Example sentences of "[conj] [that] it [was/were] not a " in BNC.

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1 Rejected by Tawney ( 1912 ) , this has now been fully vindicated by Dr Kerridge , who has shown that the security conferred on the copyholder by the law was not inferior to that enjoyed by the freeholder , and that it was not a subject for dispute in the courts during the sixteenth century ‘ for the simple reason that the question had been settled long before ’ .
2 The basic differences between them in respect of their value to architectural study is that Ostia was occupied and developed over a much longer period , from the fourth century B.C. to the third century A.D. , and that it was not a provincial city but the port of Rome and , as such , became more important , as is evidenced by its buildings .
3 ‘ We have always believed that Abu-Baker was assassinated and that it was not an ordinary robbery , ’ he said .
4 of the directors must be its nationals , and ( b ) that the legal and beneficial owners , charterers , managers , operators , shareholders or directors must be resident and domiciled in the member state , but that it was not a breach of Community law for a member state to stipulate as a condition for the registration of a fishing vessel in its national register that the vessel must be managed and its operations directed and controlled from within the member state ( post , pp. 340H — 341B , E , 343B–D ) .
5 The Court of Appeal rejected the Council 's defence on the ground , not that the ticket changed hands too late , but that it was not a contractual document ; for no reasonable person would expect to find contractual terms in a document which was no more than a receipt for him to prove that he had paid and which in many instances ( i.e. in the absence of the attendant ) would not change hands until long after the contract was made .
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