Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] [verb] that [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through conversation , it was soon realised that although consultants welcomed the concept of the educational supervisor theoretically , they did not all wish to be burdened with this increased responsibility . |
| 2 | Since the earliest days of stepping motor development a large number of designs have appeared , but it was soon realised that if the motor is to produce a significant torque from a reasonable volume then both the stationary and rotating components must have large numbers of iron teeth , which must be able to carry a substantial magnetic flux . |
| 3 | It was firmly stated that where review was based upon breach of natural justice , the court should only be concerned with the manner in which the decision was reached and not with the correctness of the decision itself . |
| 4 | It was generally believed that if services were made available free to all , then they would be used by everyone who needed them . |
| 5 | It was also assumed that if people had more of their gross income to spend as they chose then they would purchase goods and services that they wanted rather than the state spending money on goods and services for which there may be little or no demand . |
| 6 | It was also said that if the bow should move of its own accord after it had been draped it was a bad omen . |
| 7 | Linked with this latter point , it was also reported that when it came to an evaluation of training courses " higher education providers revealed that their concern was very largely with improving the quality of their courses rather than assessing their effectiveness upon participants ' management practice in school " ( Wallace and Hall 1989:172 ) . |
| 8 | It was also found that while the aircraft was in service a modification to the door mechanism had been carried out in a way which did not comply with the appropriate service bulletin . |
| 9 | Not only throughout Britain , but in many parts of Europe and in the New World , it was widely accepted that if a person succeeded in erecting a dwelling on common or waste land between sunset and sunrise and lighting a fire in it he could not lawfully be dispossessed . |
| 10 | It was widely believed that if the individual was allowed to follow his own interests , within the law of the land , then general good would result . |
| 11 | It was widely rumoured that when the party leader , Klement Gottwald , died , in March 1953 , it was from grief at the death of Stalin a few weeks earlier . |
| 12 | It was widely rumoured that if the Sagawa Kyubin affair was to be fully revealed its scope would surpass not only the Kyowa scandal , but also the Recruit affair . |
| 13 | At the time it was widely forecast that if the Lords ' experiment was a success the Commons would be forced to follow suit . |
| 14 | It was then believed that if a cat crossed your path and did you no harm , you had been incredibly lucky . |
| 15 | It was then contended that because the name , the signature as the judge had held it to be , had been written at the top of the document before the dispositive contents had been written , it could not have been intended ‘ to give effect to ’ the dispositive contents . |
| 16 | Over the past couple of years , Waverley Borough Council have been considering a number of plans to redevelop the area and it was recently decided that because of the state of the building it should be demolished . |
| 17 | It was always thought that if an investor ( or purchaser ) completed an agreement knowing that some of the warranties were untrue and that fact had not been disclosed , then he would not be prevented from bringing an action for breach of warranty , though the equitable remedy of rescission for misrepresentation would not be available as the investor could not satisfy the requirement to come to equity with clean hands . |
| 18 | It was further confirmed that while members of ASMT had been rightly involved in the process of planning the 93/94 visits via Plan requests etc. , ASMT meetings as such were not the place to negotiate details of the programme . |
| 19 | It was further noted that when asked , either directly or indirectly , to provide further information , young school-aged children proved poor at responding . |