Example sentences of "that it [vb past] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But London Ambulance Service categorically denied that it had plans to cut off phone lines , saying that it had only authorised one disconnection at Park Royal Ambulance Station , West London , because crews had locked themselves in . |
| 2 | And eventually you 'd notice that it had petals around the horizon . |
| 3 | Also , we were informed by a local that it had avgas . |
| 4 | Documents discovered in a raid on offices of the Salsabeel computer company in Heliopolis showed , he said , that the group was financed from abroad and that it had links with Islamic investment companies in Egypt and the Moslem Brotherhood . |
| 5 | Now that the contents of everything have to be described in great detail on the packaging , they duly told the French people that it contained preservatives . |
| 6 | Towards the end of the novel , the narrator records : " What Antoine needed at that time was to find someone capable of proving to him that his past was worthy of being admired , that it contained elements worthy of gratitude and friendship . " |
| 7 | For a moment I felt an instinctive resentment , but remembering that it contained things ‘ for me ’ , I picked it up . |
| 8 | ( 3 ) If the party tendering the document did what was reasonably sufficient to give the other party notice of the conditions , and if the other party knew that there was writing or printing on the document , but did not know that it contained conditions , then the conditions will become the terms of the contract between them . |
| 9 | When chemists vapourised potassium nitrate and trapped it an argon matrix , however , they were surprised to discover that it contained molecules with the chemical formula KNO 3 . |
| 10 | The machine is being pitched at banks and telephone companies ; it also said it plans to make available ruggedised versions of the 340 and 350 systems and servers ; and that it cut prices 17% on the Powerserver 950 , and 14% on the 400Mb disk drive for the RS/6000 . |
| 11 | Erm I , I think that erm the er concern that erm we all have relating to local government view erm is er that it caused changes in |
| 12 | The danger with this was that it caused believers to look to their own faith rather than to Christ alone for the assurance of their salvation . |
| 13 | Thames exercised the clause by hiring one piece of plant for £40,000 less than the contractor had paid — and found that it eased tensions between them . |
| 14 | This Act was important in that it eased restrictions in the field of public service transport , but critics felt that it would weaken the protection necessary for essentially unprofitable bus routes , mainly those in rural areas . |
| 15 | Inveterate trafficker in traffic systems Peek Plc told its annual meeting yesterday that it saw signs of a trading upturn in March : ‘ Although trading conditions in the first two months of the current year continued to be difficult , we have seen signs of improvement in March — there is currently a significant amount of enquiry and bidding activity and it is expected that this will translate into firm orders , ’ chairman Ken Maud said . |
| 16 | With regard to what he said about Stratford school , if he had taken rather more interest in the school when it was in the control of Newham and insisted on the school keeping up to reasonable standards and if he now put pressure on Newham LEA to ensure that it raised standards in schools , he would be doing more for his constituents than he is by his performance today . |
| 17 | But there was a conflicting theory that it ate leaves . |
| 18 | Regretfully she decided not to wash her hair ; it was so thick that it took ages to dry and she was sure his patience would n't last that long ; also she had to get to work . |
| 19 | That it took Hibs 37 minutes to record their first shot at Ally Maxwell vouches for the minuscule depth of their ambition and explains why they were , in the end , beaten hollow . |
| 20 | I imagine it might be said that it was too insistent on formal academic instruction , that it took things like examinations very seriously and prided itself on its academic record ; yet in fact the education it gave was surprisingly wide and varied … |
| 21 | He says that it took officers away from other duties . |
| 22 | And it 's no exaggeration to say that it took years of sifting through the wreckage of myself to find a woman I could begin to take some pride in again . |
| 23 | Johanna was so popular that it took police a day to talk to all her friends after she was reported missing . |
| 24 | No pay was given for Bank Holidays , with the result that it took weeks to recover from the loss of income . |
| 25 | The Bank of England 's new accounts show that it made provisions of £115m ( $100m ) in 1991–92 , against losses incurred in propping up small banks after the collapse of BCCI . |
| 26 | Critics of this process of commercialization often pointed to the way that it made journalists less concerned with ‘ the old style of principled journalism ’ . |
| 27 | She had even vaguely registered that it sold flowers , but it had never occurred to her to regard it as a serious rival . |
| 28 | Hachette says that Montana was a passive minority investor about which it knew no more than it had been told by Montana 's Swiss lawyer : that it represented investors from several Gulf countries . |
| 29 | The shock was so great that it brought tears to his eyes , and when he 'd turned off the tap and dried his hand , the tears did n't stop . |
| 30 | There had been Lewis , the guy who was down on cutlery and condiments , and much earlier a bloke called Evans , who maintained that Old Mother Walsh was really a man in drag and that it behoved members of the Church ‘ to wear the clothes of the other kind ’ . |