Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] that it [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Analyses of voting patterns revealed that it was primarily the racist demagoguery against foreign nationals living in West Germany that accounted for the party 's victories . |
| 2 | The 1377 poll-tax returns suggest that it was over three times the size of the largest provincial centres , Bristol and York , almost five times that of Coventry and six times that of Norwich ( 104 , p.1 ) . |
| 3 | The the reconciliations suggesting that it was n't a good stock take . |
| 4 | He showed that it was harmless to white blood cells , which are a principal defence against invading microbes , and he and Craddock administered enough to animals to discover that it was remarkably innocuous . |
| 5 | The historical sketch included in Macdonald 's 1904 survey of women in the printing trades states that it was indeed the pupils of Merchant Company Schools who formed the first recruits , and that these were " a better class of girl " , sometimes described as " stickit " ( would-be ) teachers . |
| 6 | Seeking to translate this question of morality to local issues , I asked the question , did the candidates agree that it was morally wrong and perhaps a misuse of public funds for local councillors to claim that there was no money available to install gas central heating in the homes of elderly disabled people when they always found money for hospitality allowances and trips abroad for themselves . |
| 7 | It was dominated by members of the former Soviet political system , and observers noted that it was out of step with political and economic realities after the demise of the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | Seven editors rejected it despite several reviewers indicating that it was well written . |
| 9 | Once again the movies learnt that it was not only the wealthy and respectable who liked to think that they were being given the best . |
| 10 | The official death toll from the assault was put at 83 , including nearly 70 civilians , but nationalists claimed that it was as high as 600 . |
| 11 | Cynics argued that it was not in the interests of the nuclear industry to create even more public concern . |
| 12 | In striving for more respectable customers the exhibitors learnt that it was not just the most affluent who liked to be treated with dignity and style . |
| 13 | Of course it would have been difficult for intellectuals to admit that it was precisely their own condemnation and neglect of films which had removed the one buffer that the film industry could have used to protect itself from the onslaught of ‘ the Meddlers and Busybodies ’ . |
| 14 | However , closer examination of how these deprivations were experienced within care-giving households suggests that it was often carers who bore the brunt of them , while trying to protect the living standards of the disabled or elderly person : |
| 15 | Critics argued that it was merely an attempt by Ford to purchase market share in the UK and that rationalisation would inevitably cause massive job losses . |
| 16 | Other members argued that it was not the EC 's fault if Britain paid more money than others under the terms of membership , and there were bitter arguments before a temporary ( three year ) settlement of the issue was reached , at the Luxembourg summit of April 1980 , when Britain got some repayments . |
| 17 | The move followed a Supreme Court ruling by five votes to four on May 23 in the case of Rust v. Sullivan , upholding the constitutionality of a 1988 ban on abortion counselling , even in cases where women asked for information or where their doctors believed that it was medically necessary . |
| 18 | Rigorous control procedures established that it was neither an artefact of nutritional compromise nor of preoperative bowel preparatory protocols . |
| 19 | One possibility was " to write off the Shah and proceed on the unpalatable consumption that Mosadeq is the indisputable ruler of Persia and the only bulwark against Communism " In the end , however , the prime minister advisers decided that it was almost prudent for Britain to follow the American line . |
| 20 | The members thought that it was technically feasible and , under the right conditions , could benefit the region . |
| 21 | Contrary to the obvious evidence you find , there is also enough clues to suggest that it was n't Jack the Ripper at all . |
| 22 | Monte Carlo simulations indicated that it was extremely unlikely that the peaks in the histogram of evoked responses had arisen by sampling artefact from a distribution that was smooth ( Fig.2 ) . |
| 23 | Some men insisted that it was not possible to make your first jump without voiding your bowels . |
| 24 | Over 50 people were killed in unrest across the country in the period Aug. 2-4 , although police said that it was not clear whether all the deaths were related to the strike . |
| 25 | Some argue that conflict is community based , others that it is class based ; some characterize the Anarchist Movement , which organised most working class protest in the area between 1870-1939 , as millenarian ; others contend that it was entirely rational . |
| 26 | Others realized that it was only a matter of patience to wait for the guaranteed escape which would be provided by the end of the war , and as the war dragged on more and more people became converted to this view . |
| 27 | The open-ended commitment to a vastly expensive discretionary scheme for criminal injuries compensation , sanctioned by statute in 1988 but not yet brought into force at the time of writing , was a particular Treasury bête noire , leading to pressure to cut back on other things if Ministers maintained that it was politically unacceptable to curtail the cost . |
| 28 | Equally , it would be no defence to the charge of insulting behaviour founded upon , for example , handing out leaflets seeking to persuade soldiers to desert that it was not the leafleter 's intention to insult , so long as the leaflet was in fact insulting , and the person distributing it was at least aware that it might be regarded as insulting by the person to whom it was addressed . |
| 29 | Not only is this virtually impossible ( and improbable ) in cases of injury — fatal or otherwise — to employees or the public , but in cases of financial irregularities it is always open for the suspect(s) to plead that it was not his intention to defraud shareholders , indeed even though he engaged in what appears to be financially irregular practices , his intention all along had been to improve shareholders ' financial interests , but unfortunately due to unforeseeable circumstances , matters went sour . |
| 30 | Announcing the government 's decision , Indian Ministers insisted that it was solely related to their wish to proceed without outside interference , and claimed that the project would go ahead , and would meet or exceed the standards set by the Bank . |