Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] that it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The President also stated that it was time " to offer our hand to the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe " and time " to build on our new relationship with the Soviet Union ; to endorse and encourage a peaceful process of internal change towards democracy and economic opportunity " . |
| 2 | Thus , when his secretary of the treasury ventured on one occasion to suggest that colonial rule was more efficient than the successor regimes in the newly independent states , the president brusquely retorted that it was his " personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than accept the political domination of another government even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living " . |
| 3 | This accurate boring mill also meant that it was easy to convert the engine to a double acting one , i.e. one where the piston is pushed both ways in the cylinder . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The blurred sense of catastrophe usually insisted that it was both . |
| 7 | The hon. Gentleman then implied that it was difficult for people to obtain certificates because of the cost of obtaining the qualifications . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The government now denied that it was granted the terms it received under the Large Combustion Plant Directive on the basis that it would be fitting FGD so it could continue to burn high-sulphur coal . |
| 10 | Como soon discovered that it was in the nature of winners to enjoy their winnings , as Barbarossa stayed in the north in an attempt to subjugate all the city states . |