Example sentences of "was [verb] that [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Nov. 18 it was reported that Chadian National Front ( FNT ) fighters had handed over their weapons to the Sudanese authorities on the border under a reconciliation agreement with the Déby government . |
| 2 | Although both the Reagan and the Bush administrations had previously waived this provision , it was expected that senior Democratic senators would oppose another suspension of the certification requirement . |
| 3 | It was said that armed mounted troopers were grouped outside the oval to quell a possible riot . |
| 4 | But as the French press produced one embarrassing revelation after another , including leaks from the DGSE itself , it was decided that 65-year-old civil servant Bernard Tricot should carry out a rigorous investigation and that the French government would cooperate fully with the New Zealand police . |
| 5 | During Hungarian-Soviet trade talks it was revealed that total Hungarian exports to the Soviet Union were expected to reach $1,500 million by the end of 1991 . |
| 6 | KATRIN KRABBE 'S hopes of avoiding a four-year doping ban received a boost yesterday when it was revealed that influential scientific reports backed up her case that she did not take banned steroids . |
| 7 | It was agreed that annual Arab League summit meetings would be held , with the first to be in Cairo in November 1990 . |
| 8 | Khrushchev asserted in March 1960 that ’ the Soviet Union is now the world 's strongest military power' ( Izvestiia , 2 March 1960 ) and , although it was recognised that Soviet economic capacity was then inferior to that of the United States , it was confidently predicted that the socialist nations would have outstripped the West within a decade . |
| 9 | Yet only weeks ago he was saying that existing derelict land was needed for greening the cities , and providing amenities for citizens . |
| 10 | It was found that certain valuable cash crops like coffee , cocoa , oil palm and pepper grew well along rivers and that under the forest there was probably enough iron ore to meet world demand for 400 years , large deposits of bauxite , gold , nickel , copper and tin . |
| 11 | It was known that underground Japanese oil storage facilities had not been destroyed and had even been put into a state for use in some areas . |
| 12 | From the beginning it was appreciated that local deaf organisations would object to home-to-home visits as intrusions on their pitch , rivalling their own money-raising efforts . |
| 13 | It was announced that remaining unresolved issues would be taken up by the START negotiating teams in Geneva , and both sides stressed their determination to complete the drafting by the end of 1990 . |
| 14 | An imperial tradition lasting for more than two centuries was ended on Oct. 5 when it was announced that federal Prime Minister Paul Keating and Queen Elizabeth II had agreed that Australian citizens would no longer be nominated for the receipt of UK honours . |
| 15 | On March 9 it was announced that multiparty presidential and legislative elections would be held on Nov. 15 and Dec. 13 , 1992 . |
| 16 | It was believed that Western military preponderance throughout most of Asia and Africa had been undercut by the balancing effect of the Soviet Union , which made formal American military alignment with Third World states both more hazardous and anachronistic . |
| 17 | The first signs of trouble came when the Ynys Mon Express of Sunday , July 19 had to be diesel piloted from Rhyl after it was ruled that Black Five 5305 was a particular risk . |
| 18 | It was reported subsequently that Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin had complained privately to the USA when it was learned that Saudi F-15 planes had been moved to Tabuk , 200 km from Eilat in southern Israel . |
| 19 | Leaders of the Muslim ‘ parliament ’ disclosed the plans exclusively to The People after it was learned that unscrupulous British dealers have been selling ordinary meat as Halal |
| 20 | It was admitted that high explosive shells were dangerous . |
| 21 | Direct evidence was obtained that certain ovarian hormones , the oestrogens , were responsible for the growth of the breasts , both in humans and other mammals . |
| 22 | In a series of tests it was discovered that large predatory fish from the Pacific avoided sea snakes when they were offered as food , but that fish from the Atlantic lacked this caution and attacked them . |
| 23 | In sections 6.2 and 6.3 it was established that time-dependent potential differences across the secondary and primary windings of a unity-coupled , lossless transformer are in the same ratio as the turns ratio between these windings . |
| 24 | Finally , it was suggested that widespread philosophical , political and economic beliefs serve to make the relative small amount of measured redistribution that appears to take place the order not only for today but for tomorrow as well . |
| 25 | At first instance in Wormell v RHM Agriculture ( East ) Ltd [ 1986 ] 1 WLR 336 , it was held that accompanying written instructions were " goods supplied under the contract " . |