Example sentences of "in [noun sg] it was [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 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 .
3 In addition it was assumed that the Soviets could reinforce their front line much more rapidly than their opponents .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 In addition it was established that women tended to receive less support services than male carers ( EOC , 1982 ) .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Although theoretically any potency can be used , in practice it was found that some potencies were more effective than others .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 It seems that in compensation it was agreed that Italy should build a hospital in Ethiopa .
14 Her husband began to complain of headaches and lethargy and after a period of investigation in hospital it was discovered that he had a malignant cerebral tumour .
15 In discussion it was suggested that one could consider the clash of values at the local level in terms of game theory , where ‘ traditionalists ’ were playing the game and were winning whereas ‘ progressivists ’ were not in the game but wanted to change the rules so that they could compete .
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