Example sentences of "that [noun sg] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He was aware of only one pay-out to a salmon farm , and he was not sure if that money had come from the emergency fund . |
| 2 | Yes it should , but only if South Africa holds up its hand and admits that money did find its way into certain bank accounts and that the game in South Africa has been awash with money for many years . |
| 3 | He reiterated , with immense care and deliberation , why it was that Sien had come to mean so much to him . |
| 4 | That stubbornness had got him through the last four years , but he had finally had to admit that walking out on his wife had been the biggest mistake of his life . |
| 5 | We can conjecture that some of the slaves had bought themselves to serfdom ; that penury had compelled the free to sell their freedom for bread . |
| 6 | That look had caused her blood to tingle ! |
| 7 | erm the normal disciplines that the County Council applied on income headings is that if income varies for reasons of er conditions for example and this is in a way akin to that , then the committee normally has to find these erm er the additional resources to cover tha that income erm I have had long discussions with John on this and th the point that he was putting there was er demonstrating that income had followed the amount of work perhaps has not fallen and the below the line item is a recognition in the part of that argument i in a sense for fifty-fifty between below the line reaching seven thousand erm and we 've identified savings and other heads for example the staff advertising example where reduction in turnover , there 's no effective service saving there , so these such things can go towards meeting this income conditions . |
| 8 | Mario , however , had a contract with Chapman and that contract had stipulated , as at Mario 's insistence it always did , that he was to be the team 's Number One driver . |
| 9 | Twelve years back that contract had expired and he had set up his own Company , but that venture had failed after only three years . |
| 10 | The only way to reverse the situation was by force , and the failure of the Woodvilles ' efforts in that direction had demonstrated that no one wanted to risk a slide into civil war . |
| 11 | The only way to reverse the situation was by force , and the failure of the Woodvilles ' efforts in that direction had demonstrated that no one wanted to risk a slide into civil war . |
| 12 | Nora had been naughty , much naughtier than ever before , but for the life of her Dorothy Fanshawe could n't remember of what that naughtiness had consisted . |
| 13 | That support involved ferrying Chris all over the country for race meetings in his younger days . |
| 14 | Held , dismissing the action , that the statutory framework leading to the grant of planning permission envisaged that a local planning authority would balance the interests of the community against those of individuals ; that where a planning authority had granted consent to the development of an area , the measure of disturbance to individuals had to be considered against the changed character of the neighbourhood and those living close to a public highway affected by that change had to accept the increased volume of traffic in the greater public interest ; and that , accordingly , since as a result of planning permission the two roads now gave access to a commercial dock operating 24 hours a day , the serious disturbance to individuals from the movement of heavy goods vehicles was not an actionable nuisance ( post , pp. 460G–H , 461A–C , H — 462B , C–F ) . |
| 15 | While that struggle tended to centre on financial matters — the government 's commitment to effect reductions in public expenditure in opposition to local authority commitment to the enhancement of public services — what was at issue was the power of local authorities in relation to the power of central government . |
| 16 | ‘ They tell me you only get that very strong black espresso coffee — not even cappuccino — and the cups are only half full , ’ Mervyn persisted , so that Ianthe had to protest that she was n't going to Rome only to eat and drink . |
| 17 | Held , allowing the application , that since section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 made provision for persons arrested for breaking bail conditions , or on the likelihood of their so doing , to be brought before a single justice , it was an enactment falling within the exception contemplated by section 121 of the Act of 1980 which , in any event , was limited to summary trials of informations and the hearing of complaints under the civil jurisdiction ; that Parliament had intended by section 7(4) to create a simple and expeditious procedure whereby a justice was required , before forming an opinion under section 7(5) , to conduct no more than an informal inquiry , hearing the arresting officer 's grounds for belief that the person had broken or might break his bail conditions and allowing that person to respond , but without the giving of evidence on oath or cross-examination ; and that , since the provisions of the Act of 1980 relating to the adjournment of proceedings before magistrates ' courts did not apply , there was no power in the justice to adjourn proceedings under section 7(5) ( post , pp. 24A , G — 25B , C–G , 26B , E–F , H — 27A , G–H ) . |
| 18 | Le Monde of Oct. 5 , 1989 , reported that Parliament had approved a law allowing the establishment of local private television stations and thereby bringing to an end the state broadcasting monopoly . |
| 19 | He told Taylor , who appeared in the dock wearing a dark suit with a small teddy bear mascot on the breast pocket , that Parliament had laid down a maximum sentence of 10 years for an appropriate case and to deter those who took the law into their own hands . |
| 20 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that there was nothing in the policy of the Insolvency Act 1986 that indicated that Parliament intended to give the words ‘ carried on business ’ in section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) of that Act a meaning different from that which they had been held to bear in section 4(1) ( d ) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 ; that a debtor did not cease to carry on business for the purposes of section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) until all the trading debts of the business had been paid ; and that , accordingly , the registrar had been right in holding that since the tax liability had not been discharged the debtor was still carrying on business and that he had jurisdiction to make the bankruptcy order ( post , pp. 122B–E , H — 123A ) . |
| 21 | It appears from these general observations , and from the detailed provisions of the Act of 1986 , that Parliament intended to promote two purposes relevant to receivers appointed by debenture holders . |
| 22 | The courts will , however , have some regard for such conventions presuming that Parliament intended to comply with its moral obligations and bring our law into line with the convention . |
| 23 | The waiters were dressed in velvet knee breeches , silk stockings and tail coats , their heads topped with powdered wigs ( although these were later discarded because , it is said , a passenger complained that powder had dropped into his soup ) . |
| 24 | Gran told her that mum had to go into hospital because she was hysterical ! ! |
| 25 | Still , it was the hangover of that piece of moral cowardice at Lochgair station , along with everything else , that led to me feeling so profoundly awful with myself that evening ( after the train finally did get into Queen Street and I walked back , soaked and somehow no longer hungry , in the rain to the empty flat in Grant Street ) , that mum had to call me there , because I had n't been able to bring myself to phone her and dad … and I still managed to feign sleep and a little shame and a smattering of sorrow and reassure her as best I could that really I was all right , yes of course , not to worry , I was fine , thanks for calling … and so of course after that felt even worse . |
| 26 | Clearly Adalard 's influence was great ( Nithard was not alone in identifying Ermentrude as " Adalard 's niece " rather than as the daughter of Count Odo of Orléans , Adalard 's brother-in-law , though an obvious reason could have been that Odo had died eight years before , perhaps leaving Ermentrude in her uncle 's care ) . |
| 27 | Of course it was not certain either that Zoser had done it or that , if he had done it , he had done it for sectarian reasons . |
| 28 | They had a say there was two or three counters , this man in that part had made the cargo already before they started see . |
| 29 | Had the statements been supplied , the defence could have planned their campaign , prepared a more effective cross-examination , been ready to object , if challenging admissibility , and been prepared to let the judge and jury see the statements if that course appeared to offer prospects of success . |
| 30 | I confess that I thought that that case had arisen a little before that speech . |