Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] it was [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Priority was to be given to walking , not only because it was felt that this would give disproportionate environmental benefits and would aid access to public transport , but it would recognise the dominance of local movement by foot transport . |
| 2 | In keeping with this principle , systems and procedures were deliberately kept old-fashioned , especially since it was found that many guests favoured this . |
| 3 | The achievements of Raymond IV St Gilles in consolidating his authority within Toulouse were threatened by his departure in 1095 , especially since it was known that he had no intention of returning home . |
| 4 | His appointment is thought to herald a tougher security policy particularly so since it was announced that the back bench |
| 5 | Mortified , all the other political leaders voted to change the rules to exclude the far-right MEPs from their new posts , especially after it was discovered that Mr Le Pen 's man for Israel was likely to be from West Germany 's Republicans , led by an ex-SS officer , Franz Schonhuber . |
| 6 | The benefit conferred upon the taxpayers was one which logically followed only when it was determined that there were surplus places and the authorities of the college in their discretion agreed to admit the taxpayers ' children to these places . |
| 7 | Only when it was discovered that some men , formerly working on the surface , were working in canteens on the lowest male rate — higher than the female rate — did the union begin to campaign for equal pay for the women . |
| 8 | Just two miles from the German forward positions , the Mort Homme seemed hardly beyond the scope of a determined thrust — especially when it was recalled that the Fifth Army had advanced three times as far during the first four days alone on the Right Bank . |
| 9 | But when the word reached him , and especially when it was seen that Lord Grey himself was with the party , thereafter I can not be sure . |
| 10 | Similar proposals put forward at the end of World War I , to provide financial support via NHI to women after childbirth , were rejected largely because it was felt that they would offer an inducement to married women to work . |
| 11 | Thus when it was discovered that Jock Houston had a criminal record he was immediately moved from London to Manchester , and replaced in Shoreditch by Charles Wegg Prosser , a law student with an impeccable background . |
| 12 | The fatalism of life at work was accepted just as it was believed that they could not help themselves or , indeed , be helped . |
| 13 | Will he explain exactly when it was discovered that that material was in the bags sent to Wandsworth prison and when the search for it started ? |
| 14 | Ever since it was revealed that Grant has a boat I have been playing mind games to get him to invite us . |
| 15 | SHARES in security specialist Gardiner Group plunged to a new low yesterday after it was revealed that assets worth £3.5m have gone astray . |
| 16 | A FURIOUS storm was raging yesterday after it was revealed that the South 's semi-State mobile phone network is being used to peddle vice . |
| 17 | The strained relations between Russia and Japan deteriorated further when it was reported that the Sakhalin provincial authorities had decided to grant a contract to a Hong Kong company for a development project on Shikotan , one of the disputed islands . |
| 18 | This was partly because it was felt that a true understanding of the causes of crime was necessary before a clear corrective programme could be enunciated and that point , of course , was never quite reached — ‘ more research ’ was always needed . |
| 19 | And they got a huge boost hours later when it was revealed that the president had made a spectacular recovery in the polls . |
| 20 | Details of the summer bonanza meeting , on a par with most of the top venues in the United Kingdom , were outlined at a House of Sport Press Conference today where it was revealed that for the first time the meeting will be held on a Saturday night ( 6pm start ) . |
| 21 | Mr Michel Moussel , the pollution director at the ministry , said that there was no question of checking the allegations by digging in the dump at Montchanin in the Saone et Loire department even if it was proved that the dioxin was buried there . |
| 22 | The work progressed well until it was discovered that the original iron braces inserted into the stonework by Scott had rusted very badly and expanded several inches , forcing the stonework upwards . |
| 23 | For centuries before the arrival of Westerners it had been the symbol of the soul and of eternal life ; and for the Chinese , who traded with the southern islands long before the time of Christ , the bird became associated with the phoenix myth — which crept across the continents into the mind of medieval Europe , even before it was known that the world was round . |
| 24 | That fact carried much weight with the laymen even when it was emphasised that Black was not responsible . |
| 25 | Even when it was announced that she and Fabien had become formally engaged I would not give up my pursuit of her . |
| 26 | I was told on more than one occasion , that I should not really let outsiders see this sort of thing , even though it was agreed that what I had written was an accurate analysis of events . |
| 27 | In comparison the trade union movement did little until the subsidy ended on 30 April 1926 , even though it was expected that the Samuel Commission would be unable to offer a compromise which might be agreeable to both coal owners and unions . |
| 28 | Some schemes were , moreover , undertaken , even though it was known that they would make a loss , because of the statutory duty to supply . |
| 29 | Even though it was suggested that such crises may at some point lead to a collapse of the system , this is not inevitable nor even highly probable . |
| 30 | The evangelical Lord Ashley viewed the prospect of marrying into such a family with trepidation , particularly as it was rumoured that his bride-to-be was the illegitimate daughter of Palmerston and Lady Cowper . |