Example sentences of "was [verb] that [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was realised that our first aim should be to secure more tangible evidence and , if possible , further witnesses . |
| 2 | It was fitting that his last innings for Middlesex should bring him 221 — his highest first-class score . |
| 3 | It was felt that whatever dramatic realism had been gained in the sociological breakthrough was now being sacrificed . |
| 4 | Although it was said that his main contribution to debate was his sonorous ‘ hear , hear ’ , his speeches , reflecting the outlook of a liberal-minded Whig , were usually sensible and to the point . |
| 5 | He was not told that he was being dismissed , but the EAT found that he could reasonably have assumed from what was said that his continuing employment prospects might well be limited . |
| 6 | The calf was in such bad condition that it was decided that its only chance of survival was to transfer it to Colombo Zoo for treatment . |
| 7 | With just six weeks to go to the British Olympic trials , officials wanted all concerned to be aware of the potential repercussions following the recent National Olympic Committee meeting when it was decided that anyone guilty of a violation the IOC medical code would be ineligible for any British team . |
| 8 | His position was further undermined when , on Aug. 3 , it was revealed that his private secretary had been an intermediatory in a separate scandal involving fraudulent loans of 260,000 million yen by the Fuji Bank . |
| 9 | The tale of the prospective parliamentary candidate who , a few months before a General Election , was charged with a rape offence , and acquitted , haunted the debate and it was alleged that his whole prospective parliamentary career had been unnecessarily ruined . |
| 10 | Then I was told that my confirmed interview with Ortega was not going to happen . |
| 11 | I was told that his legal advisers were concerned that if he applied for a taxation this would amount to an adoption of the bills and prejudice his other objections to the bill . |
| 12 | Ten years ago it was thought that something positive should be done to encourage and thank our faithful and hardworking Secretaries and Promoters . |
| 13 | It was thought that their former colleagues might like to hear from the University , particularly if some improvement in the alumni services available to those who studied at Stirling years ago could be made both useful and attractive . |
| 14 | Well I I think its , the way that the plaintiff puts the case on that point my Lord is that even if the defendant Mr took the view er that it would not have been proper for such a notice to be served , in view of what the plaintiff was saying to him about his wish to get out of the contract , the fact that it was available to him should have been brought to his attention and then as Mr was saying that I sorry I do n't feel I can do this on your behalf because it 's not proper in the circumstances or whatever erm , should then have gone on to advise the plaintiff either to do it himself or to go and seek independent advice . |
| 15 | Erm , he he he was saying that his young boy of eight , he does n't allow to play out alone . |
| 16 | Although it was known that something serious had occurred , the details were kept secret for decades . |
| 17 | The evangelical Lord Ashley viewed the prospect of marrying into such a family with trepidation , particularly as it was rumoured that his bride-to-be was the illegitimate daughter of Palmerston and Lady Cowper . |
| 18 | To see Di Stefano , Puskas and Gento caress and flick the ball , to see their back-heel passes and drag-backs and overhead kicks , was to realise that our school-yard coaches had it wrong when they 'd hectored us into a kick-and-run , ‘ fixed bayonets ’ type of football . |
| 19 | She is regarded as passive ( because the light does not have the intensity of the sun ) , and productive because it was believed that her shining , heavenly presence encouraged the growth of crops . |
| 20 | Until recently it was assumed that they all persisted as adults , but is has now been shown that the chilling of infective larvae before administration to calves will produce arrested L5 ; hypobiosis at this stage has also been observed in naturally infected calves in Switzerland , Austria and Canada , although the extent to which this occurs naturally after ingestion of larvae in late autumn and its significance in the transmission of the infection has not yet been fully established . |
| 21 | Birds respond to a wide range of sounds but for many years it was assumed that their low-frequency hearing was poorer than ours . |
| 22 | Already in 1928 he was protesting that his own pronouncements at the time of the Imagist manifesto were tailored to the specific needs of 1914 , and should not be taken as binding fourteen years later . |
| 23 | I was hoping that our humble efforts would help bring S.B. back . |
| 24 | To wear a swastika in 1981 was to say that something real was on the march again . |
| 25 | Although Lowe under Dr. Watson had also learnt enough speech to make himself understood by members of his family , he was to say that his usual method of communicating with his family was by his fingers , and with strangers , by writing . |
| 26 | Then she had been forced to leave when it was discovered that her real father was a white man . |
| 27 | The bowler-hatted ( not entirely un-Bolovian ) city gent photographed by his brother outside the offices of Faber and Gwyer in 1926 was determined that his new faith should be brought to the fore on his home , city ground with an emphasis on basic religious values , rather than those of sophisticated aesthetes . |
| 28 | The witness was subsequently recalled and it was established that her particular work ( presumably some form of basting or binding ) could not be accomplished by machine . |
| 29 | Indeed some years later ( when examined by the Radcliffe Committee on the working of the monetary system ) Sir Henry Self was to show that his basic attitudes to this question remained fundamentally unchanged : interest rates , he said , affected their costs , not their investment behaviour . |
| 30 | He was advised that his best chances for advancement in life lay in spending some time at the royal court and seeking some government office . |