Example sentences of "was [verb] that a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was intended that a consultative document should be published in April . |
| 2 | Donkey Lane It was intimated that a considerable number of horses were galloping along this road which was bound to lead to deterioration of the surface . |
| 3 | Donkey Lane It was intimated that a considerable number of horses were galloping along this road which was bound to lead to deterioration of the surface . |
| 4 | From Vitebsk it was heard that a railway-wagon workshop meeting convened on 30 March with the aim of helping in the requisition of church valuables broke up because of the ‘ thunderous outcries of believers ’ . |
| 5 | For example it was highlighted that a disproportionate number of Black women remained in refuge accommodation for longer periods before they were rehoused . |
| 6 | ( To suggest otherwise is to imply that Bukharin was suggesting that a proletarian state would regress back beyond state capitalism . ) |
| 7 | Di Scott , of Fairbridge , explained : ‘ After the ship had been in operation for some time it was realised that a great deal of money was needed for maintenance and running costs . |
| 8 | Mr Runciman said the first warning of problems came in August when it was realised that a major contract expected in the first half of the financial year was not going to materialise . |
| 9 | At the time set for the sale , it was realised that a special trainload of buyers , pressmen and spectators was due to arrive at Ayr railway station and the sale was delayed to await their arrival . |
| 10 | Senile dementia and other forms of mental illness presented a problem and it was recommended that a new building accommodating six beds and one padded room should be provided at an estimated cost of £2,400 . |
| 11 | A week later it was reported that a two-month-old economic and information blockade was being stepped up by Georgian militants , who were preventing convoys of emergency food supplies for Ossete communities arriving from the North Ossetia autonomous region [ for map see p. 37971 ] . |
| 12 | It was reported that a new wave of investigations into participants in the April-June pro-democracy protests was launched in November . |
| 13 | Weeks later , it was reported that a new one was being grown — good spring growth no doubt , being that time of year . |
| 14 | It was reported that a small altar dominated his room , decorated with the withered heads of animals forensics could not identify , its centre-piece an idol of such explicitly sexual a nature no newspaper dared publish a sketch of it , let alone a photograph . |
| 15 | On April 7 , 1990 , it was reported that a quarterly survey of corporate partnerships , undertaken by UK accountants Peat Marwick McLintock showed that COCOM rules were being circumvented by the rise in the number of small joint ventures . |
| 16 | Only the other day it was reported that a young mother of a seven-year-old child had taken the Territorial Army to court for refusing to let her become a paratrooper … and won ! |
| 17 | On Oct. 5 it was reported that a former Minister of State , Ghulam Akbar Lasi , had been given a one-year prison sentence for overspending during the 1988 election campaign . |
| 18 | Subsequently , on Feb. 17 , it was reported that a long-range airforce division with nuclear capacity had put itself under Ukrainian jurisdiction , and that its commander , who had been dismissed by the long-range Air Force Commander , Col.-Gen . |
| 19 | Further studies have shown that RJ2.2.5 may lack a factor required for the activity of a MHC class II specific enhancer function ( 18,19 ) ; in particular , it was reported that a conserved cis-acting regulatory signal of the MHC class II promoters , the X-box , enhances MHC class II expression in Raji , but not in RJ2.2.5 ( 19 ) . |
| 20 | The Serbian blockade of ports from Oct. 3 reportedly created severe shortages of water and electricity in Dubrovnik , and on Oct. 28 it was reported that a four-day-old ceasefire agreed between the JNA and Dubrovnik city officials had broken down , the JNA having issued an ultimatum for all weapons in the city to be surrendered on Oct. 26 . |
| 21 | He had returned to Poland on Jan. 4 to answer the charge , and on Jan. 7 it was reported that a lesser charge was being substituted because prosecutors had ruled that Tyminski had attacked Mazowiecki as a rival candidate rather than as the holder of state office . |
| 22 | A cheque for £400 had been received from the Radcliffe Trustees , Mr Park had collected £389 of the £521 from ratepayers , but on 18 December 1896 , it was reported that a further debit of £21 6s 6d had been received from the Locomotive Department , increasing the total to £2,935 10s 7d , and none of the ratepayers who owed the uncollected £132 were property owners , so there was little or no hope of collecting it ; that was written off . |
| 23 | When it was reported that a considerable number of young children in the house were not eating their breakfast , which consisted of porridge and bread , he recommended that , for children under sixteen , the same diet should be given for breakfast as for supper . |
| 24 | It was reported that an extraordinary UDPM congress set for March 28-31 would discuss the transition to a multiparty system . |
| 25 | It was stressed that a third vaccine — MMR2 — was perfectly safe and there were sufficient stocks for doctors to meet demand . |
| 26 | A month later , it was resolved that a proper place should be provided for the Professor 's dissections and lectures , and advertisements were placed accordingly in publications including the Morning Post and the Daily Advertiser . |
| 27 | It was expected that a UN-supervised referendum to resolve the conflict over the region [ for details and background see pp. 37628-29 ] would be held in early 1991 . |
| 28 | It was expected that a similar equation would govern the proton , the only other supposedly elementary particle known at that time . |
| 29 | It was expected that an economic upturn would lead to attempts to repay foreign debts and thus gain Libya access to fresh lines of international credit . |
| 30 | It was argued that a lengthy period within a mental hospital could itself produce symptoms of social disorientation , apathy , loss of initiative and so on , which amounted to institutional neurosis , an illness that could persist long after the original illness had cleared up . |