Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] that it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1950 a polled Finnish bull was imported — and more than one Irishman has claimed that it was in fact an Irish Moiled , in the firm belief that all polled Scandinavian cattle were descended from polled Irish cattle seized by raiding Norsemen and Danes . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , a self-declared ring-leader , Paul Taylor , shouting from the roof tops , has claimed that it was all just a sit-in protest that got out of control . |
| 3 | Monza was to be decisive for his championship , and Ken Tyrrell has written that it was Jackie 's finest race , not least because he knew he led the championship and because , having already decided to retire , he needed to do no more than the minimum , particularly since he was starting only from sixth place on the grid . |
| 4 | Jacqueline de Romilly , Professor of Greek Literature at the Sorbonne , in her Messenger Lectures at Cornell University in 1967 on ‘ Time in Greek Tragedy ’ , has argued that it was no coincidence that Greek tragedy was born at the same time as historiography . |
| 5 | IMRO , the City watchdog responsible for regulating fund managers , has revealed that it was already probing Dumenil 's administration following complaints from investors that they were receiving their income late . |
| 6 | At times , it has seemed that it was . |
| 7 | The girl in fig. 69 is a kore , no different in dress or in formal structure from her sisters , and no one has doubted that it was before 480 that Euthydikos , whose name appears on the very simple base , dedicated her ; but she evidences a revolutionary change of spirit . |
| 8 | A broader assessment of fiscal policy has concluded that it was positively destabilising but , as has been suggested above , this was probably of marginal significance [ Dow , 1964 ; Blackaby , 1978 ] . |
| 9 | A House of Commons committee of MPs has concluded that it was " appalled " at the poor standards and non-availability of information on British landfill sites . |
| 10 | Burton has declared that it was when he was performing that scene on the stage that he felt the hairs on his neck stand on end and knew for the first time the power he could have over an audience . |
| 11 | only gives brief details of the Queen 's meeting with Diana but TODAY has learned that it was held in the Queen 's sitting room at Windsor Castle . |
| 12 | Such things as fingers , hernias and extended navels have caused problems in practice when the defence has submitted that it was not the penis which was exposed but some other similar looking object . |
| 13 | Of special significance , Mark Spencer Larsen of southeastern Massachusetts has discovered that it was the females who showed the most marked increase in dental caries . |
| 14 | The British government has denied that it was notified by the UK Atomic Energy Authority ( UKAEA ) of shipments of plutonium by air from Germany to Scotland . |
| 15 | The Japanese historian Irokawa Daikichi has suggested that it was only when the economic plight of the early 1880s failed to respond to this conventional morality that some of the lower classes were forced to break out of their limitations in the violent incidents of the time . |
| 16 | He 'd bought a BMW because he 'd heard that it was the car to have , and would n't admit that he felt uncomfortable in it . |
| 17 | Once when he was alone with her he 'd said it would be nice to have a brother , but she 'd explained that it was n't possible . |
| 18 | An entry in the charges register disclosed that it was subject to restrictive covenants imposed by a deed of 1883 but did not reveal what those covenants were , because on first registration neither the deed nor a copy or abstract of it had been produced . |
| 19 | And they 'd reported that it was clear and satisfactory . |
| 20 | When I 'd checked the pin positions in the morning I 'd decided that it was going to be someone already under par who would be in a position to win next day as opposed to someone coming through the field , because I just could n't see anybody scoring well . |
| 21 | He 'd thought that it was a nickname , that it meant nothing special , and they 'd let him go on thinking that way until he 'd found out different . |
| 22 | He 'd thought that it was just the calendar which had been turned to the correct month , but something else had been changed too . |
| 23 | She 'd known that it was childish behaviour on her part , but she had n't been able to help herself . |
| 24 | She 'd known that it was bound to lead to Arnie . |
| 25 | Given the spectrum of possible interpretations to be accorded to the term employee , the Board 's choice would be accepted provided that it was an interpretation which the reviewing court believed , in the light of the overall statutory objective , to be one which had a rational basis . |
| 26 | Dot had been right all along and Mrs Parvis wrong when she 'd insisted that it was all over bar the shouting . |
| 27 | Then he 'd realized that it was no-one he would recognize . |
| 28 | he 'd realized that it was my birthday , and wha , what did I want ? |
| 29 | The Collector had agreed provided that it was brief , for there remained so much to be done before morning . |
| 30 | His explanation for the coming of the prison at that time is that this was ‘ the moment when it became understood that it was more efficient and profitable in terms of the economy of power to place people under surveillance than to subject them to some exemplary penalty ’ ( Foucault , 1990 : 39 ) . |