Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] that it was " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The manufacturers owed a duty to anyone who should handle the machine to take reasonable steps to see that it was safe . |
| 2 | He showed that it was harmless to white blood cells , which are a principal defence against invading microbes , and he and Craddock administered enough to animals to discover that it was remarkably innocuous . |
| 3 | The two bronze Moors on the clock-tower outside hammered on the bells to announce that it was midday . |
| 4 | The Symposium was at pains to stress that it was the black majority who were to be the prime targets of any campaign . |
| 5 | Though the archival evidence shows that if the Masai did not change it was not for want of trying on the part of the administration , it was convenient in some quarters to suppose that it was . |
| 6 | Of course it would have been difficult for intellectuals to admit that it was precisely their own condemnation and neglect of films which had removed the one buffer that the film industry could have used to protect itself from the onslaught of ‘ the Meddlers and Busybodies ’ . |
| 7 | And although Whigs under Anne liked to claim that James had been deposed for breaking his original contract with the people , they found it a credible way of embarrassing their political opponents to argue that it was the Tories who had been responsible for James 's downfall . |
| 8 | May 9 , 1972 The House of Lords decision in Launchbury v. Morgans led Mr Ali 's advisers to believe that it was impossible to continue the action . |
| 9 | Early in the war a postcard was issued at Crewe Station showing women railway workers holding out their hands to indicate that it was clean work . |
| 10 | Contrary to the obvious evidence you find , there is also enough clues to suggest that it was n't Jack the Ripper at all . |
| 11 | One case in the mid-1950s prompted a student of British nationalized industries to comment that it was a ‘ particularly flagrant example of ministerial intervention because the Minister overrode the statutory duty of the Transport Commission to pay their way … ’ |
| 12 | Equally , it would be no defence to the charge of insulting behaviour founded upon , for example , handing out leaflets seeking to persuade soldiers to desert that it was not the leafleter 's intention to insult , so long as the leaflet was in fact insulting , and the person distributing it was at least aware that it might be regarded as insulting by the person to whom it was addressed . |
| 13 | The fighting was instigated by Hezbollah , which prompted some commentators to suggest that it was part of an Iranian effort to undermine the Saudi-instigated Taif peace process . |
| 14 | Not only is this virtually impossible ( and improbable ) in cases of injury — fatal or otherwise — to employees or the public , but in cases of financial irregularities it is always open for the suspect(s) to plead that it was not his intention to defraud shareholders , indeed even though he engaged in what appears to be financially irregular practices , his intention all along had been to improve shareholders ' financial interests , but unfortunately due to unforeseeable circumstances , matters went sour . |
| 15 | EVOLVING humanoids grew more intelligent at about the time they began using tools to hunt ; this finding has encouraged anthropologists to speculate that it was tool use that made intelligence particularly adaptive . |