Example sentences of "[that] it [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 24 the Deputy Prime Minister , Tariq Aziz , justified the detention of the team , saying that it had wrongfully seized personnel records . |
| 2 | UNITA , which had unilaterally downgraded the status of its delegation shortly before the talks , further claimed that it had already made concessions including the recognition of the ruling MPLA as a political party , and of President dos Santos as head of state . |
| 3 | Gandhi 's implicit suggestion here is that it had yet to support non-violence for , as he says , bishops still felt able to support slaughter in the name of Christianity . |
| 4 | However , the following day , when the floorboards were removed to examine the beam , it was found to be so deeply cracked in two places that they ascribed the fact that it had not given way to a ‘ wonder of [ God 's ] providence ’ . |
| 5 | The IRA admitted yesterday that it had mistakenly killed secretary Clare Mallender instead of their intended victim , Alan Dysart , the junior Defence minister , by planting a bomb aboard Mr Dysart 's yacht … . |
| 6 | By studying the gospel references to the apocalyptic Jewish figure of the ‘ Son of Man ’ — whom Jesus sometimes appears to identify with himself , but sometimes not — Wrede had come to the conclusions that Jesus had not in fact applied the title to himself ; that after his resurrection the church had come to anticipate his return ; that it had then identified Jesus himself as the coming Son of Man ; and that the impression given in the gospels of a ‘ messianic secret ’ that Jesus in his lifetime conveyed only to his closest disciples , and charged them not to reveal to others until the proper time came , was a mere literary device to support that identification . |
| 7 | If I had n't insisted on you going along on the drop we would have absolutely no proof that it had ever taken place ! |
| 8 | And at the foot of the iron structure was a high steel fender , suggesting from its dull surface that it had never seen emery paper since the day it left the foundry . |
| 9 | Or could a third party claim that it had never indicated dissent and only now wished to exercise the right ? |
| 10 | However , a PFLP-GC statement broadcast by Al-Quds on Feb. 7 pointed out that it had never claimed responsibility for the attack . |
| 11 | The driver for achieving our objective was reduced batch size , so that it fell closer to order quantity . |
| 12 | We opposed various stages of the Bill , regretting the fact that it did not cover consumer safety ; but , on Third Reading , I committed our party at the Dispatch Box — this was just before an election — to honouring the existence of the Office of Fair Trading and the appointment of John Methven as director general . |
| 13 | In the same way , if , after an oral representation , the terms of the sale are reduced into writing which does not include the representation , this may indicate that it did not form part of the agreement . |
| 14 | Its evocative power derived not only from its biblical roots , but also from the fact that it did not evoke clergy or hierarchy but rather the basic equality of all the baptized . |
| 15 | Britain 's previously firm stand against tear-gas was significantly undermined by a government statement in 1970 that it did not consider CS and similar gases to be covered by the Protocol . |
| 16 | While the fact that a phenomenon was perceived allows one to infer and assert that it actually occurred , the converse is not true : the fact that it was not perceived does not mean that it did not take place . |
| 17 | On Dec. 15 the Bissau government sent a protest note to the Senegalese authorities over the violation of its borders , reiterating that it did not provide support to the rebels . |
| 18 | Sir Robert ruled that it did not have credibility and dismissed the charges without any of the accused having to present a defence . |
| 19 | People realized it could n't when , in nineteen sixty four , a biologist by the name of Wyn Edwards at the University of Edinburgh actually bothered to publish a book arguing the theory , and when Wyn Edwards argued the case , almost immediately most people began to realize that it , that it did n't make sense and that most of the evidence that he thought supported the theory does n't in fact do so , and today Wyn Edwards has himself refused it , even he now er admits that group selection er can not work . |
| 20 | The process did n't perturb him for the simple reason that it did n't repel Willie . |
| 21 | That it did n't cost England more dearly was due to the fact that the Scots simply had n't planned for such a generous return and were consequently playing the wrong strategy . |
| 22 | An interesting feature of this school 's approach was that it set about evaluating library use by monitoring the numbers of children referred by different departments . |