Example sentences of "[is] [that] it [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The significance of this strikingly worded note is that it was written in full knowledge of the methods already being used by " local commanders " to " persuade Jugoslavs that they should return to Jugoslavia " — ie the " deception " whereby they were allowed to believe that they were being taken to Italy . |
| 2 | In our view , although the Code extends beyond the treatment of those in detention , what is clear is that it was intended to protect suspects who are vulnerable to abuse or pressure from police officers or who may believe themselves to be so . |
| 3 | The police say that there is no suggestion that it was the result of terrorism ; the belief rather is that it was caused by building works being carried out as part of the routine modernisation of the royal residences . |
| 4 | If Day-Lewis is the movie 's greatest strength then its most noticeable defect is that it was shot by two different cinematog-raphers , often with the same scene lit very differently as if taking place at contrasting times of day . |
| 5 | ( There was no way we could check this figure ; the point is that it was accepted as a social fact . ) |
| 6 | The reality is that it was beaten long ago . |
| 7 | My bet is that it was started by one cave dweller stalking another through the gravel of Peking or Java , his stone club at the ready . |
| 8 | So the point of conclusion is if the myth is different in the Bible then the likely explanation is that it was tampered with , but that the scribes and the people who wrote the Bible altered the and they changed it round why should they change this myth ? |
| 9 | I think all I think most of the other things I the only er one I I would like to raise is that it was agreed that the new committee should be recommended to appoint a press secretary . |
| 10 | Further , since he is only one of a significant group of bishops who came from court in the early seventh century , if there was any general transfer of secular authority to bishops in this period , and the evidence is far from clear on this , the likelihood is that it was condoned by the king . |
| 11 | Well increasingly , of course , they are English words and that 's because , increasingly , we are getting closer and closer to erm expressing intention , and the thing about language , you see , is that it was designed by nature to be a vehicle for intention , and that 's what we all secretly know , but in fact we 've never been helped to think about it . |
| 12 | All I can say is that it was edited by two women , it 's being promoted by a third , it 's being marketed by a fourth , the rights were sold by a fifth , and in Britain the serial rights were bought by a sixth . |
| 13 | All one can say about the legend of Mu is that it was invented recently and has no scientific backing whatsoever . |
| 14 | The answer is that it was borrowed from the gravitational energy of the universe . |
| 15 | A more recent view is that it was attached in the 14th century to a 13th century church . |
| 16 | ‘ The saddest thing of all about it , ’ he says , ‘ is that it was meant to be the proudest . ’ |
| 17 | My guess is that it was concealed inside . ’ |