Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb past] that [pron] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of their first agency contact , the majority reported that they were using between two ‘ bags ’ ( about 10 ) and a gram of heroin ( 60 ) per day , the typical daily quantity reported being 0.25–0.5 gram ( between 20 and 35 ) . |
| 2 | The Shield insisted that there was enough conviction and enthusiasm among women to carry further legislation , despite the blatant obstructionism from men at the Home Office and in Parliament . |
| 3 | Three of the instances of maladministration related to the licensing of the Chesh ire-based savings group in 1984/85 , where the Ombudsman felt that there was enough evidence to have ordered Barlow Clowes to cease op erations . |
| 4 | The evidence at the trial proved that he was in fact a highwayman . |
| 5 | Although the NUM executive had decided to recommend a ballot on industrial action , the board thought that there was no need to panic and no prospect of an immediate ballot while local negotiations continued . |
| 6 | The newspaper proprietors argued that the newsboys were not ‘ employees ’ within the relevant legislation ; the Board claimed that they were . |
| 7 | She was now so convinced that the technique worked that she was quite able to deal with other situations on her own , using precisely the same methods . |
| 8 | Its survey of the field showed that there were some 13,000 students taking these courses , mostly on a full-time basis , in 176 institutions including art colleges , polytechnics and other further education establishments . |
| 9 | Secondly , and more importantly , the judgment on the ban illustrated that there was a specific piece of legislation , and legislation directly concerned with libraries , which could , in legal terms at lest , halt censorship in libraries . |
| 10 | But the reality was that the referendum showed that there was no majority , and the people of Wales recognised that it would be in the best interests of their country and the United Kingdom to sustain the present arrangements . |
| 11 | The clerk argued that it was not a " competent application " . |
| 12 | I mean let me mention one — the chairman mentioned that I was a rash enough to write a book on the evolution of sex . |
| 13 | The taxpayer contended that it was necessary , before the Revenue could succeed , for the Revenue to show that there was an element of bounty . |
| 14 | Commenting on the assassination in its editorial of May 21 The Hindu stated that it was " difficult to assert at this stage if … |
| 15 | The story went that he was a dealer in jewels and furs who had been discharged from the army after Dunkirk . |
| 16 | When task allocation was a common way of organising care , a nurse did not usually progress from one task to another until the sister judged that she was competent to do so . |
| 17 | A statement issued prior to the march claimed that there was support from the Nationalist Party , the RLP , the NILP , the NDP , the CSJ , the Irish National Foresters , the GAA , the AOH , the Derry Housing Action Committee ( DHAC ) and the Wolfe Tone Societies . |
| 18 | Now moving on a little bit further , I know the talk said that I was only going up to er to , but I 'm just going a little bit further . |
| 19 | The applicant thought that it was ultra vires and refused to pay the increased rent . |
| 20 | In our Lord 's parable of the lost sheep ( Luke 15:3–6 ) we see that it was as a consequence of counting his sheep into the fold each night that the shepherd discovered that he was one short . |
| 21 | The shepherd answered that they were , and the emperor cried ‘ Now I am going to have to sleep for another hundred years ! ’ |
| 22 | In this way young men of the neighbourhood discovered that they were no longer boys . |
| 23 | Er the research found that there were three hundred or so students who registered with the health service but did n't re-register or did n't leave . |
| 24 | So I gingerly walked down and crept into the car realized that I was the one that had caused all that |
| 25 | The programme claimed that there were 100 artistes in the cast . |
| 26 | The Court of Appeal ( Civil Division ) in Singh v Rathour [ 1988 ] 1 WLR 422 distinguished Peart and Whittaker v Campbell on the grounds that the defendant knew that he was using a minibus for a purpose which exceeded the limitation under which he had borrowed it . |
| 27 | The defendant thought that he was being attacked when he acted , and it was held that self-defence was available to him . |
| 28 | ( a ) That one night in June 1986 at ‘ Illusions ’ night-club the defendant said that he was having an affair with Paulette and that , if Zaidie ever laid a hand on her , he would kill him . |
| 29 | On entering the house , the defendant said that he was unhappy at Paulette 's having married Zaidie and that he was going to obtain a copy of the marriage certificate and would shoot Paulette if she had married while she was still talking to the defendant ( the date of the marriage was actually 10 December 1986 ) . |
| 30 | In his defence , the defendant claimed that it was T who had approached him and that he had not initiated the agreement . |