Example sentences of "in [noun prp] it was [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In Webb it was accepted that a man in similar circumstances who would be unavailable at th |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Early in February it was announced that , from May , oil deliveries to Aberystwyth will be by road . |
| 5 | In February it was announced that 147,950 Volga Germans had migrated from the Soviet Union to Germany in 1990 . |
| 6 | In December it was announced that 11 prisoners had been given the death sentence , commuted to life imprisonment . |
| 7 | In December it was confirmed that the assessment would be confined to paper and pencil tests taken by whole classes of children . |
| 8 | Also in December it was reported that secret trials of Beijing students who had participated in the protests had begun . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In July it was intended that they should be contained in regulations . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In November it was announced that exports of coffee — of which Angola was the fourth largest producer in the world before independence — were less than half those expected . |
| 18 | In November it was announced that the government had " retired " all non-Ugandan members of the NRA . |
| 19 | In November it was agreed that a Constituent Assembly should be created to draw up a schedule of meetings to be held on each of the four Windward Islands in 1991 and to decide on the form of the proposed referendum to be held in each state . |
| 20 | At the end of August an indefinite freeze was placed on the repatriation of foreign companies ' profits and dividends ; however , in September the rules were relaxed to allow transfer of normal profits after 60 days , and in November it was reported that the freeze was to be lifted under pressure from international corporations . |
| 21 | In November it was reported that the European Communities had agreed to proposals for Namibia to join the Lomé Convention , under which the country would secure an annual beef quota , at an estimated price 40 per cent higher than the world market , which would make Namibia the second largest beef exporter among the African , Caribbean and Pacific countries ( after Botswana ) . |
| 22 | The discovery of a species of Guarea ( Meliaceae ) with its own roots growing up into its hollow trunk , shortcircuiting the nutrient cycle , seemed excellent evidence in support of the hypothesis , though in Jamaica it was found that many such hollow trees were full of roots , but some of them were from trees that were not merely different individuals , but of different species ! |
| 23 | In October it was reported that Max Veillard , a French mercenary and adviser to Taki wanted for his part in the August coup attempt , had been shot dead by police . |
| 24 | In August it was revealed that Karen Smith , the Birmingham girl currently languishing in a Thailand prison after being convicted of drug smuggling , had been signed up by agents IMG . |
| 25 | In mid-1991 , investment analysts were recommending the company 's shares as a good buy and predicting pre-tax profits of about £40 million , but in August it was realised that the estimated profit was unattainable as a major contract was not going to materialise . |
| 26 | In August it was announced that all first-year Beijing University students would undergo a year of military and political training , while two other top universities were to devote the first five weeks of the new term to the study of documents issued by the central authorities on the " truth " about the " counter-revolutionary rebellion " . |
| 27 | In September it was revealed that the government was soliciting comments from the opposition parties on the election process . |
| 28 | In September it was reported that a trade co-operation agreement had been signed with Zimbabwe . |
| 29 | In September it was reported that South African lawyers would be brought to Swaziland to prosecute 15 people charged with forming a party to overthrow the government . |
| 30 | NRA forces were reported to have committed atrocities against the civilian population in Soroti district in the east , where the government had been fighting the Uganda People 's Army ( UPA ) , led by Peter Otai ; in September it was reported that 30 NRA personnel had been arrested for the killing of 60 civilians in the area . |