Example sentences of "[vb -s] that it [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their decision was prompted by fears that the protector might usurp the throne , although Mancini adds that it was supported by the queen 's family , who wanted to prevent power passing to Gloucester . |
| 2 | Their decision was prompted by fears that the protector might usurp the throne , although Mancini adds that it was supported by the queen 's family , who wanted to prevent power passing to Gloucester . |
| 3 | " Mr Herriot , " he said as the smoke rose around his ears , " do you ever feel when sammat happens that it was meant to happen and that it was for t'best ? " |
| 4 | There 's only one , and it says that it was built in ninety one , and it was n't , it was built in ninety three . |
| 5 | She says that it was spinning in the road . |
| 6 | Unless , therefore the guarantee was void as having been made for an illegal consideration or voidable on the ground of economic duress , the extrinsic evidence establishes that it was supported by valid consideration . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the document was still consulted in the early thirteenth century , which shows that it was regarded as an important statement of custom . |
| 8 | The use of English by the intellectual classes shows that it was becoming more socially acceptable , and the assertion that language was a distinguishing criterion of nationhood reveals a growing measure of national self-awareness . |
| 9 | When one takes a longer-run view of the monopoly situation , one sees that it was won by competition , and that it represents , as such ( and as far as it goes ) a step forward in the entrepreneurial process of the market . |
| 10 | Brian Rust 's book The Complete Entertainment Discography states that it was recorded in New York on 25 February 1925 , so this American Columbia electrical recording seems to be earlier , by one day . |
| 11 | quoted with approval a passage in Jervis on Coroners , 9th ed. ( 1957 ) , p. 179 , now to be found in the 10th ed. p. 197 , that any conflict between a verdict of lack of care and rule 33 of the Coroners Rules 1953 , now rule 42 of the Rules of 1984 , can be obviated by making sure that the verdict does not state that the death was aggravated by the lack of care of any particular person or persons but merely states that it was aggravated by lack of care . |
| 12 | ‘ It seems that it was taken from the car park next to her office but abandoned almost immediately . |
| 13 | A verse inscription on the skirt tells that it was dedicated to the goddess by Nikandre of Naxos , whose father , brother and husband are also named . |
| 14 | The purpose of the south mound , which excavation has shown not to be burial , is unclear , but dendrochronology , a method which dates timber according to the pattern of its tree-rings , indicates that it was built between c.960 and c.970 . |
| 15 | It probably also means that it was issued while Clovis was still a pagan . |
| 16 | But though this was so , Lord Coke reports that it was resolved by the whole Court of Common Pleas ‘ that payment of a lesser sum on the day in satisfaction of a greater can not be any satisfaction for the whole , because it appears to the judges that by no possibility a lesser sum can be satisfaction to the plaintiff for a greater sum : but the gift of a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , in satisfaction is good for it shall be intended that a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , might be more beneficial to the plaintiff than the money , in respect of some circumstance , or otherwise the plaintiff would not have accepted it in satisfaction . |
| 17 | The section provides that it was to continue and to prevent the owner from enforcing against the occupier a right to possession otherwise than by proceedings in court . |
| 18 | The FMLN denied government claims that it was refusing to withdraw its forces to appointed territories , that it had under-reported its arms and troop inventories , or that it was encouraging land occupations and was planning to establish agrarian settlements in a disputed border area with Honduras . |
| 19 | In those discussions BIIBA claims that it was agreed that its members would be allowed to renew their existing policies up to 31 October 1990 . |
| 20 | This brief review of the origins of the care programme approach suggests that it was generated by a move to establish systems which would help to prevent individual patients from ‘ falling through the net ’ of services , with the risk of manifest neglect , homelessness , inappropriate use of health and criminal justice services or even more tragic outcomes . |
| 21 | For example , a close reading of the entry ‘ Maître de musique ’ in Meude-Monpas 's dictionary suggests that it was written with the art of Pierre-Montan Berton ( 1727-80 ) in mind : the article concludes with a eulogy to him as ‘ a sovereign master of the orchestra ’ , i.e. at the Paris Opera from 1755 . |
| 22 | The inclusion of half-a-dozen peers who held no significant office suggests that it was beginning to revert to the form of the 1520s , when the Council had included both office-holders and men whose political support was valuable to the Crown . |
| 23 | Mancini suggests that it was to prevent Gloucester breaking sanctuary , and there are other indications that the duke was prepared to resort to force if negotiation failed . |
| 24 | Mancini suggests that it was to prevent Gloucester breaking sanctuary , and there are other indications that the duke was prepared to resort to force if negotiation failed . |