Example sentences of "was [verb] that [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , taking World Bank and IDA figures together , and including interest payments by borrowing countries , it was calculated that during fiscal 1991 developing countries had paid back $1,677 million more than they received . |
| 2 | By July , Hoare was forecasting that before long refugees will ‘ have to be supported from British public funds if scandal is to be avoided ’ . |
| 3 | On the Gouveneur-Generaal Loudon , it was reported that at one time dust and water were falling together , as mud , and a thickness of fifteen centimetres accumulated in only ten minutes . |
| 4 | By the end of the month it was reported that at local level anti-Kim members of the DLP had begun leaving the party . |
| 5 | It was reported that on New Year 's Day these were closed by 3.30 p.m . |
| 6 | It was reported that among other items under discussion were the questions of US support for the mandatory repatriation of Vietnamese boat people and of US passports for Hong Kong citizens , issues on which the two countries had had differences of opinion during the past year . |
| 7 | It was reported that in 1989 North Korea had 12 concentration camps ( four more than in 1982 ) holding 152,000 prisoners undergoing forced labour and re-education . |
| 8 | On Oct. 21 it was reported that in recent days at least 50 civilians had been killed during a " war " between Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ) guerrillas and MRTA forces in remote towns in the central Andean Huallaga region . |
| 9 | It was reported that in 1985 and 1986 , objection was taken by the Lord Chancellor to Lord Justice Brown-Wilkinson 's participation in public debates as a result of which he did not appear . |
| 10 | In January 1990 it was disclosed that in 1976 a meltdown at Greifswald had only narrowly been averted . |
| 11 | It was resolved that from this day forward they shall be called by the name of the Veterinary College , London . |
| 12 | When the patterns of magnetic anomalies across mid-oceanic ridges were mapped out it was noticed that in several cases the parallel bands of similarly magnetized crust were broken by numerous offsets or displacements which seemed to be aligned approximately at right angles to the axis of the ridge . |
| 13 | It was said that at any social gathering one person would be an informer . |
| 14 | Afterwards it was said that at this mission Temple converted Michael Ramsey to decisive Christianity . |
| 15 | It was decided that about one thousand was right , three hundred to storm the castle itself and the remainder to seal off the approaches thereto for long enough to allow the raiders to achieve their ends and retire back across the ford , it was to be hoped with Edward Balliol dead or alive . |
| 16 | It was decided that from that time on the gypsy , Croat , German , Romanian , Serbian , Slovak , Slovene and Jewish communities would have one representative each in the Országgyüles , but that there would be no church representation . |
| 17 | It was alleged that at one licensed dealer directors traced dealers who had left them , whether of their own accord or not , via their bank accounts . |
| 18 | It was alleged that at first the railway company denied that they had been travelling on the train at all , and it was indeed suggested that the two children were chance victims of the holocaust and they happened to be wandering by the railway at the time . |
| 19 | It was alleged that in 1985 and 1987 Kitingan awarded to relatives licences for 2,000 hectares of timber and two construction contracts worth 12,000,000 ringgits . |
| 20 | Southwark Crown Court was told that between 13 and 17 June 1991 , Bedworth electronically intruded to the computers of the European Organisation for the Research and Treatment of Cancer ( EORTC ) on no fewer than 25 occasions . |
| 21 | He was told that by general consent of Grenadiers , La Grosse Tonne was the best , especially as it was bang next door to one of those establishments to which OC Ship referred . |
| 22 | During my own research into sea dumping at the time , I was told that in 1976 a team from the Atomic Energy Authority had been called in to decontaminate the Topaz , a ship used to dump Belgian waste , after the wrong type of drum container had been used . |
| 23 | Later I was told that in criminal trials counsel are not permitted to talk to their witnesses during adjournments . |
| 24 | Eight such units were envisaged , and it was anticipated that between three and five would be on the streets at any given time ( The Guardian , 10 May 1991 ) . |
| 25 | It was thought that with strong , carefully chosen ministers , she would do well enough when the time came . |
| 26 | Possibly it was thought that for this reason , amongst others , she would not be suspect by our controls . |
| 27 | It was emphasising that for many people hospital residence is inappropriate and they are simply living there because there is nowhere else for them . |
| 28 | I was expecting that at any minute Mum would shout down to find out what was going on but she must have been preoccupied , trying on her new frock . |
| 29 | It was noted that of those 35 patients who did not have dermatitis herpetiformis , 15 had attended their general practitioners and hospital outpatient clinics on several occasions over an average period of 28 years ( 0.5–50 years ) with unexplained symptoms or abnormalities in blood tests but the diagnosis of coeliac disease had been missed . |
| 30 | It was noted that on two occasions members of the committee collected subscriptions in the treasurer 's absence . |