Example sentences of "it [vb past] [that] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , in December 1984 it announced that a 30 per cent cut was becoming ‘ an aim of policy ’ . |
| 2 | The High Court in Dublin sparked a huge controversy on Feb. 17 when it ruled that a 14-year-old girl , who became pregnant after allegedly being raped by the father of a friend , could not travel to the United Kingdom for an abortion . |
| 3 | It transpired that a large quantity of spent shells from a plane ahead went through the nose and had struck Ed . |
| 4 | More strikingly , it demonstrated that a toroidal discharge in a toroidal magnetic field established its own stable configuration . |
| 5 | It estimated that a 60 per cent cut in commercial debt would be required if the region 's economies were to resume traditional growth levels . |
| 6 | The old Theatre Royal in Dunlop Street soon followed , and it seemed that a new age had been ushered in as the gas light glinted on the crystal chandeliers and the illuminati of Glasgow clustered like moths about a bundle of bunsen-burners . |
| 7 | Then it seemed that a new cycle of muttering was beginning . |
| 8 | When , in August 1920 , the threat of British military intervention against Soviet troops advancing into Poland , triggered a massive upsurge of anti-war sentiment , it seemed that a new wave of revolutionary pacifism might erupt , taking up where the crisis of January 1918 had left off . |
| 9 | Although some years ago it seemed that a new general classification scheme based upon the theory of faceted classification might emerge and be widely adopted , organizational factors have militated against this . |
| 10 | It seemed that a malevolent spirit was out to get me . |
| 11 | It seemed that a major factor in being granted access , was that I was able to convince the deciding parties that the research would be ‘ useful ’ for practitioners . |
| 12 | It seemed that a dark halo enclosed the men 's faces and her head filled with a sound of the sea . |
| 13 | It seemed that a fuller role was required for the M.P . |
| 14 | As I got to the end of the row it seemed that a hundred hands had grabbed me … my body was being assailed with blows from so many directions , whether from kicks or punches I do not know , and with stars in front of my eyes and bells ringing in my ears , I felt another strange sensation . |
| 15 | On the Friday evening , their last night , I came downstairs after a bath and was on my way to the kitchen to get supper when , in glancing out of the windows at the front , it seemed that a dense fog had developed . |
| 16 | Standing in the back of one of the pick-ups as it sped across the hard sand , with the dust spiralling out behind us across the vast plain , it seemed that a whole new world was opening up . |
| 17 | To the layman it seemed that a decreasing service was being provided at increasing expense . |
| 18 | Shouting was necessary , for it happened that a high-speed train was rushing by at just that moment on a main line to the east coast . |
| 19 | Now it happened that a few days earlier Jones had called up Lee R. Phillips , an attorney associated with Brigham Young University , in order to file a patent arising from his muon-fusion work . |
| 20 | It claimed that a large amount of money would be the immediate reward if you were delivered unharmed to the nearest British post . |
| 21 | No major EC country has ever been refused what it wanted when it declared that a vital national interest was at stake . |
| 22 | This made Bekenstein 's suggestion that a black hole had a finite entropy fully consistent , since it implied that a black hole could be in thermal equilibrium at some finite temperature other than zero . |
| 23 | As the shift to the non-marketed sector took place and since productivity in the shrinking marketed sector did not increase substantially , it meant that a smaller proportion of the net output of the marketed sector was left to be used by industrialists and their workers . |
| 24 | But in mid-February it complained that a fifth of primary schools are offering sub-standard teaching in reading . |
| 25 | Later it emerged that a second tape of the same conversation had been recorded in Oxford , on a different date , from a scanning receiver at the home of Jane Norgrove . |
| 26 | Later it emerged that a second tape of the same conversation had been recorded in Oxford , on a different date , from a scanning receiver at the home of Jane Norgrove . |
| 27 | It appeared that a great deal of income was potentially being lost as procedures were not consistent throughout the network . |
| 28 | Within a day or two it appeared that a complete South African team would be fielded and Treviso might just see the start of rugby 's World War III . |
| 29 | In March 1990 it appeared that a further RAF attack had been averted . |
| 30 | It appeared that a German S.P. gun had joined the snipers and was lobbing the occasional shell into the vicinity of the orchard . |