Example sentences of "[noun sg] that it [was/were] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The platform may have been left , although there is no indication that it was used until Stretford Bridge began to appear in the timetable as a request stop in 1890 . |
| 2 | It was ordered that this memorandum should be entered in the minutes , but there is no indication that it was considered or discussed . |
| 3 | The calf was in such bad condition that it was decided that its only chance of survival was to transfer it to Colombo Zoo for treatment . |
| 4 | When the Almoravid general sent a token force of twenty mounted warriors to the gates of the city , their arrival caused such consternation that it was believed that there were actually 500 or more . |
| 5 | Madam er deputy speaker , there is a feeling abroad in the country that an audit certificate is rather like an M O T certificate , it 's good for the minute that it was granted but it is perfectly useless thereafter . |
| 6 | Although he made such an excellent impression on the journey that it was suggested that he should remain with the Princess as her secretary , he left the royal party at Utrecht . |
| 7 | a statement that it was made or subsisted during the year the names of the directors and connected persons concerned principal terms |
| 8 | Erm I , I think it was er you know a good thing that in a way that it was parted and made er staff , you know , training officer and business you know , sort of thing . |
| 9 | Although electrical excitability in the nervous system had been demonstrated before the beginning of the nineteenth century , it was not until the late nineteenth century that it was shown that the brain was spontaneously electrically active Jeannerod 1985 ) , and it was only in the 1930s , after the invention of the valve amplifier , that it was possible to make meaningful records of this activity . |
| 10 | Can , can I make a suggestion to you on this point and that is that rather than worrying about the date of the document itself which makes sense just to put January or something like that , what you actually keep a careful record of and this can be with the issue and such like , is the date from which that procedure is required to be worked to , which would be the issue date as opposed to any date that it was typed or agreed or anything like that . |
| 11 | As that subsection gives the court a discretion to stay or suspend execution of the order , it can not be the position that it was intended that the landlord could take the matter into his own hands . |
| 12 | As a result the warbler increased in numbers until by 1988 the population had built to the extent that it was decided that some birds could be caught and transported to the island of Aride , some twelve kilometres north , which is managed by the UK-based Royal Society for Nature Conservation . |
| 13 | In the same year as Jacobson published his experiments , a ‘ failure to replicate , report signed by twenty-three authors appeared in the major journal , Science , and the matter might have rested there but for the fact that it was noticed that the method which Jacobson had used to extract RNA from his rat brains also liberated a good deal of protein and other contaminants . |
| 14 | In the case of Monetary Union , the situation arises not just from the special treatment accorded to the UK and Denmark , but also from the fact that it was appreciated that not all Member States would meet the rather strict criteria for economic convergence laid down as the precondition for participation in the monetary union ; such States are referred to as ‘ Member States with a derogation ’ , and would , inter alia , be excluded from the decision-making process on certain matters . |
| 15 | The fact that it was shown that corporal punishment in a school tended to exacerbate rather than diminish misbehaviour was the principal reason for reform . |
| 16 | There were a few complaints about the rough was too rough and the coarse was too bad and whatnot , but I quite liked the fact that it was labelled because it meant that Rosemary could and could play the . |