , especially in less developed countries ( LDCs ) . |
| 19 | NB In spite of our attempt to seek information relating only to time spent on specific work on the nature of language and its role in the world , it was clear that many respondents considered that any course on ( e.g. ) language teaching methods or reading methods was entirely ‘ about ’ language . |
| 20 | By 1980 it was clear that such villages were doing little to improve the lot of their members , whose livelihood now depended on their effective integration into the cash economy . |
| 21 | From an early stage in fieldwork I found it necessary to make a special index to notes which recorded what Zuwaya said about the past , for it was clear that these references and descriptions were recurrent themes . |
| 22 | The band agreed to let them issue a cassette containing a free badge and it was clear that both parties were supporting each other . |
| 23 | It was clear that both parties were set on a collision course , and I could not see the possibility of an out-and-out win for Mrs Castle . |
| 24 | It was clear that some notion of popular sovereignty provided the only plausible basis on which to challenge the theory and practice of absolutism . |
| 25 | It was clear that some clients would let their whole lives revolve around daily contact with their dealers . |
| 26 | It was clear that some economies were possible if more generic drugs were prescribed rather than branded drugs . |
| 27 | They were relaxed and puffing on cigarettes ; it was clear that any responsibility for the inert procession which now crocodiled back out of the village failed to bother them . |
| 28 | Hence I take the view that the absence of any reference to the criterion of proportionality in the B. & Q. judgment is not of fundamental importance and that the reason for the omission lay in the specific circumstances of the case , from which it was clear that any obstacles which might be created were not particularly serious . |
| 29 | It was clear that this knowledge was distressing her . |
| 30 | His nationalisation and fury at British exploitation made it impossible for him to compromise even if it was clear that this policies were self-destructive . |