Example sentences of "was [verb] that in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In January 1990 it was disclosed that in 1976 a meltdown at Greifswald had only narrowly been averted . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Later I was told that in criminal trials counsel are not permitted to talk to their witnesses during adjournments . |
| 9 | Despite this it was found that in all three areas of Wales the amount of land owned was almost the same . |
| 10 | It was found that in all animals the mechanism of the body is set up in such a way that the head leads a movement and the body then follows . |
| 11 | In 1988 it was announced that in future government grants in support of housing association projects would fall from 100 per cent to an average of 75 per cent , the balance having to be provided from private sources . |
| 12 | However , the second notice was clearly given in breach of contract and it was indicated that in any subsequent wrongful dismissal action , damages might include a sum for the loss of the right to claim unfair dismissal to which the employee would have been entitled had the contract been honoured . |
| 13 | Neither , however , was complete withdrawal of the French from Indo-China for , as it was assumed that in all likelihood Indo-China would be taken over by the militant communist group , at best there might follow a transition period marked by chaos and terrorist activities , which would then create a political vacuum into which the Chinese inevitably would be drawn or pushed . |
| 14 | As beta values were also randomly assigned to portfolios it was assumed that in each case the average beta value would approach unity . |
| 15 | For the plaintiffs it was submitted that in each case either the only relevant contract was between the borrower and the valuer or , if there was a contract to which the building society was a party , its obligation was limited to instructing a competent valuer . |
| 16 | It was estimated that in 1990 Japan 's drift net fishery was responsible for the deaths of 41,000,000 sea creatures other than those it was seeking to catch . |
| 17 | Despite this , the House of Lords rejected any concept of commercial equivalence so that Lord Atkin held : It was contended that in all commercial contracts the question was whether there was " substantial " compliance with the contract : there must always be some margin and it is for the tribunal of fact to determine whether the margin is exceeded or not . |
| 18 | In the Offer for Sale document published at the time of the Company 's flotation in 1986 , it was stated that in due course consideration would be given to the introduction of a Share Option Scheme for Executive Directors and senior management but that no such scheme would be operated without the prior approval of shareholders and in any event not before 1988 at the earliest . |
| 19 | And it was striking that in both instances the referenda did stimulate a serious and extensive debate about the matters which were to be decided on — or at least voted on . |