Example sentences of "in [noun] it [was/were] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN 1916 when evening classes began in Russian it was intended that they should serve the commercial interests of the people of Nottingham . |
| 2 | In March it was learned that there is in existence a French organisation which has been working towards the provision of a water supply to the village of Atea and the construction of a better quality road to the village than had previously existed . |
| 3 | In Webb it was accepted that a man in similar circumstances who would be unavailable at th |
| 4 | In addition it was assumed that if there were insufficient jobs in Britain , other economies , such as those of America and Australia , were waiting for labour for their own development . |
| 5 | In addition it was assumed that the Soviets could reinforce their front line much more rapidly than their opponents . |
| 6 | In addition it was felt that if regional studios were established as well as transmitters , these would be able to originate their own material for local transmission , which would help redress any cultural imbalance in programming . |
| 7 | In addition it was found that as the number of choices which could be made , when choosing the cards , increased by a factor of 2 ( another bit of information was required ) , the time required for the brain to make this choice increased at a constant rate . |
| 8 | In addition it was established that women tended to receive less support services than male carers ( EOC , 1982 ) . |
| 9 | In addition it was proposed that payment to GPs should be based far more on the size of the doctor 's patient list , as this was seen as a good proxy for assessing how hard doctors work . |
| 10 | In addition it was suggested that only about a quarter of the earlier sample of women had used birth control methods other than withdrawal compared with 57 per cent of the latter group . |
| 11 | In Roffey it was held that a procession was an ‘ assembly ’ for the purposes of the Air Navigation Order 1954 , and the commentary on that case points out that a procession was regarded as an assembly for the purposes of the old offence of unlawful assembly . |
| 12 | ( After discussion with staff in schools it was agreed that the checklist was an inappropriate means of analysis for a satirical fable such as Animal Farm . ) |
| 13 | Although theoretically any potency can be used , in practice it was found that some potencies were more effective than others . |
| 14 | In Firth it was held that s.2(1) ( c ) covered omissions as well as commissions , a failure to give information that the accused 's patients were private ones . |
| 15 | Early in February it was announced that , from May , oil deliveries to Aberystwyth will be by road . |
| 16 | In February it was announced that 147,950 Volga Germans had migrated from the Soviet Union to Germany in 1990 . |
| 17 | In Casati it was held that the scope of that restriction might vary in time and depended on an assessment of the requirements of the Common Market and on an appraisal of both the advantages and risks which liberalization might entail . |
| 18 | In December it was announced that 11 prisoners had been given the death sentence , commuted to life imprisonment . |
| 19 | In December it was confirmed that the assessment would be confined to paper and pencil tests taken by whole classes of children . |
| 20 | Also in December it was reported that secret trials of Beijing students who had participated in the protests had begun . |
| 21 | In May it was announced that the fleet name ‘ London TransporT ’ would be used and it began to appear on the waist panels of cars as repainted . |
| 22 | In May it was reported that Jacinto Granda de Laserna , a section head in the PCC 's department of revolutionary orientation and former editor of the Young Communist journal Juventud Rebelde , had become editor of the party daily , Granma . |
| 23 | Parliament granted a tax of a sixteenth , and in return it was promised that the perambulations of Edward I should be confirmed , and that new perambulations should be made before Christmas in the forests where they had not been made in the previous reign . |
| 24 | In July it was intended that they should be contained in regulations . |
| 25 | Later in July it was reported that factories in some regions , facing the unaccustomed pressure to make a profit , were refusing to lend out their workers to provide the usual help in bringing in the potato and vegetable harvests . |
| 26 | In July it was disclosed that the Soviet Union was owed the equivalent of 87,500 million ( 25 per cent in convertible currencies ) , but much of this was believed to be for arms sales to poorer countries who were unable to repay it . |
| 27 | In Wheeler it was held that while section 71 of the Race Relations Act 1976 allowed the council to consider the best interests of race relations when exercising its discretion in the management of a recreation ground , it could not , in the absence of any infringement of the law or improper conduct penalise a rugby club for failure to support the council 's policy of condemning a tour of South Africa . |
| 28 | It seems that in compensation it was agreed that Italy should build a hospital in Ethiopa . |
| 29 | In Ceylon it was discovered that mountain areas could produce fresh vegetables which could be conveyed from local stations to Colombo to provision passing ocean liners . |
| 30 | It might have been assumed that the corollary was that the prosecution did not have to prove that the accused assumed the rights of the owner contrary to the owner 's wishes but in Morris it was held that a person appropriated only if he adversely interfered with or usurped the rights of the owner . |