Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The public were promised that it would be introduced after the war ( it never was ) and if successful would be followed by tax changes and other ideas such as tax credits to regulate demand . |
| 2 | ‘ The flats were flooded two and a half years ago and we were promised that it would never happen again . ’ |
| 3 | At least , most of the Board were and the rest of us were persuaded that it would be no bad thing , without , I confess , being precisely clear what we meant by that blessed word . |
| 4 | Except , as we have seen , for confident bourgeois like James Mill and Edward Miall , both those who campaigned for universal suffrage , like the Chartists in the 1830s and '40s , and those who dreaded and opposed it were agreed that it would lead to the political domination of the working class . |
| 5 | ‘ We were told that it was going to be arranged for Barry to sing ‘ The White Cliffs of Dover ’ with Mrs Thatcher at the end of the show . |
| 6 | Sermons and prayers stressed the patience , humility and virtue of the English king : when people were exhorted to pray for the great expedition which Edward , together with the Black Prince and the duke of Lancaster , led to France in 1355 , they were told that it was setting out ‘ to procure peace ’ . |
| 7 | Although that is not this case , I have done so both because we were told that it would be helpful to all those concerned with the treatment of minors and also perhaps the minors themselves and because it seems to be a logical base from which to proceed to consider the powers of the court and how they should be exercised . |
| 8 | When we asked Russian officials whether the beef was having any impact on meat prices in Russia , we were told that it was not . |
| 9 | When that matter was put to the Home Office and the Department of the Environment , we were told that it was for the local authority to sort out the matter with the local police force . |
| 10 | That is because they were told that it would not happen . |
| 11 | Well we did take some er legal advice on it and we were told that it was not illegal , erm I mean we think it 's highly immoral erm , but we were told it was not illegal , because they did not actually use the er the redundancy money did not come out of the fund , only this enhanced pension etcetera which was using up the , the surplus and we were told |
| 12 | The building has been the subject of controversy ever since locals were told that it was to be turned into a clinic for twenty six convicted sex offenders . |
| 13 | She says that they were told that it was a bomb scare . |
| 14 | Although the constitution was passed unanimously , fears were raised that it would infringe the rights of the Russian minority in Turkmenistan . |
| 15 | ‘ The fair is the highlight of our week long festival and we were determined that it should go ahead , ’ he said . |
| 16 | The police were advised that it was a potentially fatal weapon , but when the case was brought before Mr Bros at Clerkenwell , he ruled that although the pistol was a ‘ weapon ’ it was not a ‘ firearm ’ , and so did not fall within the prohibitions of the Act . |
| 17 | The programme received financial assistance from UNICEF and it was intended that it should perform three basic tasks : |
| 18 | Founded by William of Waynflete in 1484 it was intended that it should act as a feeder to Magdalen College itself , which he also founded . |
| 19 | It is quite clear against the background that I have described that it was intended that it should be an exceptional power and that it should be used only when there are no other ways in which the individual applicant may consider the case himself through the planning process . |
| 20 | From these figures , it was calculated that it would take some 100 years for the cut and cut-and-burnt sites to attain biomass levels of the original forest , while for the bulldozed forests , it is estimated that 1000 years would be needed . |
| 21 | Nothing was new in this White Paper : it was emphasized that it provided an outline of a long-term strategy rather than a programme of rapid action , so it was generally regarded as a due statement of concern and good intentions , and little more . |
| 22 | Men went down the main shaft and tried to clear it by shovelling the slurry into tubs which were then hauled to the surface but this was soon abandoned as it was realised that it would take weeks or months to clear a way through to the trapped men . |
| 23 | On being asked what constituted such vulgarity , it was explained that it was because it had ‘ neither vest nor pants to cover his lower limbs ! ’ |
| 24 | It was explained that it was hoped that they would ‘ befriend ’ a life preparation student for craft sessions , working alongside each other on a variety of projects . |
| 25 | The skin ended up in the Natural History Museum in Copenhagen and it was only when the corpse was examined that it was discovered that sulukongur was in fact a female ! |
| 26 | It was claimed that it made rural communities vulnerable to guerrilla reprisals . |
| 27 | In the first annual report of the medical superintendent it was reported that it had not been necessary to use the padded cell on any occasion , despite the fact that many patients had been admitted handcuffed , leg iron locked or bound with cords and chains . |
| 28 | Full details were not available but it was reported that it would be a balanced budget despite a doubling of general government expenditure to R 24,000,000 million ( about US$16,500 million at the floating rate ) . |
| 29 | Until quite recently it was considered that it was the crust that attained equilibrium with respect to the mantle , but it is now known that isostatic adjustments also involve the rigid mantle forming the lower part of the lithosphere . |
| 30 | Because of the heavy clay content of the material , it was considered that it could not be compacted enough for the development . |