Example sentences of "[noun sg] that it was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nannies were inevitable and , within their social set , also very much the norm ; but the choice of Barbara Barnes to look after William was an indication that it was going to be a relaxed regime : she had no formal training , never wore a uniform and liked children to call her by her Christian name . |
| 2 | Even the RP ‘ broad ’ [ a ] ( as in path , dance ) seems to have acquired its high evaluation only recently : Mugglestone ( 1989 ) cites evidence from the nineteenth century to the effect that it was stigmatized as a vulgarism by some commentators : it looks as though it may have been ‘ borrowed ’ from a low-status dialect ( such as ‘ Cockney ’ ) . |
| 3 | My feelings about the book were positive rather than the reverse , but I complained in my review that it was studded with references to fashionable French gurus that were purely cosmetic , adding nothing to the author 's argument . |
| 4 | Her partners agreed to this unorthodox therapy on condition that it was done in her spare time and she produced an audit after a year . |
| 5 | Many objections were voiced against the proposed deal which caused such a storm that it was dropped within days of the news breaking . |
| 6 | Hilary Frome had made no decisions yet about his future , beyond the one crucial decision that it was going to be a distinguished one . |
| 7 | They had their work cut out in simply trying to provide defences against the incursions of cattle raiders from the North Tyne valley , over Bewcastle Waste , or through that tract of the western fringe so unsure of its ownership that it was known as the Debatable Land ; and their own people were themselves frequently as unruly as their enemies . |
| 8 | Added to this was an acceptance of liberal Victorian culture to such a degree that it was assumed to be as eternal as the gospel itself . |
| 9 | ‘ I like a pint , and I cracked a joke that it was modelled on my belly . |
| 10 | The Georgian Communist Party ended its 28th congress on Dec. 8 with the announcement that it was seceding from the CPSU . |
| 11 | I should perhaps add for completeness sake that it was urged upon your Lordships that there was always a possibility of a leak to the prosecuting authorities of incriminating information disclosed by the defendants as a result of complying with the order and use being made , innocently , by the prosecution of such information , which , ex hypothesi , they had not themselves acquired . |
| 12 | It is no accident that it was recommended for use in the fifteenth-century Lay Folks Mass Book at the elevation of the Host . |
| 13 | I HAD a suspicion that it was going to be a nuclear week when I saw Richard Baker examining Raymond Briggs about the bomb on Omnibus . |
| 14 | The Czechoslovak government announced on April 4 that it had formally notified the CMEA Secretariat that it was withdrawing from three multilateral agreements designed to regulate the currency rate mechanism which were no longer operational [ see pp. 37326 ; 37334 ] . |
| 15 | Brewed by Courage , its name stems from the fact that it was once exported to Russia where it was so popular with the Czarist court that it was brewed under licence in Estonia until the 1917 revolution . |
| 16 | Moreover , a third party may be prohibited from using confidential information where he obtains the information with actual knowledge that it was received as a result of a breach of confidence . |
| 17 | In the Council Hall the new draft was subjected to such criticism that it was returned to the Commission to be revised into its earlier form . |
| 18 | And they were triumphant , as we were now , because it was a sign that it was going to be all right : a clear confirmation of life . |
| 19 | The argument that it was confined to physical obstruction and threats was rejected in Bastable v. Little . |
| 20 | At the opening of the Hinkley C Inquiry the CEGB felt so confident about the support of this government policy that it was raised like a standard at the front of its arguments . |
| 21 | Following news that it was working on an open systems ‘ business specification ’ for commercial users and organisations ( UX No 373 ) , the X/Open Group Co Ltd is at last preparing make good some of the promises it made last year about giving users a bigger say in its affairs . |
| 22 | Following news that it was working on a 64-bit Sparc RISC version of very long instruction word technology ( UX No 381 ) , Bell Atlantic Corp , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , is now claiming that there will be a multi-processing , superscalar Sparc Unix machine around by the end of the year that will incorporate the VLIW Trace scheduling compilers which originated from now defunct Multiflow Computers Inc . |
| 23 | Now it was that 249 Squadron received the news that it was to stay on the island . |
| 24 | ( 1 ) Whereas money paid under a mistake of fact is generally recoverable , as a general rule money is not recoverable on the ground that it was paid under a mistake of law . |
| 25 | The defendants objected to disclosure on ground that it was protected by legal professional privilege . |
| 26 | On behalf of the applicant , Mr. Fitzgerald submitted that a death due to ‘ natural causes ’ in the sense that it was caused by some naturally occurring disease , nevertheless becomes ‘ an unnatural death ’ within the meaning of section 8(1) ( a ) when it could and should have been prevented by the performance by some other person or authority of a duty owed by them to the deceased . |
| 27 | It was considered so influential by The Man that it was taken off air in '64 for fear of jaundicing the electorate . |
| 28 | She 'd started out meaning to apologise , but there was something so darned aggravating about this man that it was turning into an accusation instead . |
| 29 | As a result they push it beyond its design — a bit like trying to fly a plane at twice the speed and height that it was designed for . |
| 30 | The track goes on as a pleasant lane beyond Calf Holes , coming alongside a belt of trees on the left and arriving after a mile at the sixteenth-century Ling Gill Bridge , a modest structure with a tablet built into parapet giving the information that it was repaired in 1765 at the expense of the inhabitants of the West Riding . |