Example sentences of "that it [vb past] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vinelott J rejected the SFO 's argument that it had an untrammelled right to require the production and use of the evidence in the transcript ; that argument had been advanced and rejected when the liquidators applied for an order to examination ( In re Arrows Ltd [ 1992 ] 2 WLR 923 ) . |
| 2 | Most of the 800 named by the commission were wanted by Yugoslavia , and the FO secretly acknowledged that it had an excellent case . |
| 3 | was not regarded as a political issue in the sense that it had an important place on the agenda of party politics . |
| 4 | Very quickly , by the early 1950s , the idea that a true ‘ Welfare State ’ had been created and that it offered an effective means of solving social inequalities was being criticised by the likes of Richard Titmuss . |
| 5 | E. A. H. Roberts , and later E. P. ( later Sir Edward ) Abraham , both students of Robinson 's , succeeded in purifying and crystallizing lysozyme , while Chain collaborated in showing that it was indeed an enzyme , as Fleming had suggested , and that it decomposed an essential constituent of the cell wall of those organisms which were sensitive to its effect . |
| 6 | This makes the special position of the maternal uncle seem even more anomalous , and led Junod to suppose that we could only understand this peculiar relationship if we assumed that it represented an anachronistic throwback or ‘ survival ’ of an earlier matriarchal stage . |
| 7 | Although Aquino gave assurances that the Kabisig would not be turned into a political party , the leadership of the LDP treated the new movement with great suspicion , believing that it represented an independent vehicle which could be used by Aquino to run her own favoured candidates in the 1992 elections . |
| 8 | Of the Imperial Camel Corps he would say that it comprised an aristocratic element among its officers and complete ruffians in the ranks ; all they had in common was a disdain for danger . |
| 9 | The publicity generated by the government 's efforts to ban the book ensured that it became an instant bestseller . |
| 10 | When Einstein 's equation was applied to calculate the behaviour of the Universe on the large scale it was apparent that it favoured an expanding Universe ; however , this conflicted with the prejudice , then current , that the Universe was static . |
| 11 | The decision to dismiss Yakovlev caused strong criticism in the liberal press , which warned that it showed an increasing reluctance to brook opposition on the part of the Russian leadership and could be interpreted as a sacrifice to conservative forces prior to the forthcoming Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 12 | I blinked and looked up at her face again , to find that it held an icy glare . |
| 13 | Motorola Inc said yesterday that it paid an undisclosed sum for a stake in Cary , North Carolina-based Virtus Corp , a privately-held developer of the Virtus WalkThrough drawing and visualisation package for conceptual design . |
| 14 | Forty suggests that the attraction of the neo-classical , which emerged from a somewhat wider range as the most successful of Wedgewood 's styles , was that it provided an acceptable facade for the introduction of the advances being made by ceramic science , the most modern techniques thereby being employed in the improvement of reproductions , a tension in commercial styling which has been strongly asserted ever since . |
| 15 | The beauty of Indirect Rule was that it created an administrative situation in which personal influence was , in theory at any rate , the administrator 's only resource . |