Example sentences of "[adv] that it [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea that the Renaissance could be named , classified , described , and interpreted so that it was rendered readily comprehensible within some generalised scheme of the humanities was no longer a clearly defined process . |
| 2 | Certainly the Devon , in the late eighteenth century , was described by William Marshall ( 1796 ) as being ‘ in size somewhat below the desirable point for the heavier works of husbandry ’ , making up for this deficiency with its agility and exertion so that it was regarded as the best worker in Britain . |
| 3 | The sun had moved so that it was setting on the roof of the building on the western side of the yard . |
| 4 | Placing the egg in the palm of his right hand , Vic let it roll up his forearm and then jerked his elbow so that it was propelled into the air . |
| 5 | He lowered his voice so that it was drowned by the raucous chatter of the men in the rear seats . |
| 6 | It was not , of course , private — simply a patch of sand directly beneath four Winds , where the rocks jutted out on either side so that it was screened from the rest of the bay and , at high tide , sometimes cut off from it . |
| 7 | Subsidise it ; bail it out ; or nationalise it , so that it was protected by the bottomless purse of the taxpayer . |
| 8 | Red warning lights were flashing the bridge of The Sandhopper as the two boats drew closer , Morton now angling The Abbott so that it was heading directly towards the other craft . |
| 9 | Subsequently , the statement of claim was amended so that it was restricted to the tax assessment under s 488 , TA 1970 . |
| 10 | In other cases it seems that some assessment was made , at a high level , of the general condition of a school , so that it was considered inappropriate for project status . |
| 11 | The Gay Centre in Glasgow was deteriorating socially , so much so that it was coming to the state where women and others were feeling oppressed by the atmosphere created by insensitive youths who seemed to believe the Centre , including the back room ( our only meeting-place ) , was their seven-nights-a-week preserve . |
| 12 | There was good reason for him to remain at the helm now , too : the wind was freshening and veering , so that it was coming close to dead astern . |
| 13 | I did the same with another strip around the right ankle and over the foot , so that it was held between the sole of the foot and the wooden backing of the old door . |
| 14 | All four men stood in the room and Farrell raised the pistol once more so that it was aimed at the agent 's head . |
| 15 | Opposite the fire-place was a table , which I should call a Pembroke , only that it was made of deal , and I can not tell how far such a name may be applied to such humble material . |
| 16 | It was a strange smell ; she did not liken it to spirits , beer and maleness , only that it was increasing her feeling of faintness . |
| 17 | Edwin and Robert Grabhorn , who founded the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco in 1920 , worked so amicably together that it was said of them : ‘ When Ed 's away the shop goes to pieces ; when Bob 's away , Ed goes to pieces ’ ; but it would be a mistake to think that relationships between printers were always so harmonious . |
| 18 | As Griffiths LJ explained in Lion Laboratories Ltd v Evans " I believe that the so-called iniquity rule evolved because in most cases where the facts justified a publication in breach of confidence the plaintiff had behaved so disgracefully or criminally that it was judged in the public interest that his behaviour should be exposed " and , as he aptly stated , " there is a world of difference between what is in the public interest and what is of interest to the public " . |
| 19 | The surpising thing is not that this is happening now , but rather that it was staved off for so long . |
| 20 | Riven felt somehow that it was fitting — Jenny 's facsimile had come ahead of them . |
| 21 | What is incontrovertible is only that I had it , not that it was caused by anything ‘ out there ’ beyond my experience . |
| 22 | Not that it was slow down in the sense of Do n't go too fast physically . |
| 23 | Not that it was going to be easy to improve on the earlier filmed interview when , asked why he rarely practised in the nets , he replied : ‘ I do n't like confined spaces . ’ |
| 24 | Perhaps the other point I can make is to go back to the question of why women tutors and people in the university generally have emphasised harassment of students by academic staff more than they 've emphasised harassment by students of one another , and I think it 's not that it was thought that students did n't commonly make each other uncomfortable , but as an issue of principle in terms of whether it 's appropriate for university or college authorities to intervene in what many people regard as students ' private lives . |
| 25 | It was ah no I mean it was you know it 's not that it was Do you mind if I watch the news at six ? |
| 26 | Cap Gemini Sogeti SA said yesterday that it was making the offer for the remaining 28.8% of London W-based software and computer services company Hoskyns Group Plc as it promised when it bought its majority stake from GEC Siemens Plc . |
| 27 | THE United States said yesterday that it was studying the possibility of parachuting relief supplies to civilians in Bosnia , but it emphasised that such an operation might not be successful in the rugged country . |
| 28 | So even if we agree that abolition was his intention and that that intention would have failed , if we consider also that it was mistaken anyway , we need pursue the point no further , except to add this : granted that the evil of insufficiently regulated competition is that it leads ultimately to the vicious exploitation of employees , the point can hardly be made of industrial co-operatives . |
| 29 | Chicherin believed not only that serfdom was immoral but also that it was acting as a brake on the economy , that it could not be justified as a bastion against pauperism , and finally — a somewhat unusual argument — that it entailed the improper transference to the gentry of responsibilities which ought to be exercised by the state . |
| 30 | They actually tried to have a structure for the organisation that had doctors , nurses , alternative healers and patients with parity at the organisational level , but they kept the front up that it was run by doctors , because that way they would be acknowledged within the discourses of medicine as having equal power to argue . |