Example sentences of "that it was [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 A remarkable feature of this decision of the House of Lords was that it was based on almost no judicial authority at all .
2 After 1934 this was to be combined with the anti-semitic obsession of both ultra-conservative reactionary fascism and racial nationalist traditions in the BUF , despite the fact that it was expressed in slightly less virulent form and appeared to have more social roots .
3 This in turn had important consequences in the current historical view of the period , in perpetuating the proposition laid down by Wheeler in his Verulamium Report , that the decline of urban life in Britain in the third century was so catastrophic , that it was followed by only a partial and short-lived revival under Constantius Chlorus , and then by a steady decline into the Dark Ages .
4 It revealed in September that it was looking for either an outright buyer or a substantial injection of capital for a minority stake in order to expand the publication .
5 She saw that it was covered with badly printed words , amongst which ‘ Wellwisher ’ stood out .
6 Their stand was all the more remarkable in that it was compiled in extremely murky light .
7 The Mystic Hussars , as it was called , proved to be so popular and successful that it was performed for over 40 years .
8 The radio was silent and I realized that it was coming from outside .
9 Now when we came across that it was dealt with very quickly and the , er sparklers were removed , but , er you know , the potential danger there particularly with young children running around , might want to play with a sparkler , with thirty or fifty thousand of the things in the same room .
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