Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [noun] [vb past] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | A long meeting between the captains , umpires and officials concluded that it would be in the best interests of all if Greig 's appeal was withdrawn and Kallicharran allowed to continue his innings . |
| 2 | Italy was a major donor among European countries and Greece announced that it would make available US$70,000,000 for agricultural development , which was given high priority . |
| 3 | As for the philosophers , Plato thought that all progress consisted in trying to approximate to a pre-existing model in the timeless world of transcendental forms and Aristotle believed that it was the realization of a form which was already present potentially . |
| 4 | The open-ended commitment to a vastly expensive discretionary scheme for criminal injuries compensation , sanctioned by statute in 1988 but not yet brought into force at the time of writing , was a particular Treasury bête noire , leading to pressure to cut back on other things if Ministers maintained that it was politically unacceptable to curtail the cost . |
| 5 | D'Hazeville 's was described in The Saturday Review as ‘ tame and commonplace ’ , although the assessors and Burn thought that it had sufficient merits to be placed fourth on their War Department lists . |
| 6 | Twice as many men as women felt that it should be possible to save more out of the housekeeping allowance . |