Example sentences of "[that] it [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 281 , save that it extended a principle previously confined to the husband/wife cases to a case of parents giving security for the debts of their son . |
| 2 | Questions poured towards the chair , and Mrs Murphy banged her gavel so hard on the coffee table that it left a mark , which distressed her so much that she forgot for a moment why she was hammering and stared sadly at the dent in the wood . |
| 3 | That is not to say that it left no trace , with its demise , and the anti-Modernism of the new novelist was not instinctive or immediate but of slow and uncertain growth . |
| 4 | e.g. to generalize about the significance of an event : " The basic weakness of the Treaty ( of Versailles ) lay in the fact that it left the German people in a frame of mind not conducive to a lasting peace . |
| 5 | It is important that the product reaches the plaintiff in the same form that it left the manufacturer . |
| 6 | Only , so barely perceptible that it fringed the imagined , this faintest drone of men , a lot of men , singing . |
| 7 | Mr Fitton yesterday made clear that he had always been acting in an independent capacity in the offer for Eagle , and that it had no connection with Braithwaite . |
| 8 | Casting aside Pennzoil 's claims that it had no intention of launching a bid , Chevron moved into top gear to protect itself against a takeover which could be worth $35billion and would revive memories of some of the biggest corporate battles of the 1970 's and 80's . |
| 9 | That meant , above all , that America would signal to the Soviet Union that it had no intention of rubbing Moscow 's nose in its defeat . |
| 10 | In Better Schools ( 1985 ) the government singled out ‘ peace studies ’ for criticism , saying that it had no place on the school curriculum because it failed to deal with certain issues in a balanced and objective manner . |
| 11 | But because Hinkley C was seen as a virtual ‘ replica ’ of the Sizewell design , the NII had made it clear from the start that it had no major reservations . |
| 12 | ‘ It has no name , ’ Sapan said , ‘ but when I told some other people I brought here that it had no name , they said to me that it was called Narnia . ’ |
| 13 | However , the Shetland Islands Council made it clear that it had no intention of grasping the nettle itself , and taking any decision . |
| 14 | Sabre has stressed that it had no formal link with Clydesale Office Equipment , which has now closed down . |
| 15 | At independence in 1961 and during the period immediately afterwards , the new TANU government was concerned that it had no direct voice in the press . |
| 16 | Nevertheless the episode had shown the Government that it had no authority to ban newspapers published in Tanzania which were properly registered and also that it might have been in difficulty had it not discovered a technical irregularity in the case of Ulimwengu . |
| 17 | During April 1988 , Suchard , the Swiss-based chocolate manufacturer , launched a dawn raid on Rowntree , the York-based company , quickly scooping up a stake of 14.9 per cent as a ‘ strategic investment ’ , but claiming that it had no intention of launching a full-scale takeover bid . |
| 18 | After the ceremony , she and Ludovico went to Chiesa Santo Spirito , at the end of their road , where Ludovico had arranged for them to be blessed , explaining to her that it had no religious significance and did not endanger her non-Catholic soul . |
| 19 | Sotheby 's case for being discharged from this hugely expensive and embarrassing case rested on the argument that it was merely the custodian of the treasure , was unaware that its export licences from the Lebanon had been fraudulently acquired , and that it had no further interest in the treasure . |
| 20 | Certainly , EDS 's flurry of activity in Italy and Spain over the last few months is proof that it had no dire need of BT to capture the interest of new customers and business partners in the southern reaches of Europe . |
| 21 | Greece has always stressed that it had no designs on Macedonian territory and it has succeeded in getting its neighbours to say the same . |
| 22 | Even the Home Secretary , Merlyn Rees , in his Second Reading speech commending the measure to the House , volunteered that it had no theme . |
| 23 | This was rejected by the court which simply stated that it had no power to consider the validity of an Act of Parliament . |
| 24 | In all this my life was not novel , except that it had no witnesses , because I was an only child . |
| 25 | On appeal the Court of Appeal held that it had no jurisdiction under section 13(2) ( a ) of the Supreme Court Ordinanceto hear the appeal since the proceedings before the High Court judge were criminal and not in any civil cause or matter . |
| 26 | In the result , their Lordships have humbly advised Her Majesty that the appeal against the ruling of the Court of Appeal that it had no jurisdiction should be dismissed , and that the appeal against the judgment of Barnett J. should be dismissed . |
| 27 | Its virtue was that it had no neighbours and it had been picked out for just that reason : no-one to ask questions , no-one expecting to start up a friendship . |
| 28 | In conference with Gerald Gardiner , subsequently Lord Chancellor , who had somewhat late in the day raised his flag as a member of the Labour Party , it was decided that the best course of action was for the Labour Party to be asked to be represented by Gardiner at the Vassall Tribunal and to inform Radcliffe that it had no additional witness to come to him . |
| 29 | Moves to have her elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1902 were squashed when the council , on legal advice , decided that it had no power to elect a married woman . |
| 30 | The book was an abstract of a work which had not appeared , and which never did in the form envisaged ; this meant that it had no references or bibliography , and that in it Darwin wore his immense learning lightly . |