Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [vb past] that it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For years the Department of Transport argued that it was not its role to promote cycling , but recently the men from the ministry seem to have had a change of heart . |
| 2 | The Ministry of Health insisted that it was not the business of maternity centres to offer family-planning advice , and the new Labour government in 1924 specifically forbade welfare centres from disseminating it . |
| 3 | Yet she asked again , and this time , though his mind was stewed in bliss , the tiny voice of reason murmured that it was n't his lady who was asking the question at all , but the woman on the telephone . |
| 4 | Ltd [ 1944 ] 2 All ER 293 ( CA ) the Court of Appeal decided that it was not bound by a previous decision of that court , if satisfied that the decision in question was reached per incuriam . |
| 5 | The Court of Appeal stated that it was impermissible to make a finding of 100% contributory negligence , as the Act states that the plaintiff must suffer damage partly as a result of his own fault and partly as a result of the defendant 's fault . |
| 6 | Indeed in Cehave NV v Bremer Handelgesellschaft [ 1976 ] QB 44 , the Court of Appeal considered that it was the intention to re-state the pre-existing sales law and that this intention translated itself into a canon of statutory interpretation . |
| 7 | The European Court of Justice held that it was not relevant whether the ownership of the undertaking was transferred . |