Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though , just for the record , I would n't have tried to do anything of the sort if it were n't patently clear that you do n't feel anything lasting for your fiancé . ’ |
| 2 | It was evidently widely felt that its representatives were capable of more or less any form of major misdemeanour . |
| 3 | In the same case , at 758C , Lord Salmon stated that it was generally well established that professionals owed their clients a duty to exercise reasonable skill and care . |
| 4 | It was n't straight acting that had captured her imagination , but rather the stage itself . |
| 5 | Charlie was older , of course , but it was n't only age that had changed him . |
| 6 | The curious thing about Dr Dunstaple 's death was that although the harrowing circumstances which had attended it were well known throughout the camp , it was not generally considered that , by dying , the Doctor had lost his argument with McNab . |
| 7 | It was not yet clear that in solving practical problems as in solving those in pure science , one thing leads to another . |
| 8 | Secondly , it was not infrequently commented that exceptional circumstances should be taken into account before a visit was ordered ( for example , checking with the accountant for the reasons for the delay ) . |
| 9 | And following Bull 's press conference last week to announce its 1992 results , it was not altogether clear that its new chief executive Bernard Pache will be the man to lead the company out of the crisis . |
| 10 | She felt it was not just chance that they met so often near her home , yet he only talked about what was happening in other parts of the world , never of people they knew or of his feelings towards her . |
| 11 | It was not only fear that drove her forward . |
| 12 | It was also frequently noted that staff were encouraged to request attendance at external courses , but likely to be nominated for attendance at internal courses ( normally developed in the frame-work of their perceived training needs ) . |
| 13 | It was also generally believed that , while good works could never of themselves merit salvation , the leading of a saintly life was both a consequence and a sign of one 's elect status . |
| 14 | In Ireland it was also generally known that the rays of the sun at winter solstice sunrise illuminated the chamber of the ancient mound at Newgrange . |
| 15 | It was also generally agreed that the restrictions obscured the extent of the bombing campaign and the destruction in Iraq in the first weeks of the war . |
| 16 | It was also widely believed that he would have become the laibon after his father 's death . |
| 17 | It was also well known that Mrs Thatcher preferred to have people buying their own private pension scheme ; here was an area in which the state might be rolled back . |
| 18 | It was also tentatively suggested that services of blessing for lesbian and gay couples could be helpful . |
| 19 | It was also sometimes said that he was ‘ mediocre ’ and ‘ uninspired ’ . |
| 20 | I thought it was just like Commentating that it had n't |
| 21 | It was later generally accepted that he was suffering from multiple neurofibromatosis ( von Recklinghausen 's disease ) , a very rare and incurable disease characterized by the tendency to form neurofibromas ( tumours of the nerve and fibrous tissue ) . |
| 22 | It was reportedly also proposed that a legislature would be created with upper and lower houses , the upper house with a 50:50 ratio between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots and the lower with a 70:30 ratio . |
| 23 | I did a diploma in nursing to add to my basic nursing qualification and it was pretty much expected that I 'd be moving up into line management ( overseeing several wards ) . |
| 24 | It was immediately much regretted that the death penalty could not be applied to burglars and footpads , and the prison system was the object of particularly fierce criticism . |
| 25 | In fact , it was sometimes so crowded that customers could not get near ! |
| 26 | When , under the hail of bombs in the last phase of the war , some Nazi cranks and fanatics sent letters to the Propaganda Ministry , extraordinary even for the Third Reich in the depths of inhumanity they plumbed , suggesting the shooting or burning of Jews in retaliation for allied air raids , it was occasionally specifically requested that the ‘ suggestions ’ be sent on to Hitler . |
| 27 | It was then widely believed that the universe was static , yet if space , and particularly time , were curved back on themselves , how could the universe continue forever in more or less the same state as it is at the present time ? |
| 28 | It was recently experimentally shown that curvature is possible without AnTm tracts , provided that a certain combination of dinucleotide steps occur ( 1–4 ) . |
| 29 | It was so skilfully effected that Giles and Cavell were metres away before Maria realised what was happening . |
| 30 | It was so skilfully managed that almost before Lindsey knew what was happening the pressure of his hand was drawing her away . |