Example sentences of "and that it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I learnt , many years later , that they paid over £30 to have a book of poems printed , and that it sold two copies . |
| 2 | Samuel Hitching stated that he examined the Coffin carefully and that it had two canvas patches on where there were decayed places in the Wood — he also measured the thickness of the Board and they were only 5/8 of an inch at top and ½ an inch thick at the bottom — the lid was also warped that they could not screw it down properly-One of the bearers also stated that he was afraid it would fall in pieces before they got to the Church with it . |
| 3 | Gina 's friends told him that this was a ‘ personal canvas ’ and that it had more integrity than conventional beautified portraiture . |
| 4 | This meant both that the BBC itself was not to ‘ editorialize ’ about the news ( or ‘ matters of public policy ’ , as the Postmaster-General put it in 1927 ) and that it kept strict control over access to the airwaves . |
| 5 | Fujimori stated that the aid package did not address the all-round economic development needs of coca-growing areas , and that it victimized poor peasants who had no alternative but to grow coca crops . |
| 6 | It was already clear to Coleman from his analysis of the drugs-related intelligence coming out of Lebanon that the traditional heroin route to the US via Cyprus , Frankfurt and London was used regularly by both agencies , that the traffic was not always in narcotics and that it moved both ways . |
| 7 | The disadvantages of the Article were that it was perceived as dealing with ‘ representational ’ issues that were out of place in the Convention , that it undercut the position of non-liability of member States for treaties concluded by organisations , and that it placed excessive emphasis on the exceptional situation of the European Communities . |
| 8 | In it he said that the Scottish financial sector did nothing to help the country 's economy , that it benefited only a selected minority , and that it put little back into Scotland . |