Example sentences of "it was [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As was noted above , it was suspected that this was a factor in the lack of a build-up of long-stay patients in the new services established after Powick was closed to admissions . |
| 2 | This would cause many of the possible infinities to cancel out , but it was suspected that some infinities might still remain . |
| 3 | It was maintained that small amounts of assistance to firms could result in measurable improvements in the sales of products of assisted firms . |
| 4 | No , these did n't show any stalls , but they 're i it was explained that one of the constraints in the design of the scheme was the brief that they had to leave space for er as many stalls as possible to be erected . |
| 5 | In the last chapter it was explained that some of the world 's languages are ‘ tone languages ’ , in which substituting one distinctive tone for another on a particular word or morpheme can cause a change in the dictionary ( ‘ lexical ’ ) meaning of that word or morpheme , or in some aspect of its grammatical categorisation . |
| 6 | It was explained that these accounts would be used in a later practical class . |
| 7 | It was explained that this was because the company was perpetually producing new products with life-cycles of two to four years and that the product mixes over the narrow product range in current production were largely set by the available type of capacity over such periods . |
| 8 | I remind him that there has been criticism historically when statements have been made about incidents in Great Britain , when it was commented that similar statements had not been made in the context of Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | When it was seen that all clan chiefs had taken the oath , Dalrymple was frustrated , but not for long . |
| 10 | Lastly , it was assumed that new powers for planning would become available , including powers for the control of land values . |
| 11 | Until recently , it was assumed that other birds rely on different clues to guide them home . |
| 12 | It was assumed that all learning could be reduced to a series of conditioned reflexes . |
| 13 | In the British Army , discipline was centred around self-discipline , and it was assumed that each man had enough self-discipline to carry out an order without being told twice . |
| 14 | In 1990 , it was assumed that each assistant would average twenty items a minute ( Cutter and Rowe 1990 ) . |
| 15 | It was assumed that many who appeared on the box had been to drama school . |
| 16 | When Mrs Thatcher took office in May 1979 it was assumed that southern Africa would cause a massive rift between her and the black African states of the Commonwealth . |
| 17 | The widespread nature of the process took people by surprise ; it was assumed that metropolitan growth was a permanent feature of modern society . |
| 18 | It was assumed that spoken forms which failed to observe the rules of morphology and syntax considered appropriate to written forms were ‘ incorrect ’ and ‘ ungrammatical ’ . |
| 19 | It was assumed that any erosion terraces would show as modes in the frequency distribution . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This belief had been reinforced by the experiences of 1866 and 1870 ; it was assumed that these showed the future pattern of warfare . |
| 22 | Yes , and my parents had booked the audition for the Central School and found me a bed-sit in Swiss Cottage and being completely naive it was assumed that this was where I would be going . |
| 23 | Until recently it was assumed that this was the final signal concerning the Cossacks before the repatriations actually began , giving Eighth Army 's authorization for those Cossacks who were Soviet citizens to be handed over , even though it did not explicitly set aside AFHQ 's previous ruling that " force has not , repeat not , to be used " . |
| 24 | In early ethnic models of settlement origin it was assumed that this was a Celtic pattern of settlement , but could it be that this pattern in fact represents the oldest arrangements in the landscape ? |
| 25 | Along with earlier ideas of colonisation of the landscape , it was assumed that original churches had been supplemented with additional chapels of ease as needed . |
| 26 | The late fifties and early sixties , when I lived in Windsor Great Park , were creative and critical in manner : the established order was questioned ( sometimes cynically ) , but it was assumed that well-directed idealism could change human society . |
| 27 | It was assumed that most of it went to the Provisionals and a smaller amount to the Official IRA . |
| 28 | It was indicated that testing times could be reduced and that the potential existed for cost reductions in component overhaul , although these have yet to be quantified precisely . |
| 29 | In all six cases it was indicated that sexual intercourse had taken place . |
| 30 | It was concluded that bilateral speech representation applied only to strong left handers with left handed relatives . |