Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] that it [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poets were so highly esteemed that it was said that a Delhi-wallah visiting a friend in another part of India would always take with him as a present not jewels or hookahs or fine weapons but a few of Mir Taqi Mir 's new verses copied on to a single sheet of paper . |
| 2 | Later , in England , it occurred to her that it might have been said ironically , but by then she had forgotten the context and intonation of it , could only remember that it was said under hot sun outside the Maison Carrée in Nîmes , where the air was fluent and the stones shone . |
| 3 | quoted with approval a passage in Jervis on Coroners , 9th ed. ( 1957 ) , p. 179 , now to be found in the 10th ed. p. 197 , that any conflict between a verdict of lack of care and rule 33 of the Coroners Rules 1953 , now rule 42 of the Rules of 1984 , can be obviated by making sure that the verdict does not state that the death was aggravated by the lack of care of any particular person or persons but merely states that it was aggravated by lack of care . |
| 4 | The most this can mean is that the people who voted for the party did so knowing that it was planning to do certain things , and that therefore these voters can be assumed to have consented to those plans . |
| 5 | HAMMERSMITH and Fulham Council in west London continued to take out options on the London money market even after the intervention of the district auditor , wrongly thinking that it was reducing its holdings , the High Court was told yesterday . |
| 6 | But Lokata had not realised that it was treading on a defence secret . |
| 7 | ‘ I consider that in enacting the Damages ( Scotland ) Act , parliament did not consider that it was making any change to the right of parents to sue for damages for the death of a child who had sustained injuries prior to birth , had been born alive and had subsequently died in consequence of these pre-natal injuries . ’ |
| 8 | Although all felt that they had found a means of living which enabled them to be open to this reality , they nevertheless say that it was experienced as a gift and a grace beyond anything that could be achieved by conscious effort . |
| 9 | I used to view the European Community as being an economic and political bloc confronting the East and COMECON , and that is why I did not believe that it was uniting Europe . |
| 10 | He could not believe that it was wavering now . |
| 11 | He still could n't entirely believe it , In the sense that he could not believe that it was happening to him , that he was so vulnerable to such a common , almost hackneyed feeling . |
| 12 | She did not believe that it was going to change the world or that every minute detail was worth the drama and emotionalism that the others seemed to want to pour into it . |
| 13 | Cleo and Javelot soon discovered that it was occupied by five individuals , who were stowed away in far chambers like ideas in a vast empty brain . |
| 14 | ‘ I can not say that it was withdrawn for its political content . ’ |
| 15 | Although the Government 's recent decision to pull all atomic reactors from the sell-off programme and scrap the construction of three Pressurised Water Reactors was expected to freeze Britain 's civil nuclear programme for at least five years , BNFL yesterday disclosed that it was looking at ways of diversifying into generating power . |
| 16 | In a move that was mandated by the Office of Telecommunications last summer , British Telecommunications Plc yesterday announced that it was cutting by £40 the cost of a new line for residential customers : from June 1 , it will cost £99 ; a new line for a single line business will also cost £99 , down from £152.75 ; residential customers will also now be able to spread the cost of phone service connection by paying an initial charge of £25 and four quarterly payments of £25 — which sounds like a great deal … |
| 17 | THE Air Accidents Investigation Branch of the Department of Transport yesterday announced that it was investigating the accident at Edinburgh Airport on Thursday night when Gulzar Sattar , 32 , a technical supervisor , of Harvie Avenue , Newton Mearns , died . |
| 18 | Afterwards , he could always claim that it was sent to an old or wrong address by mistake , or that it must have got lost in the post . |
| 19 | The government also announced that it was beginning a public awareness campaign , and would draft new legislation to fill in gaps in its 1960 wildlife protection laws . |
| 20 | It also announced that it was reducing customs duty on sales from such zones to the domestic market . |
| 21 | One feminist , Mrs Wolstenholme-Elmy ( who as a young woman determined to follow Mary Wollstonecraft 's example and live with her lover , until on becoming pregnant she took the advice of fellow suffragists and married ) accepted the idea that menstruation was essentially pathological , although she also argued that it was caused by men 's brutality . |
| 22 | The pro-government Republican Party , until June a member of the Russian Movement for Democratic Reforms , also announced that it was intending to put pressure on the government and President in support of reforms . |
| 23 | On Jan. 30 the government also announced that it was sending to Israel eight launchers for Patriot missiles ( equipped to deter aircraft rather than Scud missiles ) , eight " sniffer " vehicles for chemical warfare detection , 50 similar vehicles from the former East German army and a commitment to provide two submarines subject to approval by the relevant parliamentary committees . |
| 24 | It probably also means that it was issued while Clovis was still a pagan . |
| 25 | From the pink frilly garment , Clara would have deduced that the baby must be a girl , but she clearly remembered that it was called James . |
| 26 | Bull also said that it was committed to maintain binary-level compatibility with IBM systems , including the future multi-processors — which means the establishment of an Applications Binary Interface that both will follow . |
| 27 | Of the country 's three nuclear reactors in Yongbyon , one 50-100 megawatt plant was not connected to the national grid , thereby indicating that it was intended for weapons production . |
| 28 | Christopher swiftly arranged for a six foot wall to be built along his boundary , and angrily muttered that it was going to have to be the Scottish islands . |
| 29 | Having relied on the administration to perpetrate abuses on their behalf , they now believed that it was abandoning them . |
| 30 | It was for many years claimed to be the earliest example of the true arch in Europe , but it is now recognised that it was constructed in the sixth century as an open drain and that it was only roofed over with its present stone vault of three concentric rings of radiating voussoirs in 184 B.C. Its exit into the Tiber can still be seen in Rome near the Ponte Rotto ( 68 ) . |