Example sentences of "[coord] [that] it [vb past] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Although individual consent was of central importance to Hobbes , he did not believe that the authority of law rested on the fact that it promoted a desirable objective or that it reflected a profound truth .
2 This has no application when the type of substantive error is that the tribunal was improperly constituted , or that it made an order which it was not empowered to make .
3 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 .
4 However , when there was a conflict it appears that both interpretations were considered , and that it took a considerable amount of time to resolve the conflict .
5 My recollection was that the detective story was one of E. Phillips Oppenheim 's , and that it concerned a horrific murder whereby the victim was , so to speak , liquefied and poured down the sink , so that the ‘ essence ’ of him was thus disposed of .
6 Ziegler ( 1978 ) , in his discussion of the Mass Observation records on the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953 , records that the two most commonly cited reasons for supporting the coronation were that it created wealth and that it united the nation .
7 It is possible that it could have been left with the registry in this office and that it reached the case file as a result , but I can not be sure .
8 It has also been claimed recently that Proconsul lacked a tail , as do extant hominoids , and that it had a relatively larger brain than comparably sized monkeys ( Box 2 ) , and there is now little doubt that Proconsul is phylogenetically linked with the Hominoidea .
9 ‘ We realised that the whole psychology of collecting is a fascinating area and that it had a lot more potential … hence the reason for the Festival .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Bulgaria , which had recognized Macedonia in January [ see pp. 38703 ; 38734 ] , amended its position in February by stating that full diplomatic relations would be established only if the republic officially declared that there was no Macedonian minority in Bulgaria and that it had no territorial claims on Bulgaria .
13 The declaration proclaimed further that the Russian people had the sole right to own , utilize and dispose of Russia 's natural wealth ; that the RSFSR had the right to form its own diplomatic links with other Soviet republics and foreign states ; and that it had the right to participate in the exercise of powers which it had voluntarily passed to the Union .
14 Propaganda actions , such as Christmas sales of excess butter , failed to stop the complaints about the policy : that it tended to help large farms , which could adopt intensive production methods , rather than the needy ; that it distorted world markets and upset the US , which threatened a trade war with the EC over CAP in 1986 — 7 ; and that it harmed the environment by encouraging the use of chemical fertilisers .
15 She also ensured that she chaired the important Cabinet ( later ‘ EA ’ ) Committee on economic strategy and that it contained a majority who supported the economic strategy of herself and the Chancellor .
16 Observers commented that the party 's support appeared to come largely from the Kikuyu , the country 's largest ethnic group , and that it lacked the broad-based support enjoyed by FORD .
17 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 .
18 Sources close to the investigation suggest it has been dormant for some months and that it produced no conclusions one way or the other .
19 But Intel insists that DEC was still showing interest in marketing the follow-on Paragon machine and that it pulled the plug on the deal because it was not satisfied with DEC 's level of commitment .
20 Djilas did not at this stage of his analysis refer to bureaucracy as a class , though he recognized that it had exclusive control of production and distribution and that it expropriated the economic surplus for itself at the expense of the ‘ direct producers ’ .
21 The Webbs objected that the scheme did not distinguish sufficiently between deserving and undeserving and that it included no measures for the prevention of unemployment .
22 A police source said on March 15 that a list of some 200 " godfathers " had been drawn up , and that it included a number of former MPs and Cabinet ministers .
23 Commenting on its figures ( page seven ) , National Semiconductor Corp says it expects fourth quarter gross margins to improve over third quarter margins and that third quarter worldwide orders set a new record , up 40% over last year , and that it entered the fourth quarter with an improved backlog — record OEM orders more than offset seasonal weaknesses in distribution to give record orders for the Americas ; European orders were up while Japanese markets weakened slightly .
24 Always a determined character , he gave up alcohol and smoking the day he pulled on his running shoes , and he quickly found that running long distances was his forte , and that it provided a challenge to fit his temperament .
25 In his summing-up , Mr Justice Caulfield could not have evinced a more robust hostility to the Official Secrets Act , sharing a widely held belief that it was long out of date and an intolerable interference with freedom of speech , and that it provided a justification for prosecutions ranging from the serious to the grotesquely ridiculous .
26 Finally we were told that a team had been formed but that it contained no skilful players , we remained sceptical !
27 It should therefore have been aware of the danger that he would try to cover his liabilities from whatever funds he had access to ( Eagle 's funds ) , but that it made no inquiries about the source of the monies or how he had met his obligations .
28 Now , the issue here is not whether this was ‘ good ’ or ‘ bad ’ , the motive humanitarian or base , but that it had a tremendous impact upon the agriculture of the Third World at least in Latin America , South and South-east Asia .
29 All were careful to insist that ‘ free love ’ was not to be confused with ‘ libertine sexual intercourse ’ , but that it involved a combination of the aesthetic and spiritual sides of the human personality , with a frank and open attitude towards sex .
30 The worse criticism , of course , is not that Carpenter 's Gothic was cheap nor that most of the styles chosen were imitative but that it did no good .
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