Example sentences of "it was [verb] that this " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | It was argued that this was needed to allow the husband to do the field work as quickly as possible and so release him for more off-farm employment . |
| 7 | In the previous chapter ( p.41 ) it was argued that this was the period when a major ideological stress of antislavery was its embodiment of the national interest across class and denomination , and such meetings offered dramatic demonstration of aristocratic support ( the Duke of Bedford at Woburn ) , ‘ the elite of the town , churchmen and dissenters ’ ( at Dunstable ) and caught up audiences , already stirred by ‘ an intensity of feeling on the fate of the Reform Bill ’ , into an almost equally excited interest in emancipation . |
| 8 | It was argued that this arrangement would make the scheme more popular both with contributors and with advocates of self-help , since contributors would appear to be financing their own benefits , whilst experiencing a form of training in saving . |
| 9 | It was argued that this should have maximised any lateral eye movement asymmetry . |
| 10 | On the assumption that people are motivated by monetary reward , it was argued that this would provide incentives for them to work harder and for entrepreneurs to create wealth and jobs . |
| 11 | It was argued that this could best be achieved by preventing the need for candidates from the same party to compete with each other in multimember seats , thereby reducing their need spend huge sums of money during the campaign . |
| 12 | It was argued that this was obvious because every competent housewife knows that dust can be removed from a floor by the passage of a vacuum cleaner . |
| 13 | It was believed that this area offered more opportunities for conversion into convenient living space . |
| 14 | Originally it was believed that this was a simple ‘ smokescreen ’ , a kind of instant fog in which the cuttlefish became hidden and could escape . |
| 15 | It was believed that this intervention would be aided if the state had control of certain key industries ( eg coal , railways , gas , electricity distribution ) , which were crucial to post-war economic recovery and which were in such a rundown state that it was unlikely that sufficient private capital would materialise to rejuvenate them . |
| 16 | ‘ Mare ’ is Latin for sea , because when this appendage was given in the seventeenth century it was believed that this is what they were . |
| 17 | Potatoes were planted on Good Friday as it was believed that this was one day on which the Devil had no power to poison and ruin the soil . |
| 18 | It was understood that this concealed differences among EC partners , with France arguing for an EC-Iraq meeting irrespective of the position regarding US-Iraqi contacts , and Italy and Spain prepared to endorse a meeting with Tariq Aziz provided that an eventual date had been set for a Bush-Aziz meeting . |
| 19 | It was recognized that this would inevitably deprive many parts of Britain , especially Wales and Scotland , of passenger services altogether ( Aldcroft 1968 ) . |
| 20 | In the end it was accepted that this happened , but the only explanation offered was that the blasting in the nearby quarry for lime was to blame for the movement which suggested settlement . |
| 21 | Once it was accepted that this kind of question could be raised , the way was open to the conclusion that the Bible should simply be treated as a collection of ancient religious literature with no special claims to be heard or accepted except where it happened to express some general religious ‘ principle ’ that could be recognised as universally valid — the kernel within the husk . |
| 22 | But this women 's suffrage element is only a part of the second item 's subject field and not explicit in the title ; it would require competent and perceptive indexing to bring it out , if it was desired that this should be attempted in the index . |
| 23 | It was emphasised that this event was not only intended for those interested in ecumenical groups . |
| 24 | The major interest was in the preparation of audiovisual teaching aids and it was decided that this should be the focus of a co-operative scheme and a steering committee was formed to co-ordinate the work . |
| 25 | Because the new filter would be the last link in the chain , it was decided that this would be primarily a biological filter . |
| 26 | However , after three months the UK government privatized the telephone industry , and it was decided that this newly quoted company , British Telecommunications , should be included in the index with a weight of 0.10 . |
| 27 | As the intention in this study was to have subjects make estimates while they were driving it was decided that this would be unnecessarily difficult . |
| 28 | It was decided that this superb item should be auctioned and the proceeds given towards raffle prizes at the Reunion . |
| 29 | It was hoped that this would result in better co-operation from local administrators and party members in the supply of labour and fuel , etc . |
| 30 | It was hoped that this would reveal the differences to be taken into account when establishing a revised organisation structure , and also highlight the areas of opportunity to enable the Colleges to move towards the state implied by the ideal model . |