Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] that it [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Griffiths LJ explained in Lion Laboratories Ltd v Evans " I believe that the so-called iniquity rule evolved because in most cases where the facts justified a publication in breach of confidence the plaintiff had behaved so disgracefully or criminally that it was judged in the public interest that his behaviour should be exposed " and , as he aptly stated , " there is a world of difference between what is in the public interest and what is of interest to the public " . |
| 2 | Practically a tennis dress , Flavia noted with approval , having no idea who had made it , nor indeed that it was made , nor how much it must have cost . |
| 3 | And before that it was known as . |
| 4 | The surpising thing is not that this is happening now , but rather that it was staved off for so long . |
| 5 | Chicherin believed not only that serfdom was immoral but also that it was acting as a brake on the economy , that it could not be justified as a bastion against pauperism , and finally — a somewhat unusual argument — that it entailed the improper transference to the gentry of responsibilities which ought to be exercised by the state . |
| 6 | He was so handsome , so present — it was a warmth and vitality that only his immense rage had masked , making her lash out in self-defence , but now that it was turned to a kind of gentle humour , and — she had to admit it — a single-minded interest in her she found him dangerously attractive . |
| 7 | She had n't thought she could stomach anything , but now that it was placed in front of her … |