Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As regards the legal position of some 350,000 Chinese living in Indonesia , it was eventually agreed that China would offer them citizenship , and that those who declined this offer would be granted permanent residency rights by the Indonesian government . |
| 2 | All visitors were exhorted to treat the poor courteously , but in general it was optimistically believed that women would be able to talk to women irrespective of social class : not until the 1900s were the difficulties of cross-class communication acknowledged more honestly . |
| 3 | It was widely noted that Bush 's euphoric statements proclaiming the transformation of Europe contrasted sharply with Havel 's sombre assessment of Czechoslovakia 's progress in the past year . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , it was widely suspected that Thomas 's race was an important consideration in his nomination , for not only was it politically expedient to maintain a black representative on the Supreme Court , but to have secured confirmation from the Democrat-controlled Senate for a white male conservative would have been almost impossible . |
| 5 | It was widely believed that Exxon did not intend to restart the cleanup operation in the spring , for which it was condemned by environmentalists , the Alaskan state government and the local population of the Alaskan town of Valdez . |
| 6 | It was widely believed that middle and low-level government employees accepted gifts in return for favours . |
| 7 | It was widely believed that Churchill had been converted to the European cause during the war , and that he had kept the flame of union alight . |
| 8 | With no likelihood of progress in the dispute , it was widely believed that Yeltsin had cancelled his visit in order to avoid a failure to achieve progress on the issue similar to that which had accompanied the visit by the then Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in April 1991 . |
| 9 | Despite official claims to the contrary it was widely believed that China was maintaining its supplies to the Khmers Rouges and considerable stockpiles of arms were thought to have been accumulated . |
| 10 | The trial was expected to continue for some time and it was widely believed that evidence would be given which would incriminate politicians still active . |
| 11 | Göring added that it was widely believed that Poland intended to annex East Prussia and Danzig in the near future . |
| 12 | It was widely believed that North Korea had the capacity — or was on the verge of achieving it — to produce a nuclear weapon . |
| 13 | It was widely believed that Paul Muite would be persuaded by younger members of the party to become the fourth FORD candidate . |
| 14 | It was widely believed that Eleanor Coade had invented a new process for making artificial stone . |
| 15 | At the time it was widely believed that Sugar would not be returning to operational flying , as the following press release issued at the time seemed to indicate : |
| 16 | Whether Mrs Thatcher herself was implicated in the leak is not known , but it was widely believed that Brittan resigned to save her skin . |
| 17 | While it was widely believed that Bush was not as emotionally committed to the SDI programme as Reagan , his administration was proceeding with the development of revised versions of the concept , notably " Brilliant Pebbles ' . |
| 18 | It was widely believed that City were no more guilty than a great many other clubs keen to do well in the emergency competitions . |
| 19 | It was widely assumed that China , with her vast size and resources , would be the victor , and that the status quo in East Asia would remain unchanged . |
| 20 | It was widely assumed that motion pictures would be sexually suggestive and probably explicit , the whole tone seemed secular and irresponsible , and few doubted that children and the weak-minded were being pointed towards crime and degeneracy . |
| 21 | IT was widely assumed that Sir Lawrie Barratt was working for nothing when he re-took the reins of his housebuilding empire last summer . |
| 22 | Certainly , in the mid-nineteenth century it was widely felt that life in the previous century had been greatly superior and that the increase in juvenile crime was a blot on this age . |
| 23 | It was widely felt that Théodore , a bitter critic of Aristide who wished severely to restrict his future powers , was not guaranteed to be acceptable to the army or business sectors which were not expected easily to drop their opposition to Aristide 's return . |
| 24 | As one of Isomura 's strongest supporters , it was widely felt that Ozawa 's position could become untenable in the event of Isomura 's defeat on April 7 . |
| 25 | While it was widely felt that CPA formalised good practice , some respondents said it included too many patients , impinged on clinical judgement , and required more resources to implement properly . |
| 26 | It was widely felt that Kohl should have visited both this site and other scenes where anti-foreigner and anti-Semitic attacks had taken place . |
| 27 | But in yesterday 's papers it was widely claimed that friends of the Prince of Wales are behind a campaign of vilification . |
| 28 | Occasionally it was conceded that New York had elements of sophistication but it was widely appreciated that film tastes and standards were determined in the populous and philistine Midwest . |
| 29 | It was widely considered that US co-operation was essential to the success of any initiative on global warming , since one-fifth of all " greenhouse gases " ( carbon dioxide , chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs , nitrous oxide , methane and surface ozone ) were produced in the USA . |
| 30 | It was widely thought that discussions over his release had been the main obstacle in the talks between Meyer and Ramaphosa . |