Example sentences of "was [verb] [that] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was intended that all parties should agree on two new treaties at the December 1991 European Council meeting at Maastricht , Netherlands , which would then require approval by member country parliaments before they entered into force . |
| 2 | The Consumer Congress called for a working party to draft a code of good practice and it was intended that working party should make use of the information generated by the 1988 transport workshop , whose discussions were reported to the congress . |
| 3 | However , it seems unlikely that it was intended that less disclosure should be made to private customers than to professionals . |
| 4 | However , as it was intended that this study should be of particular use to the suppliers of information , it was therefore biased towards the first stage of environmental scanning ; that is , the gathering of information . |
| 5 | It was intended that these measures should provide the tenant with a defence against the unscrupulous landlord , both in terms of protection against unfair eviction and also as a guarantee of ‘ fair ’ rents , especially for those on low incomes . |
| 6 | It was calculated that 170 per cent more on books and other educational materials was spent on grammar than on secondary-modern pupils . |
| 7 | It was calculated that each child needed one pound a week for food and clothing . |
| 8 | It was calculated that 65,000 of the country 's registered 76,000 road vehicles were used by or for tourists . |
| 9 | It was calculated that 80 per cent of patients would need to be moved between wards to achieve sectorization . |
| 10 | Using the end point of investigator 's assessment of remission , it was calculated that 226 patients were required to show that fluticasone propionate was at worst 15% inferior to prednisolone . |
| 11 | The Pilgrim Trust 's survey of a sample of unemployed men included some 170,000 wives and it was calculated that these women ate only 70 per cent of the calories consumed by men , rather than the 85 per cent recommended by dieticians . |
| 12 | It was intimated that future UN Security Council unanimity over action against Iraq would be in peril if the USA was seen to be protecting Israel . |
| 13 | I remind him that there has been criticism historically when statements have been made about incidents in Great Britain , when it was commented that similar statements had not been made in the context of Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | It was emphasized that this barter was worked out in accordance with world prices . |
| 15 | Drivers were asked to give the risk rating immediately they heard the tone and it was emphasized that this rating should be one of what they were already feeling when they heard the tone rather than a subsequent assessment of the risk present . |
| 16 | Neither system was wholly satisfactory , but during the public inquiry into the Trident accident at Staines in 1972 evidence was heard that other aircraft had suffered similar happenings ( though in less critical circumstances and there had been no accident ) and the question was put : ‘ Why were these incidents not reported under the voluntary system ? ’ |
| 17 | Try as she might , she could n't stop her eyes from straying back in his direction time and time again , and every time they had it was to see that same unfathomable look on his face . |
| 18 | Despite the temptation to accumulate treasure it was recognized that one way of stimulating gifts was to spend a sizable proportion on the further embellishment of buildings and the enrichment of furnishings and vestments . |
| 19 | It was recognized that accurate message construction presupposed the capacity to identify the critical features of an item-that is , those features that uniquely identified the target . |
| 20 | From the start of welfare provision for the disabled it was recognized that social workers would have a key role to play in putting the handicapped in touch with the provision available . |
| 21 | It was recognized that this would inevitably deprive many parts of Britain , especially Wales and Scotland , of passenger services altogether ( Aldcroft 1968 ) . |
| 22 | The DES was suggesting that 30,000 places could be used for diversification . |
| 23 | It was arranged that later in the afternoon they would be conducted to the Monastery of Saint James ; they would be lodged that night in the village , and would return again to the church the following day for their devotions . |
| 24 | They could well imagine the panic that would now ensue at Russian military headquarters once it was realised that all their previous secrets had been lost . |
| 25 | At an early stage it was realised that one factor which can inhibit labour mobility is a lack of mutual understanding of qualification systems between member states . |
| 26 | Several of these were also in packages managed by other people and it was realised that two new modules would be required . |
| 27 | In order to meet these requirements , it was realised that some form of detector-operated system would be essential , and this led to the development of the zoned system in which open sprinklers were used , mounted vertically one above the other on a drop pipe and fed from a ‘ zone control valve ’ which was opened directly by the response of the detector to the fire . |
| 28 | The crunch came when it was realised that these competent women had a propensity to marry ( Martindale , 1939 ) . |
| 29 | In 1972 it was realised that this property depended on a separate histamine receptor ( H2 ) which was different from histamine ( H1 ) receptors in the lung and elsewhere , which were responsible for the allergic action of histamine . |
| 30 | Later it was realised that this problem was particularly associated with phenformin and , provided metformin is avoided in the presence of renal or hepatic impairment , tissue hypoxia or significant ketone body production , it is safe ( Bergman et al , 1978 ; Luft et al , 1978 ; Nattrass & Alberti , 1978 ) . |