Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [pron] was [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Errors in calculation have been made at times , but discovered only when the water began to flow and it was found that the levada went uphill . ) |
| 2 | International forces landed in Beirut as the PLO started to leave and it was revealed that Prince Andrew , hailed as going to Cambridge University , had obtained one C and two Ds in his A-level results . |
| 3 | Only in the latter half of the last century did these ideas begin to emerge and it was recognized that embryos developed by epigenesis . |
| 4 | Then she had been forced to leave when it was discovered that her real father was a white man . |
| 5 | The nature of matters which would be characterised as collateral or preliminary was still difficult to determine and it was admitted that there could be errors of law within jurisdiction which , if they appeared on the face of the record , would be quashed . |
| 6 | Measures during September to enforce the trade embargo at sea included ( i ) US action on Sept. 4 to stop the Iraqi freighter Zanubia , carrying tea from Sri Lanka , which was re-routed without the cargo being impounded ; ( ii ) the searching of the tanker Faur in the Gulf of Oman on Sept. 14 ; ( iii ) warning shots fired on Sept. 27 by a US naval vessel prior to the boarding by US Marines of the Iraqi tanker Tadmur , which was allowed to proceed after it was verified that it carried no cargo ; and ( iv ) the first UK action , on Sept. 30 , when HMS Jupiter stopped an Indian merchant vessel , Akebar , off Qatar , on its return from delivering humanitarian food supplies , but allowed it to proceed after it was found to be carrying refugees and was declared free of contraband . |
| 7 | Soon it was time for him to return and it was arranged that Anne and Sarah who were both free would see him off at the station . |
| 8 | On two occasions , once in 1980 and once in 1982 , the DTI failed to act when it was told that Barlow Clowes was apparently dealing in investments without a licence . |