Example sentences of "was [verb] [verb] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In twelfth-century legend St Valerie was the martyr ( J saint who personified Aquitaine and her story as told at Limoges — where she had lived and died and where her " thousand-year-old " body was still preserved was intended to show that Limoges was a more venerable city than Poitiers . |
| 2 | It was understood , however , that the Personnel Committee decision was intended to ensure that departments were open to members of the public rather than all workplaces . |
| 3 | This was expected to confirm that subjects would be seen uniformly away from the central strip , but , as described above , revealed the two halves to be of different sensitivity . |
| 4 | Animism was likewise low and primitive because it was said to imply that souls inhabit animals and trees just as they inhabit men . |
| 5 | Every effort was made to ensure that tribunals normally sat in buildings other than the premises of the DHSS in order to emphasize their independence from the Department . |
| 6 | A good deal of evidence was produced to show that children tend to conform to their teachers ' expectations of them . |
| 7 | The difference between the rhetorical and social representational approaches can be illustrated by considering a quotation from Moscovici ( 1984 ) , in which he is discussing the social nature of social representations : ‘ The word ‘ social ’ was meant to indicate that representations are the outcome of an unceasing babble and a permanent dialogue between individuals , a dialogue that is both internal and external , during which representations are echoed or complemented ’ ( Moscovici , 1984 : 950 ) . |
| 8 | Far from showing that teachers are very experienced predictors of how children will perform , this was taken to show that children will do , more or less , what is expected of them , whatever that may be . |
| 9 | Unfortunately for the newspaper , that party did not have many wealthy benefactors , and evidence was admitted to show that others immediately made the connection . |
| 10 | US ambassador Madeleine Albright said the US was determined to see that women jurists sit on the tribunal , that women prosecutors ‘ bring war criminals to justice ’ and that the systematic rape of women and girls be prosecuted thoroughly . |
| 11 | Verderers and agisters were on occasion , however , appointed directly by the king or by the Justice of the Forest ; at other times the warden of the forest was ordered to see that vacancies were filled . |