Example sentences of "[that] it was [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effectiveness of the Labour Spain Committee was impaired both by the fact that it was was associated with the movement in the constituency Labour parties and also because it was effectively advocating a a popular front against fascism , which the Labour Party continued to reject throughout the 1930s ; after the political disasters of 1931 it wanted no treating with its political enemies whether of the left or the right . |
| 2 | One thing that struck me about this contraceptive suggestion was that it was being made by people who totally disapproved of all experimentation on animals . |
| 3 | Using the Jodrell Bank Radio telescope in Cheshire , they had observed the super dense pulsating radio star ( pulsar ) PSR18219-10 for 18 months and deduced from variations in its radio signature that it was being orbited by a planet every six months at approximately the same distance as that from Venus to the Sun . |
| 4 | But the antagonism of his opponents was the more bitter for the way in which the left felt that it was being robbed of victory in the country by the propaganda stunt of the Zinoviev letter . |
| 5 | The Oval was a good cricket wicket despite the stories that it was being prepared for Laker and Lock . |
| 6 | All I will say here is that Bukharin was far too sanguine in his treatment of such a transition , even allowing for the fact that it was being treated at a purely abstract level . |
| 7 | Hunter-Blair said he warned MacQuillan that it was being whispered around Westminster that the unions had evolved a protective strategy and were looking for an opportunity to test it . |
| 8 | Having successfully demonstrated the safety of his method of treatment so that it was being adopted by inoculators throughout the country Sutton had already unwittingly performed his greatest service in the fight against smallpox . |
| 9 | The Democratic Party subsequently also complained that it was being denied access to the state-controlled media . |
| 10 | Wingti dismissed the statement as an empty threat , although there were reports that it was being investigated to determine whether or not it constituted sedition , as defined under section 44 of the country 's criminal code . |
| 11 | I it 's just that I remember on Monday morning hearing on the radio that it was being talked about that afternoon and of course immediately forgot to go and get a copy of the next day 's Guardian and read about it and all the other |
| 12 | The Illington-Lackford type of pottery occurs on 4 per cent of cemeteries and 15 per cent of settlements in East Anglia , strongly suggesting that it was being used for domestic , as well as funerary , use , and it is estimated that undecorated pottery made from the same fabrics outnumber the decorated Illington-Lackford pots by 15:1 . |
| 13 | An independent hint that it was being used even earlier than the Shang dynasty is the appearance of turquoise , the nearest sources of which were situated on the Iranian plateau , during the initial Erh-li-t'ou stage of the Bronze Age . ’ |
| 14 | We had complaints that it was being used without permission . |
| 15 | The Kerry has an unusually long history as a specialist dairy breed and it has been suggested that it was being bred for milk production in early Irish Celtic times when , it is thought , milk formed a major part of the people 's diet , either fresh or preserved in various ways . |
| 16 | Then in 1978 he saw a paper by three Soviet scientists which reported that there were anomalous amounts of helium-3 in some metals ; the Soviets suggested that it was being produced by fusion — fusion induced by cosmic rays . |
| 17 | The lingering doubts were probably always there , even if a war received the approval of the Church that it was being fought for a good cause . |
| 18 | The student left across Europe was outraged ; it was also confirmed in the notion that it was being taken seriously . |
| 19 | John could tell that it was being driven back up the hill towards Putna . |
| 20 | Pressures on the CNAA 's machinery were growing , and at the beginning of 1968 it complained that it was being overburdened with unsuitable applications . |