Example sentences of "was [verb] that [pos pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Then I was told that my confirmed interview with Ortega was not going to happen . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Erm , he he he was saying that his young boy of eight , he does n't allow to play out alone . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Birds respond to a wide range of sounds but for many years it was assumed that their low-frequency hearing was poorer than ours . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I was hoping that our humble efforts would help bring S.B. back . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Then she had been forced to leave when it was discovered that her real father was a white man . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | M was informed that his fellow directors had lost confidence in him , that they were not satisfied with his performance and that he must improve . |