Example sentences of "was [verb] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Prince Charles is starting to say things about that and whether that was misquoted in the press or whether he actually said it , the point was it was leaked that he had said it to a group of MP 's . |
| 2 | I was so caught up in what I was seeing that it was only when I reached the top of the close where they lived that I started to think again about what I was doing there , and it was then that my feelings of fear started . |
| 3 | IN 1916 when evening classes began in Russian it was intended that they should serve the commercial interests of the people of Nottingham . |
| 4 | In July it was intended that they should be contained in regulations . |
| 5 | It was intended that there should be assessment of the mother , but by August 1991 she had missed three assessment appointments . |
| 6 | The programme received financial assistance from UNICEF and it was intended that it should perform three basic tasks : |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was intended that he should manage his father 's sheep ranches in Australia , but in 1886 he was articled to Charles E. Davis [ q.v. ] , city architect of Bath , where he remained until 1889 . |
| 10 | It was intended that he should enter the medical profession but for financial reasons this became impossible , and when only seventeen he joined the office of the district superintendent of the line of the London and North Western Railway at Euston . |
| 11 | Of such undertakings all that can be predicated is that some breaches will and others will not , give rise to an event which will deprive the party not in default of substantially the whole benefit which it was intended that he should obtain from the contract ; and the legal consequences of a breach of such an undertaking , unless provided for expressly in the contract , depend upon the nature of the event to which the breach gives rise and do not follow automatically from a prior classification of the undertaking as a " condition " or a " warranty " . |
| 12 | How could this right of election be anything other than a fiction if the breach of the term in all circumstances deprives the innocent party of substantially the whole benefit which it was intended that he should receive ? |
| 13 | I was irritated that he could imagine I would want to go back to him . |
| 14 | I was roused from my room with a call from the Cambridge police , Stewart had been arrested for disorderly conduct and was demanding that his skipper should come down and bail him out . |
| 15 | Is not the hypocrisy and confusion in the Opposition ranks shown by the fact that , when that judgment was announced , the legal affairs spokesman for the Opposition was immediately in the media demanding my right hon. Friend 's resignation , while the shadow Home Secretary was demanding that he remain . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Shortly after the opening of the Legislative Assembly in February 1990 it was calculated that there was a backlog of some 300 parliamentary bills awaiting debate . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The aim was to emphasise that everybody , including the prisoner , could , if they chose , play a useful role in society . |
| 20 | Okay so we can implement it like that in hardware but the major benefit and this was done sort of like sixties sort of sixty nine seventy was to realize that you could put it into a little package like that which of course is a random access memory . |
| 21 | Well , Peter 's getting close to retirement , and he was hinting that he 'd like to sell out . |
| 22 | The announcement came as State President F. W. de Klerk was hinting that he was prepared to reintroduce a state of emergency , lifted in part in June 1990 [ see p. 37522 ] . |
| 23 | Both speakers gave papers on the employment of women in printing , and such local interest was aroused that they were asked to repeat their lectures in Edinburgh a few days later . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It was to tell the head of state to whom he was accredited that he ought to leave the country . |
| 26 | We had to repossess what fate had handed us on a plate , and the only way to do this was to claim that we had willed it all along . |
| 27 | When confronted with Plymouth Brethren or other sects at the door , my major defence ploy was to claim that I lived in a ‘ Quaker house ’ . |
| 28 | Oddly , as foreign secretary , Major asked his old school , Rutlish Grammar , to deposit his records in Surrey county archives and keep them secret ; later , as Prime Minister , he was to claim that he could not remember how many O levels he had . |
| 29 | Later Marie Wassilieff too was to claim that she had persuaded Modigliani to take up painting again . |
| 30 | If not , it is their loss , for it is the catholicity of the education to which I was exposed that I have come most to value . |