Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [was/were] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | For centuries it was ordained that , despite the evidence , everything in the Universe circled the Earth : a number of people were put to death because they happened to disagree . |
| 2 | To remedy these grievances it was enacted that the Charter of the Forest was to be kept in all its articles , that the perambulations made in the time of Edward I were to be observed , that those perambulations which still remained to be made should be made as quickly as possible , and that the forest boundaries in each county should be confirmed by royal charters , as laid down in the perambulations . |
| 3 | In one study of a small group of wrist-slashers it was found that more than half were well , or had shown improvement , 5–6 years later ( Nelson and Grunebaum 1971 ) . |
| 4 | As it happens , in the early days of computers it was thought that it would be only a few years before computers would be able to understand natural language . |
| 5 | From these relationships it was established that total leakages ( T + S + M ) must equal total injections ( G + I + X ) . |
| 6 | In other words it was recognised that community care is not necessarily , and not for ail , a cheaper form of care . |
| 7 | ( After discussion with staff in schools it was agreed that the checklist was an inappropriate means of analysis for a satirical fable such as Animal Farm . ) |
| 8 | At the end of four months it was discovered that he was only just sixteen . |
| 9 | In mid-1974 he developed phlebitis — inflammation of the veins — and within months it was revealed that he had a thrombosis which could have killed him in seconds . |
| 10 | In some areas it was acknowledged that these plots contributed substantially to the food supply . |
| 11 | In some areas it was reported that large numbers of troops had ben deployed to restore order . |
| 12 | Lloyd 's Underwriters , where despite the opposition of the defendants it was ordered that the taking of depositions before an examiner of the court should , as had been requested by the foreign court , be videotaped . |
| 13 | In a comparison between blocking and non-blocking strains of mice it was shown that the potential of embryos to arrest at the 2-cell stage is determined solely by the genotype of the egg and occurs irrespective of the paternal or embryonic contribution ( 18 ) . |
| 14 | In five of the six companies it was found that the planning department could be involved in special projects on an ad hoc basis . |
| 15 | In most of the early work on quantity constrained models it was assumed that any observed general unemployment had to be either classical or Keynesian but not both at the same time . |
| 16 | Thus , in Hanson v. Church Commissioners it was held that where the matter was one in which there was a wider public interest it may not be possible for one party to withdraw without the assent of the other once the proceedings were begun . |
| 17 | For four decades it was supposed that Hicks 's model contained all of the basic ingredients of the General Theory approach to the theory of employment . |
| 18 | In the recession of the early 1980s this service suffered immensely through poor sales and ultra high terminations — in those days it was said that washroom would be the hardest hit in any recession because it was not seen as an essential service ; much confidence was , then lost in the service . |
| 19 | As the days passed , hope faded of finding John Brown alive and after 14 days it was agreed that there was no urgency as the search was only to find his body for Christian burial . |
| 20 | Despite these serious reservations it was recognized that there was some good academic work being done . |
| 21 | The opinions of staff and governors were sought and although there were some reservations it was decided that a questionnaire should be distributed to parents . |
| 22 | In place of the attempt to produce a synthetic totalising definition of classes it was argued that an analysis which respects the specificity of economic class relations ( defined at the level of property-holding ) , social collectivities and political forces is likely to be more fruitful . |
| 23 | 4 ) In several places it was felt that the paper provided further evidence of the gap that exists between how we perceive things and how our constituents see them who , for the most part see themselves as the ‘ money raisers ’ — a role they also fulfil for several other organisations as well . |
| 24 | Having carefully considered all the alternatives it was decided that our staff would be invited to apply for one secondment to explore the area of school industry links , with an emphasis on the development of a partnership . |
| 25 | Considerable attention has been focused on the distinction between causing grievous bodily harm ( section 18 ) and inflicting grievous bodily harm ( section 20 ) : for many years it was believed that the more restrictive word ‘ inflict ’ meant that section 20 required proof of a sufficiently direct action by D to constitute an assault , but the House of Lords has now decided that there can be an ‘ infliction ’ of GBH without proof of an assault . |
| 26 | For years it was believed that the ‘ fanatic ’ Toscanini conducted everything very fast , though it is an attested fact that his Bayreuth Parsifal was the slowest in the theatre 's history and that his famous Falstaff , not to mention a good deal of his Mozart and Brahms , was unusually broad in its pacing . |
| 27 | In the early post-war years it was believed that investment expenditures were not very responsive to changes in interest rates , and most of the empirical evidence at the time , seemed to support this view . |
| 28 | For many years it was accepted that two-tone fish ( it occurs with other species , but rarely ) are the result of winter hibernation , the dark portion of the fish being the part that is buried in bottom mud . |
| 29 | Birds respond to a wide range of sounds but for many years it was assumed that their low-frequency hearing was poorer than ours . |
| 30 | For years it was assumed that the bear of Croisset broke out of his bearishness solely with Louise Colet — ‘ the only sentimental episode of any importance in the life of Flaubert , ’ Emile Faguet declared . |