Example sentences of "[noun] was [vb pp] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Italy 's air force was told yesterday that unless it bombed fast moving lava flows pouring from Mount Etna to divert their course , the 6,500 people living at the foot of Europe 's highest volcano could face destruction . |
| 2 | In this situation the circulation was altered so that a cold polar vortex remained until the end of the simulation , thereby maintaining the presence of PSCs for a much longer period . |
| 3 | After the ‘ U-2 ’ American spy-plane incident in 1960 Pakistan was warned again that the USSR ‘ possesses means to render harmless in case of need the war bases used for aggressive actions against the Soviet Union ’ . |
| 4 | Accordingly , the programme was designed so that it could be modified in the light of experience , and families could choose to discontinue investigation at every stage from the initial screening test to the confirmed diagnosis . |
| 5 | THE Scotch whisky industry was warned yesterday that it must aim its activities at younger drinkers to arrest the decline in sales . |
| 6 | Later the law was amended so that profits from such activities could be confiscated . |
| 7 | Largely as a result of these influential criticisms , the law was altered so that the requirement of intent was abrogated . |
| 8 | This could be done more effectively if the law was changed so that it became the jury 's responsibility to assess only the actual damage to the plaintiff and the judge 's responsibility to impose an unlimited fine on the defendants according to his view of their culpability . |
| 9 | As companies grew larger and their clerical workforce expanded , clerical work was reorganized so that each worker specialized in particular tasks . |
| 10 | Randomisation was blocked so that the two possible sequences ( pork/human , human/pork ) were evenly distributed among subjects . |
| 11 | But the borough 's environmental health committee was told yesterday that the outbreak , which has been sweeping the region , is slowing down . |
| 12 | These residents , mostly old people , were determined to stay in the area , and the plan was put forward that they should be re-housed in nearby Innes Place . |
| 13 | The machine was manoeuvred so that the tip of the dildo was just touching the lush folds of her sweet vulva . |
| 14 | An inquest in the town was told yesterday that Swales , who had drunk six pints , had been seen at least once before trying to beat trains over the unmanned crossing . |
| 15 | The conference was told yesterday that police forces have introduced a new command structure . |
| 16 | The location of factories was changed so that they were situated near coal ; more intensive exploitation of coal deposits and iron ore meant that either , as in the Black Country , the little villages began to merge and quite large areas of land were enveloped and spoilt , or that , as in the case of Manchester , a factory town emerged . |
| 17 | In August 1941 Dr Waltzog of the Legal Department of the German High Command stated that : ‘ At the beginning of this war the opinion was held abroad that the German parachutists were not legal combatants but franc-tireurs or spies . |
| 18 | COOKSTOWN Magistrates Court was told yesterday that a farmer forged his deceased mother-in-laws name on a cheque to pay his electricity bill . |
| 19 | A BELFAST court was told yesterday that there was no terrorist involvement in an arson attack when a garage and a car in north Belfast were set on fire on Thursday night . |
| 20 | Inverness Sheriff Court was told yesterday that one of the culprits , 29-year-old Joseph Shields , was their neighbour . |
| 21 | The phone rota was redrawn so that the week was divided between five , not six . |
| 22 | An example of how they were ideologically disconnected is the photo archive , which at Forster 's instruction was reorganised so that it was no longer under names of artists , obviously the most useful approach for museum curators . |
| 23 | Subsequently , the statement of claim was amended so that it was restricted to the tax assessment under s 488 , TA 1970 . |
| 24 | Last year the French constitution was modified so that if the treaty on European economic and monetary union is eventually ratified , the government can delegate monetary policy to a supranational body . |
| 25 | And finally , social citizenship rights , on a range from ‘ the right to a modicum of economic wealth and security ’ to ‘ the right to share to the full in the social heritage and to live the life of a civilized being according to the standards prevailing in society ’ were won in the twentieth century , especially in the post-war period when the welfare state was extended so that all were guaranteed education , health care and a ‘ safety net ’ of financial provision through what was then ‘ national assistance ’ . |
| 26 | After injection of the labelled leucocytes , radioactivity on the abdominal scan was distributed so that spleen>liver>bone marrow ; in some cases , urinary bladder activity also appeared . |
| 27 | The port of Southampton was enlarged so that ocean-going liners were attracted to its facilities and in 1933 what was then the largest dry dock in the world was opened by King George V. |
| 28 | THE GOVERNMENT was warned yesterday that a heavy-handed approach to curbing inflation could jeopardise Britain 's chances of exploiting the opportunities provided by the creation of a barrier-free Europe in 1992 . |
| 29 | The jury was told yesterday that Casabona admits false imprisonment of the lodger and unlawful sex with a woman under the age of 16 . |
| 30 | If the recording was made so that student performance could be assessed then obviously playback is essential . |