Example sentences of "[adv] it was [verb] that [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was agreed that while Mrs MacDonagh would go on looking after the two youngest Milligans during the day , Dermot , Fergal and Mike , the eldest brothers , would take over as soon as they were back from school . |
| 2 | Finally it was suggested that if her father continued to be unkind or unpleasant , the only way she could increase the level of care she provided would be to move away from her family and live with him . |
| 3 | Ten years ago it was supposed that when the database was up and running it would be relatively easy to find additional funds from outside to cover the running costs . |
| 4 | Twenty years ago it was expected that if you trained you would surely be accepted into the membership of your trade union and be given the chance to compete for the roles that were suitable . |
| 5 | Eventually it was decided that if Kalchu refused to pay the money the Tibetan should be allowed to kill the dog . |
| 6 | This body had been set up by Bismarck in 1886 , when it was estimated that if the Ostflucht continued , 3 million Germans would have left their homes in the Prussian east by the start of the twentieth century . |
| 7 | It builds on the argument in the preceding section where it was argued that because the cat sees and tries to extricate the ball stuck in the tree , it thereby manifests only those minimal beliefs that we would attribute directly to a human being in similar circumstances . |
| 8 | This caveat was echoed in Sybron Corp v Rochem Ltd [ 1983 ] 3 WLR 713 where it was said that if an employee were required to report each and every breach of duty by fellow employees this would ruin good industrial relations . |
| 9 | It was recently applied in Commercial Plastics Ltd v Vincent [ 1965 ] 1 QB 623 where it was said that as the provision was a single one and could not correctly be divisible into two or more parts severance could not take place . |
| 10 | The leading authority was the House of Lords case of Re W ( 1971 ) AC 682 where it was held that when dealing with the question of withholding consent , the test was reasonableness , not culpability or indifference , and although the child 's welfare per se was not the test , it was relevant . |
| 11 | He asked why it was said that if Denmark and Britain rejected the treaty they would have to leave the EC , when this had not been said of France or Germany . |