Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Concern was expressed whether or not it was intended that an undertaking not signed by a principal would be binding . |
| 2 | The hat and coat had been delivered the previous evening by an officer of the Kha-Khan 's guard , and since the news of Jehana 's betrothal had been spread through the court hours earlier it had to be assumed that Artai had heard of it , and that either he was inclined to forgive the offence which might be supposed to exist , or else he was pretending that he was aware of none . |
| 3 | Napoleon III was an innovator , not merely a man of his time but frequently one who was ahead of it , and so he was determined that his Court would deliberately eschew the rigid exclusivity which was the hallmark of the traditional European court structure . |
| 4 | In other words , the subjective elements were read referentially and so it was implied that the logic of narrative derived from a reality outside itself . |
| 5 | And so it was envisaged that the former coaling and oiling stations of Gibraltar , Malta , Port Said , Suez , Aden , Bombay , Colombo , Penang , Singapore and Hong Kong would become air staging posts as well in the post-imperial era . |
| 6 | The committee felt that basic communication and numeracy skills were most important for this purpose , and so it was suggested that all CEE certificates should record proficiency scores in English and mathematics . |
| 7 | Gerstner told the IBM Corp meeting in Tampa , Florida that he does not intend to ‘ lay out a grand scheme ’ for the company : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation , ’ Reuter reports him saying , ‘ that I am going to unveil some great plan , ’ Gerstner said ; ‘ You will see actions , and our actions will speak for themselves , ’ but added that some actions will not emerge until 1994 ; he described it as not entirely accurate to describe IBM 's strategy as ‘ splitting it up into a bunch of little pieces , ’ and added that the dividend may change based on IBM 's performance and outlook ; ‘ We ca n't expect quick fixes , ’ Gerstner told more than 3,000 shareholders at the meeting , ‘ But I do dare to ask your patience , ’ he said ; his top priority is to get IBM 's layoffs completed and ‘ rightsize ’ the company — ‘ I want to get it behind us so we can say to those remaining , ‘ You are are our team , ’ ’ he said ; he acknowledged several times that IBM 's bureaucracy had hampered the company , and elsewhere it was reported that he has ordered managers to dispense with the customary slides and flip charts when they address him — ‘ IBM has changed but some would say not fast enough , ’ but ‘ We can bring IBM back , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 8 | The transmission at sites outside the brain by acetylcholine or by noradrenaline was established unequivocally ( see Chapters 6 and 12 ) and later it was established that both these substances were present at many sites inside the brain and spinal cord . |
| 9 | Erm and also it was felt that the I I P was quite well structured , and that there was potentially less to learn from a service |
| 10 | And now he was insinuating that she would be extending her stay long enough for a tour of the whole country ! |
| 11 | Westcott once employed a thousand people , now there are only a hundred and fifty , and today it was announced that they too would lose their jobs unless the factory could find substantial new orders . |
| 12 | the different parts of the lump and today he was told that the second biopsy was clear it 's not malignant |
| 13 | I listened in even though I had heard most of it before and then we were told that anybody who had never been in a canoe before had to carry out capsize drills . |
| 14 | We did a lot of talking , of course , and then it was decided that we could possibly raise some money by going to the League of Friends , which we did , and they very generously provided well in fact the whole total is about five thousand pounds , of which three and a half thousands represents the computer , and we 're about to go live , as it were , in a week or two . |
| 15 | And there we were thinking that it passed the 2m mark at the end of last year : IMB Corp says that on the first anniversary of the launch of OS/2 2.0 , it has shipped more than 2m copies , has more than 80 agreements with hardware vendors to package OS/2 on their systems , and that there are now 1,200 applications specifically written for it . |
| 16 | It is these roles and how they were established that 1 shall describe in this chapter . |
| 17 | The mathematics for a spinning black hole are rather different from those of a stationary one , and initially it was thought that they would allow the possibility of a suitably durable craft surviving the voyage without necessarily being destroyed . |
| 18 | With the ageing of the original relay control system , the performance of the lifts was becoming progressively less satisfactory and therefore it was decided that the installation should undergo a major modernisation . |
| 19 | Mercifully , there was no proposal to attempt landing an aircraft by the same means , but rather it was envisaged that rough landing strips could be constructed adjacent to the launcher . |
| 20 | Sherriffe , a raw bustling wing , also showed that he knew his way to the line , but perhaps it was fitting that the elusive Purdy should be credited with his side 's final try . |
| 21 | They had removed him from the stifling atmosphere of the Court , but already he was finding that Civil Service protocol could be just as oppressive . |
| 22 | But generally it was felt that mothers could be relied upon to exert themselves on behalf of their children and that mismanagement resulted more from ignorance than from vice . |
| 23 | St Bartholomew 's church at Covenham was declining to the state of danger when a parish in California asked if they might have it and ship it stone by stone to the U.S.A. This caused much controversy for a while but finally it was decided that it should remain and be safely maintained on its original consecrated site . |
| 24 | But yesterday it was revealed that lawyers for the survivors , victims ' families , the airline , Boeing and three companies that made the engines have agreed payments will not be restricted . |
| 25 | Six months in Switzerland was the first suggestion but later it was decided that I could combine business and health by making a trip to New Zealand and learning the pelt fur business from the practical source in the fell-mongeries there . |
| 26 | But earlier you were saying that women who come to Oxford are tough cookies . |
| 27 | Some uncertainty was admitted in relation to those factors , and ways of studying the impact of such uncertainties were shown , but then it was assumed that the uncertainties themselves were reasonably structured such that rough probabilities of outcomes could be assigned . |
| 28 | But again I was told that he was away from the office , and a girl who said she was his secretary could give no clear indication of when he was expected back . |