Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb past] [that] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | In January 1990 the State Committee for Statistics announced that it was developing a more realistic type of retail price index , based on what consumers actually paid rather than on list prices . |
| 2 | Despite this 30% replied that it would be difficult to get away — especially for those in urban employment . |
| 3 | Some people argued that it should be possible to run down the existing hospitals almost entirely , replacing them by short-stay psychiatric units at general hospitals and long-term care within the community . |
| 4 | On the other hand , the Cumberbatch survey showed that while 24% of over 1,000 respondents thought televising a bad idea in early November 1989 , those thinking this had fallen to 15% by March 1990 , and a rising number of people agreed that it was a good idea because ‘ the public have a right to know what goes on ’ — 87% in the first survey and 95% in the later one . |
| 5 | Instead , the value of Italy 's currency shot to the top of the parameters and there was a mass inflow of money as people realised that it was a more stable currency and there was less of a case for high interest rates , which were brought down still further . |
| 6 | Elsa Lawson , from Newton Aycliffe , who helped organise the event , said it was a mark of how well Mrs Harding knew the people involved that it was impossible to keep the presentation a secret . |
| 7 | Okapi was certainly easy to use and most people found that it needed minimal learning and relearning . |
| 8 | Some people declared that it was a triumph for the new laws , bless them . |
| 9 | You had this lump of rock that you dangled from a thread and people discovered that it always pointed in the same direction , so if you were on board , a ship for the first time people were able to travel in a ship without having to hug a coast all the way across or navigate to where they could see . |
| 10 | A group of MPs protested that it was ‘ totally unacceptable ’ for the Second World War to be omitted from the national curriculum for 7 to 14-year-olds . |
| 11 | And people thought that it all had to be changed . |
| 12 | A lot of people thought that it was n't commercial , but if you start pandering to that sort of stuff … ’ |
| 13 | A lot of people thought that it was n't commercial , but if you start pandering to that sort of stuff … ’ |
| 14 | BSL was discouraged because people felt that it would chain the deaf person to a concrete , visual mode of thinking . |
| 15 | In 1981 Bangladesh 's estimated population of 90,630,000 people meant that it was ranked as the eighth largest country in the world ( by population ) , and the fifth largest developing country . |
| 16 | This answer to the problem of overcrowding is not thought to need any further explanation because it is assumed to be the rational course of action : people saw that it was the only feasible thing to do , and acted accordingly . |
| 17 | Most people did that it was like er |
| 18 | People complained that it crumbled badly and could n't be cut into thin slices , so Woman 's Own recommended that the bread knife should be dipped in boiling water in between cutting each slice . |
| 19 | He had insisted on living in Auckland Castle though some people said that it was absurd for the Bishop of Durham to be saddled with such a pile . |
| 20 | Before Laventhol & Horwath , people said that it would never happen ; now they know that it can . |
| 21 | People said that it was when his father died , rather than when his long suffering wife did , that George 's drink problem got out of control . |
| 22 | The environmental pressure group Glasgow For People said that it had called on MPs to urge Strathclyde to cancel its plans for Glasgow road projects costing more than £200 million . |
| 23 | So in the early 1920s some people conjectured that it may be possible that helium — element number two in the periodic table of the elements — could be built from two hydrogen atoms . |
| 24 | 45% thought that it was wrong to withdraw food and medical treatment from severely handicapped babies rejected by their parents . |