Example sentences of "it was [verb] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's simply the reason it was done that way was to reflect a County Council decision which had been taken fairly recent times on the route of an outer as opposed to an inner . |
| 2 | The company explains its performance by saying that 1989 was the first year that the US contributed the majority of its sales , 61% of the total , and that it was hit that year by a 35% fall in the UK because it was too reliant on one customer ; it raised £1.5m in a rights issue . |
| 3 | It was assumed that wisdom , as the sum of experience and self-control , grew with age . |
| 4 | Raymond Williams puts it like this : it was argued that man 's spiritual health depended on a kind of education which was more than a training for some specialized work , a kind variously described as ‘ liberal ’ , ‘ humane ’ or ‘ cultural ’ . |
| 5 | Against this , it was argued that government bodies which use public money to provide information to the public are under a special public law obligation to ensure that the information is accurate ; and this obligation , being a public law one , was properly enforceable by judicial review . |
| 6 | Often , it was argued that science degrees qualified students to enter ‘ general ’ jobs such as management as well as specialized scientific ones , whereas arts students could apply only for the general jobs . |
| 7 | ‘ I heard on good authority that Albert Reynolds sent an emissary to the north to make sure it was understood that Spring was not speaking for the government . |
| 8 | In Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd ( No 2 ) [ 1988 ] 3 All ER 545 ( part of the Spycatcher case ) it was recognised that information which Peter Wright had unearthed by his own endeavours was clearly covered by an obligation of confidence even though one could not say there existed a " confider " or " confidant " in relation to that information . |
| 9 | It was accepted that member states would operate their own national regional assistance instruments , whereas the Community 's preoccupation would be to ensure that national aid did not conflict with its competition policy , by providing protection for domestic industries under the guise of regional aid . |
| 10 | The matter was referred to the Committee on Privileges which recommended that the matter was covered by absolute privilege but when this was debated by the whole House , it was accepted that writing to a minister was not a proceeding before Parliament . |
| 11 | One consequence was this : once it was accepted that scripture stood alone outside tradition , and could be interpreted correctly by anyone with a pure heart and God-given rationality , it was not too big a step to suggest that the same could also be said of nature . |
| 12 | It was accepted that Amnesty International would investigate and draw up an adverse report . |
| 13 | Well , s I thought it was tending that way . |
| 14 | Moreover , only a very small segment of jejunum was exposed to the full dose of cholera toxin and because of the rapid binding of the toxin to the mucosa it was presumed that cholera toxin was not available in the distal small bowel to induce secretion . |
| 15 | The auction was set to begin at one and it was nearing that time when Cornelius finally met up once more with Tuppe . |
| 16 | The balance of power was shifting back to favour the landlord , and it was to remain that way for a long time . |
| 17 | In the exile it was decreed that circumcision was to be the official rite of initiation into Judaism and all that that now meant . |
| 18 | It was announced that legislation would be brought forward in 1990 for the introduction of value added tax ( VAT ) . |
| 19 | On Saturday 4 June 1859 it was announced that prayer meetings would be held in the Town Hall at 6.00 am , 12.00 noon and 8.00 pm . |
| 20 | On 7 April 1906 it was announced that current could now be obtained from the Beckenham Power Station and that guard wires as required by the Post Office had now been fixed near Penge entrance to the Crystal Palace . |
| 21 | Everyone has been asking this questions since it was announced that Holiday '91 Presenter Anne Gregg will be leaving the programme later this month at her BBC bosses ' request . |
| 22 | Eventually Mrs Thatcher 's reluctance was overcome , and in July 1989 it was announced that responsibility for community care would be given to local authorities . |
| 23 | At the Russian Supreme Soviet session on Feb. 13 it was announced that responsibility for farm reform would be taken on by Russian Vice-President Aleksandr Rutskoi , whose public criticism of Yeltsin 's economic reform had become increasingly sharp over previous weeks . |
| 24 | On Oct. 16 it was announced that work had begun to erect 40 mobile homes at Givat Hamatos in southern Jerusalem . |
| 25 | Two months after the military crackdown in Beijing in June 1989 , it was announced that university student intake would be cut from 640,000 to 610,000 in the next academic year , and that " specialities mainly in the social science fields which the State has deemed for a long time to have turned out personnel not qualified for socialist construction " would be suspended . |
| 26 | At a hearing on Jan. 30 it was announced that retrial on the outstanding charges would begin on March 9 . |
| 27 | It was announced that milk consumption would be banned from all farms within 200 square miles around the plant . |
| 28 | –n the day of their arrival , it was announced that food rationing would be introduced . |
| 29 | On Oct. 8 it was announced that agreement had been reached on the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Poland , thus paving the way for a treaty between the two countries . |
| 30 | After the meeting of Nov. 14 , it was announced that agreement had been reached on forming a Union of Sovereign States , which Gorbachev described as a union of " Confederal Democratic States " . |