Example sentences of "[noun] that it was [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like all the other young men I had imagined that after a few brisk preliminaries I would be sitting in an aeroplane , learning to fly , but it turned out that this was so far in the future that it was hardly mentioned . |
| 2 | Military equipment which had belonged to the East German army had been supplied to Turkey during the Gulf war in 1991 on condition that it was only used to defend the borders of Turkey or other NATO member-states . |
| 3 | Frey 's attempt to discredit these ‘ simple ’ desires will not work here ; and for the same reasons that it was finally discredited earlier in this chapter . |
| 4 | The Borrowdale mines in the lane District , discovered in 1564 , yielded such fine graphite that it was jealously guarded , extractions only being sold for six weeks of the year . |
| 5 | The worst bits in the book raise a suspicion that it was hastily written , or not rigorously edited : ‘ I mean , we were teenagers . |
| 6 | Future prosecution for gross human rights violations was left to the judiciary despite widespread opinion that it was irredeemably tainted by past association with the military . |
| 7 | Following the charity event of last year The Rainforest Ball ( which was attended by so many of the titled upper classes that it was unofficially known as Toff Aid ) , attention is now focused on the Altamura Forest , Italy , the proposed site of a hydroelectric dam . |
| 8 | So lowly , indeed , was the job that it was long considered too insignificant to warrant a credit on the programme . |
| 9 | It seems clear then that the Formalist position on all these issues ( authors , reality and ideas ) is not just an arbitrary preference , but that it stems from the concepts of defamiliarisation and literariness , whose differential basis will always serve to define literature in opposition to the things that it was traditionally viewed as expressing . |
| 10 | Add to the beast 's problems that it was already enfeebled by lack of nutrition , and one can see that its chances of survival were really pretty low . |
| 11 | For — contrary to the legend that it was all thought through in a day — this theory was worked out in three main stages over the next half year . |
| 12 | For some farmers and landowners the major impact of the newcomers has therefore been political rather than social , for their arrival in the village has ensured that landownership is no longer the automatic passport to the political domination of the countryside that it was once considered to be . |
| 13 | Britain will ask the European Court of Justice to declare the law invalid , on the ground that it was falsely tabled as a ‘ health-and-safety ’ measure — with majority voting , so Britain had no veto power . |
| 14 | Supported by the Government Agent , Ridgeway refused to do so on the ground that it was commonly believed in the district that the men were guilty . |
| 15 | Our plea to the Government is that they take a leaf out of their own book on the independent living fund , which was set up in haste and has played a role that it was never meant to play . |
| 16 | So much lava flowed into the Skaftar valley that it was completely filled and lava began to spill out over the surrounding countryside . |
| 17 | The ILP had shrunk to a small faction by 1940 , its only significance being that it was well represented in the Commons . |
| 18 | The Palestinians have also successfully challenged America 's assumption that it was pre-eminently qualified to act as peace broker , an assumption that had underscored US policy in the Middle East since 1967 . |
| 19 | He gave the bad leg a gentle kick , to be rewarded with an agonized moan and the information that it was certainly broken , probably in two or three places . |
| 20 | After the horses were released from the machine and the ditch , we walked leisurely to the inn , only regretting that the clouds hung so heavily over Loch Maree that it was completely obscured . |
| 21 | So dominant was the Weybridge bowl that it was later accused of stifling the development of racing car design in the UK . |
| 22 | It is likely that it was originally for wool drying , although there is a local tradition that it was also used for the drying of teazles , imported from Somerset , hence its local name of the Teazel Tower . |
| 23 | Even Japan had such a low ratio of imports to GNP that it was repeatedly accused by Washington of covert protectionism , worked through its opaque distribution system . |
| 24 | The intention of this law is in doubt ; the idea that it was specifically directed against Kimon , whose mother was Thracian , fails because Kimon is now thought to have died as early as 451 , too early for the law to have touched him . |
| 25 | Years and heredity within the Anglican Church ( his father had been a colonial bishop ) had so formed his manners and speech that it was sometimes thought so . |
| 26 | At one extreme was the suggestion that at least 40 weeks of the training period should be spent acquiring the necessary accounting skills ; at the other , that there should be no requirement to record accounting separately on the grounds that it was adequately covered within the auditing function . |
| 27 | She told Vanity Fair that it was well known in Washington that President Bush had had an extra-marital affair . |
| 28 | Henry was an exacting master , possessed of so much energy that it was popularly rumoured that he could fly , so swiftly did he travel from place to place . |
| 29 | One special feature of the materials is the fact that it was thoroughly tried and tested by the authors and their colleagues over a number of years before reaching its present form . |
| 30 | The advent of the boiled bait , not too long before the hair-rig , married very well to this new technique , for it later became apparent that the success of the hair-rig owed a lot to the fact that it was generally used with boilies . |