Example sentences of "[coord] it [was/were] [verb] that the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The empire , at least in Africa , was thought likely to outlast the century , not least by socialist ministers ; and it was imagined that the Marshall Plan , paid off by the end of 1950 , might represent only a brief and passing reliance on the economy of the United States . |
| 2 | The refugee camp there was said to be acting as a " magnet " , encouraging more Haitians to put to sea , and it was confirmed that the camp would be phased out . |
| 3 | The craze hit Dallas in 1907 and it was observed that the first audiences were made up of women and children ; only later did men follow . |
| 4 | The estimate of 11 per cent of stock in use as second or holiday homes was felt to be an underestimate , and it was suspected that the real figure was nearer 26 per cent by 1980 . |
| 5 | A growing interest in developing co-operative training schemes was noted , fostered partly by the introduction of the pre-licentiate scheme which has encouraged libraries of all types to look at how to use resources to maximum advantage for programmes that may involve a small number , or possibly only one , staff member , and it was concluded that the potential for co-operative schemes to satisfy many of the objectives currently being met ( adequately or inadequately ) by external courses , has barely been harnessed . |
| 6 | However , the origin of this rule appears to have lain in the fact that , since the Crown was not liable in damages in the ordinary way , a requirement for an undertaking in damages would be inconsistent with the Crown 's immunity from liability ; and it was concluded that the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 had removed the justification for the rule . |
| 7 | This was considered to be a scenario ideally suited for the soft systems element of the FAOR approach , and it was hoped that the exercise would not only reveal where the problems lay , but also produce a requirements specification to show how technology could provide solutions . |
| 8 | This was in memory of a local boy who had died from multiple sclerosis and it was hoped that the prize would encourage the young men to take part . |
| 9 | ( But see Murphy v Culhane [ 1977 ] QB 94 for a case involving a criminal affray where the plaintiff got more than he bargained for and it was stated that the defence could apply . ) |
| 10 | Each rider had taken four of his five allotted rides , and it was announced that the top four scorers , Eastbourne 's Andrew Silver , Cradley 's Simon Cross , Alan Mogridge , of Arena Essex , and home rider Richard Green , would progress to the semi-finals . |
| 11 | A recent jumble sale made £200 for the Le Court Cheshire Home , Greatham , and it was announced that the outing this year will be to Sissinghurst , when husbands and friends will be invited to join in . |
| 12 | According to the Lanercost Chronicle , the Bishops of Winchester and Hereford were sent to Renilworth to ask the king to come to parliament , but on 12 January they returned to Westminster and it was announced that the king refused to do so . |
| 13 | At a meeting of the FIS consultative council on July 25-26 , however , the hardliners prevailed and it was announced that the FIS would not participate in the conference called by the transitional government . |
| 14 | ‘ Suddenly the programme came to a halt and it was announced that the King had died , ’ recalls John Rusby , who was a seven-year-old pupil at Cockton Hill Infant School , Bishop Auckland . |
| 15 | Independent tests carries out on the packs , including representative chemicals from acids , alkalis and solvents , proved the broad chemical compatibility of the sorbent material used and it was noted that the pack can be applied to a wide range of chemical leakages . |
| 16 | In Chapter 2 the present social security system was described and it was noted that the bulk of the work of social security is concerned with pensions and benefits for old people . |
| 17 | A discussion developed around the issue of training and it was felt that the foregoing discussion calls into question what you would want training for . |
| 18 | The trade unions have been largely silent and it was felt that the media had a lot to answer for in this department . |
| 19 | The church is using state money rather than their own money and it was felt that the church had become another agency of the state in this regard . |
| 20 | The reason was that we were touching three million unemployed at that particular point in time , and it was felt that the best way of making an impact was to highlight this in the way in which it was done . |
| 21 | The conferences were held actually , shall we say according to these guidelines that you have before you erm , and it was felt that the remit of these conferences has already and will in the future erm , increase democracy , accountability and the efficiency in decision making processes in our union . |
| 22 | Pork was the staple diet of most Europeans for many centuries and it was said that the peasants of Britain lived on bread , bacon and beer . |
| 23 | The operation of trolleys and pantographs together was not without its problems , and it was said that the great used on the collector plates could be found on the overhead line as far as Lytham ! |
| 24 | This was done not without trepidation , for the experience of preparing and presenting a proposal for external validation was new to the College and it was recognised that the development of the proposals , and subsequently of the course , in the very limited time scale necessitated by the speed of the Programme , would create major workload problems . |
| 25 | The buyer was going to re-sell the goods and it was recognised that the buyer 's sub-purchaser would test the weight and thus ascertain the precise sum to be paid to the seller . |
| 26 | Alun Evans , secretary of the Welsh football association who doubles up as chairman of the UAU committee , said : ‘ I was informed by the chairman of the UAU rugby committee that he was discussing the possible sponsorship of its championship and I received a copy of a proposal … it contained a number of features which were not acceptable to the union and it was therefore with great surprise that we learned a launch for the sponsorship had been called and it was decided that the union could not agree to this action . ’ |
| 27 | Daniel Alexander , the architect of Dartmoor prison , was appointed and it was decided that the new building should be constructed on the lines recommended by Howard : individual sleeping cells for prisoners , with day-rooms , courtyards and offices : a strict separation of different classes of prisoner and careful attention to problems of water supply , sewerage and ventilation . |
| 28 | At one cemetery all of the wood for the boards was alder , and it was argued that the boards were of multi-ply construction because of the various directions of grain represented . |
| 29 | Some of the Report 's data were criticized , and it was argued that the specific social effects of closures were not fully appreciated even if some of the wider social and economic repercussions had been noted . |
| 30 | The first stages of the French Revolution seemed to be more obviously under reasonable management and it was assumed that the French would set up some sort of parliamentary government under the control of gentlemen . |