Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [conj] it [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( vi ) If the court should hold that a right to sue in libel must be allowed to a local government authority , then , in the alternative , this court should , in extending the law of libel to permit actions by a local authority , impose particular restrictions or limitations upon the cause of action , namely that a local authority could only sue for libel upon proof of special damage ; and that the council would be required to prove both the falsity of the allegation and that it was published maliciously . |
| 2 | It arose from a groundswell of opinion in the EC that the internal market would be a success only where it had the support of both ‘ sides ’ of industry and if it was designed to benefit every citizen of the Community . |
| 3 | Of the 10 cardinals , three had refused to sign the verdict , Francesco demanded a pardon and when it was refused he persuaded his brother to make life ‘ imprisonment ’ that of house arrest in the home of a sympathetic bishop . |
| 4 | He also rejected arguments that the transcript did not fall within the term ‘ documents ’ in s 2(3) of the 1987 Act and that it was protected from disclosure by legal professional privilege . |
| 5 | The specification called for a fast vehicle with a low silhouette and when it was built , it proved to be the fastest tank in the British Army . |
| 6 | Boris Becker recently expressed the view that there was too much money in tennis and that it was ruining the game — a view of course that it is much easier to make objectively once you have £5m in the bank . |
| 7 | The whole point is , Chairman , the planning officers , both at the site inspection and when it was discussed er er er they were under no misapprehension that it was the height of the building which had been objected to actually . |
| 8 | In hospital they told me they were going to do a routine examination and that it was going to be a twist in the scrotum or it was going to be a tumour ; and it might be benign or it might be malignant . |
| 9 | The Health Authorities at this time maintained that the maximum aluminium level had been 109 mg/litre , but the Ahrenses still had their jar of water and when it was analysed at Somerset Council 's laboratories it was found to contain 620 mg/litre , 3,000 times the EC limit . |
| 10 | I think all it , well , the only things that are different with the continuous pro er , surveys that we 've got , from ad-hoc surveys is actually the content of the questionnaire and when it was analysed , really . |
| 11 | This has led to speculations that life may have originated in the depths of space and that it was brought to the Earth by meteorites . |
| 12 | She made a harbour with a jetty and when it was finished to her satisfaction , got up to find pieces of stick to float in it . |
| 13 | It is interesting that JTR noticed J. McL 's graveyard on that wild shore road and that it was defaced . |
| 14 | He added that it was believed an anti-aircraft gun was in the locality and that it was fired recently . |
| 15 | Commercial contractual relations had become valuable rights which could be regarded as entitled to at least some of the protection given by the law to property and while it was argued that the plaintiff ought to be satisfied with his action for breach of contract against the party induced , the latter might be incapable of paying all the damages . |
| 16 | The consignment was brought over in the same way and after it was left in a lay-by in Lymm , Cheshire , Customs officers pounced when Scott arrived to collect it . |
| 17 | What we did at that point , was to get together a task force of people to examine the idea and where it was going : the people doing the work and the people who were likely to understand the most likely market — put them together in one room to reason their way through to the fact that we really ought to drop the project . |