Example sentences of "it was [verb] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was suspected that he wished to abolish slavery , to found schools , to build roads and to modernize the country . |
| 2 | Beyond Postojna the roads became increasingly worse , twisting and turning as we went through at Janene on the Croatian border where it was explained that we would have to pay a reduced fee ( as we were carrying humanitarian goods ) of 13DM in order to acquire the appropriate papers to allow us to enter Croatia . |
| 3 | On being asked what constituted such vulgarity , it was explained that it was because it had ‘ neither vest nor pants to cover his lower limbs ! ’ |
| 4 | It was explained that it was hoped that they would ‘ befriend ’ a life preparation student for craft sessions , working alongside each other on a variety of projects . |
| 5 | Instead , for instance , of saying a plant was ‘ biennial ’ , it was explained that you plant the seeds this year and they will flower next year . |
| 6 | The Prison Officers Association said it was astounding that it was so easy to escape from a building which was supposed to be secure . |
| 7 | After an initial two nights in the sleep laboratory in which it was confirmed that he was continuously awake , he returned with his wife for a five-night stay . |
| 8 | On that basis it was confirmed that he would make the donation . |
| 9 | He was taken to the city 's main hospital where it was confirmed that he 'd had a heart attack . |
| 10 | Staff at Lord Beaverbrook 's estate in Oxfordshire are waiting to learn if their jobs are safe after it was confirmed that he ca n't pay his debts . |
| 11 | I was glad to accept the honour not so much for myself but for the cutter service as a whole when it was confirmed that I was to attend at Buckingham Palace the following summer . |
| 12 | and about two weeks after that it was diagnosed that she had cancer of the ovary . |
| 13 | Not me , no the drivers and conductors and inspectors , they had a uniform and it was seen that they did wear it . |
| 14 | The actual facts ' of who was arrested during the riots , whether black or white , were hardly debated since it was assumed that they were mostly black and mostly unemployed and involved with crime ( Keith , 1987 ) . |
| 15 | It was assumed that they would meet the need . |
| 16 | Until very recently , married women were unable to draw the allowance for the care of invalid relatives because it was assumed that they would do that anyway as they were at home all the time , despite the fact that two-thirds of married women work . |
| 17 | Since the carriers risked their ships , it was assumed that they would select and supervise their crews with enough care to prevent the damages that could result from improper management and navigation of the ship . |
| 18 | If there were general laws governing the history of life , it was assumed that they would be revealed by the fossil record . |
| 19 | Until recently it was assumed that they all persisted as adults , but is has now been shown that the chilling of infective larvae before administration to calves will produce arrested L5 ; hypobiosis at this stage has also been observed in naturally infected calves in Switzerland , Austria and Canada , although the extent to which this occurs naturally after ingestion of larvae in late autumn and its significance in the transmission of the infection has not yet been fully established . |
| 20 | It was assumed that she had eloped with her boy friend . |
| 21 | It was assumed that she would do so on the arm of one of her sons , but they followed behind in a somewhat passive procession . |
| 22 | When he had not returned by lam , it was assumed that he was the wanted man . |
| 23 | One of my own patients grew up in a loving family where it was assumed that he would eventually study law — just like his grandfather , his father and his uncle . |
| 24 | Max was said to be in the grip of some form of neurosis , but it was assumed that he would grow out of it . |
| 25 | He was thirty-five to forty and it was assumed that he was an army intelligence officer . |
| 26 | Newspapers printed a photograph of a letter to a flood-control committee bearing Mr Li 's signature , so it was assumed that he could still put pen to paper . |
| 27 | ( That the government was ready for a strike was a widespread interpretation of its appointment of Ian MacGregor to chair the NCB from September 1983 on ; MacGregor chaired British Steel in 1980–1 , a period encompassing its major dispute , and was believed responsible for the major cuts in job levels ; it was assumed that he was expected to achieve the same in the coal industry . ) |
| 28 | In his letter , Brig Cordy-Simpson said that since Gen Mladic had not replied to UN proposals on how the airlift would be managed , it was assumed that he had agreed to them . |
| 29 | The conclusion of the Griffin mission was , first , that US aid would help France and Vietnam to checkmate Chinese communist invasion , if it came ; and second , it was assumed that it would somehow ‘ sterilise areas of Vietminh infection ’ . |
| 30 | Trade unions fell into the second of these groups , but , because of their large and fluctuating membership and because of certain provisions in the Trade Union Act 1871 , it was assumed that it was impracticable to bring actions against them so as to make their funds liable . |