Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was eventually agreed that sovereignty would be transferred to a United States of Indonesia ( USI ) before 30 December 1949 . |
| 2 | Before all these developments it was widely accepted that knowledge was something that was ‘ transmitted by words and absorbed by words ’ , and suddenly when faced with ‘ establishing the criteria for the arts as higher education subjects … we were forced to look at these subjects … and at what way they contributed to the role of higher education … |
| 3 | In this new environment it was widely believed that exchange rates , freed from restrictive intervention , would adjust reasonably smoothly to divergences in competitiveness , as predicted by the purchasing power parity theorem . |
| 4 | At the same time it was widely known that unemployment relief , while inadequate , could only be paid at all as a result of direct subsidy from the Reich . |
| 5 | Although the USA had been successful in persuading the UN Trusteeship Council ( where the Soviet Union had no power of veto ) to declare the trusteeship terminated in 1986 , little diplomatic recognition had been extended to the FSM or to the Marshall Islands , since the view was widely held that termination could become effective only with the approval of the Security Council . |
| 6 | Even up to the end of the eighteenth century it was widely held that mind resided in the spaces within the brain , the ventricles , rather than in the neural tissue itself . |
| 7 | That was one reason why I was so exhausted that morning . |
| 8 | Busacher was so enraged that diplomacy , tact , talking Gesner down into finishing the performance , all vanished into the maw of his rage . |
| 9 | He was merely perpetrating that deprivation . |
| 10 | It was obviously felt that protectionism , a policy which Austen Chamberlain 's father had encouraged , might attract Austen and his supporters back to the centre of the Conservative Party . |
| 11 | A leading Israeli journalist was soon to ascribe that misjudgment to the ‘ historic blindness ’ that has always bedevilled Israeli governments and public , ensuring that developments which , to outsiders , might seem all but pre-ordained come as a very disagreeable shock to them . |
| 12 | It was thus agreed that redemption , to the sun of £100 only ( 4 x £25 bonds ) , be drawn for and should a bondholder so drawn insist on taking his money then the Bolney Syndicate would , if necessary , buy the bonds so saving the Club 's strained resources . |
| 13 | Certainly not a habitual drinker , he was nevertheless sitting that night in the darkness with a bottle of whisky , prepared for excess . |
| 14 | She was so vulnerable to him that part of her was already accepting that defeat was inevitable , that only Luke could be the one to end their affair , but at the same time pride was demanding resistance , refusing to submit to the humiliation of a physical surrender to the man who had called her a liar , accused her of infidelity — the man who had hurt her so badly . |
| 15 | I was just thinking that way as well . |
| 16 | I was just letting that record finish . |
| 17 | Since it was generally believed that emancipation depended on women 's participation in production , demands were made to free women from domestic slavery by the provision of communal facilities for childcare and cooking . |
| 18 | And it was generally accepted that Grandad William Tallentire was capable of making his way in any society , so it really was n't a clear case of Grandma marrying beneath her . |
| 19 | It was usually supposed that teaching should follow the order of discovery , for then the student is made to begin with familiar things . |
| 20 | Coins are generally found in the same region as their mint , since the function of a mint was usually to supply that region with coinage . |
| 21 | He tried to persuade his master to be stricter with the children , and was always complaining that Heathcliff and Catherine did not spend enough time studying the Bible or attending church services . |
| 22 | Assistant bar manager Sarah , 21 , said : ‘ I was always taught that honesty is the best policy . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ But my aim was always to get that ball . |
| 24 | And , while she was still digesting that piece of information , he added , ‘ And I can think of dozens of things I 'd like to do , beginning with a kiss and ending — ’ He broke off and gave a faint grin . |
| 25 | It was further agreed that information and advice on Actively Seeking Work should be made widely available to claimants in West Belfast and that , wherever appropriate , the injustices of the legislation should be highlighted . |
| 26 | We were told that the papers in the case were being examined and it was clearly implied that action would be taken . |
| 27 | Those whose interests were prejudiced by the events of 787 are likely to have joined the ranks of Offa 's enemies , and it was later believed that Archbishop Jaenberht even plotted with Charlemagne against Offa to guarantee him free entry into Kent if he should invade . |
| 28 | The relatively uncontrolled use of herbicides in the 1950s and 1960s was temporarily to solve that problem . |
| 29 | It was also accepted that repetition of the offences was unlikely . |
| 30 | Mozart reported to Constanze that Carl loved the opera ( which was also attended that night by his old enemy Salieri ) , and then went on to discuss the shortcomings of Carl 's education — just like any other anxious parent . |