Example sentences of "it was [verb] that we " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond Postojna the roads became increasingly worse , twisting and turning as we went through at Janene on the Croatian border where it was explained that we would have to pay a reduced fee ( as we were carrying humanitarian goods ) of 13DM in order to acquire the appropriate papers to allow us to enter Croatia . |
| 2 | In 1964 , it was argued that we could not provide an adequate deterrent without five boats , but we took the decision to proceed with only four and we carried it through . |
| 3 | ‘ It was understood that we would go when his father died and the will was settled . |
| 4 | The day before the Sale it was calculated that we had 640 of our ‘ regulation ’ boxes ( given to us by the china shops ) filled with about 26,000 books – all sorted and priced by then . |
| 5 | Ultimately it was decided that we would try Kungsleden , the long-distance footpath through Arctic Sweden . |
| 6 | Joy and Alan came back , and it was decided that we would wait until dark and then bring him down the fire escape ; luckily there was one right next to his room . |
| 7 | Then it was decided that we needed two terminals . |
| 8 | At the beginning of this year , it was decided that we should run a marine campaign , launch date some time in July . |
| 9 | At this meeting it was decided by the Committee to approve the Constitution of the European Federation of Funeral Services on behalf of the N.A.F.D. As we hold the Presidency of E.F.E.S. it was decided that we would not vote in favour of any one particular city for the location of the registered office for E.F.F.S. , but would endorse the decision of the majority over this matter . |
| 10 | We did a lot of talking , of course , and then it was decided that we could possibly raise some money by going to the League of Friends , which we did , and they very generously provided well in fact the whole total is about five thousand pounds , of which three and a half thousands represents the computer , and we 're about to go live , as it were , in a week or two . |
| 11 | It was decided that we should look at these in more depth ’ . |
| 12 | They were due to give a concert at the Odeon , Weston-super-Mare and it was planned that we would do our piece with the Stones on the roof . |
| 13 | And we 're not doing yet the things that it was planned that we 'd be doing of in a year . |
| 14 | It was said that we were cursed . |
| 15 | Then it was said that we needed a dedicated rail route , which would pass through Kent , and which would obviously affect the prospects of some Conservative Members in marginal constituencies . |
| 16 | We 've got two officer 's for example who are leading on working the young people in the town , Youth Development Officer 's er we , the Local Government Unit has a policy team initiated work on the youth policy , and this arose out of erm a member seminar 's , September eighty nine , where er the members felt that really the Council was n't doing enough for young people , that we as a Council , not not to think about young in the way we deliver our services and it was felt that we needed to go out and talked to young people , which we did in the winter of that year , erm and find out what they wanted from us , and the res as a result of that , that , that policy , and that consultation exercise has now developed into a front line service where we have two people full time working with young people in the town and that 's on various things , graffiti project , the underpasses in the town we , which have got graffiti type I mean I know there not everybody 's cup of tea , but I mean they way . |
| 17 | It was felt that we should look at the practicalities of splitting of the membership into an ‘ active ’ and ‘ passive ’ list ; the idea of introducing a membership fee of some kind was rejected . |
| 18 | With the advent of 1992 it was felt that we have a lot of ‘ catching up ’ to do with other European countries . |
| 19 | We had wanted two contrasting areas ( more than two would have been preferable of course in terms of the extent to which one could generalise from our findings but the projects would become expensive and it was acknowledged that we could not include more than two ) , and Ipswich and Newham were felt to fill this requirement . |
| 20 | One evening , David , Barry , Christina and John Hutchinson were all sitting in my front room and talking about what we could actually do to earn some money It was suggested that we might go down to one of the local pubs which held regular jazz nights , to see if they had an evening free and perhaps we could run a folk club just one evening a week and maybe charge people to come in and make a few pennies for ourselves . |
| 21 | When we got there , we were introduced to several divers who swapped telephone numbers with us and it was suggested that we have a dive with an instructor to re-orient us to diving in this country . |
| 22 | It was once believed to be a very young star , still condensing ; then it was suggested that we might be dealing with a Black Hole ; now it seems more likely that the eclipsing component is a hot bluish star surrounded by a cloud of opaque material . |
| 23 | Just on that last point , it was suggested that we ought to be writing now , to these commissioners , saying that we as a parish council wanted to make comments to them when they were er in Nottinghamshire . |
| 24 | There will be a Raffle as on previous such occasions and to raise funds for this it was suggested that we hold a ‘ Bring and Buy ’ home produce and cake sale at the October Q.T. Day . |
| 25 | It was agreed that we should be married as soon as Leslie had completed his parachute training , which was the reason for his being sent home . |
| 26 | At the same time it was agreed that we should call the divinity school by the name ‘ College of Holy Cross ’ , which would give it added dignity and incentive . |
| 27 | In conclusion , it was agreed that we ought not view social security legislation in isolation , but should consider the effects on the unemployed of this legislation and other legislation introduced during the eleven years of Tory government , such as housing , health , education . |
| 28 | Given the time and resources available to the project it was agreed that we should concentrate on the topics shown in Figure 1 . |
| 29 | Instead , it was agreed that we would begin by harmonising coding standards for personnel so that data on the major fields of interest would be coded in the same way by all personnel systems across the company . |
| 30 | It was agreed that we should be supplied with samples of the cards and holders for consideration before they are introduced . |