Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [be] [vb pp] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it had not been realised that we process speech as much by our expectations as by our sensations : it is easy for us to hear the same acoustic signal as ‘ It 's easy to recognise speech ’ or ‘ It 's easy to wreck a nice beach ’ according to context . |
| 2 | It had not been shown that the Special Commissioner had misdirected himself or that he had erred in law or that he had arrived at a wholly insupportable conclusion . |
| 3 | The grounds of appeal were , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the justices had exercised their discretion to award costs on the wrong principles as it had not been shown that the local authority had acted in bad faith or unreasonable in the performance of its statutory duties or had acted unreasonably in the conduct of the proceedings before the court ; ( 2 ) there were no circumstances which justified the making of the costs order ; ( 3 ) the justice should have found that there were good reasons for the local authority to be concerned about the father 's ability to care for the children , the local authority was not bound to adopt the view of the guardian ad litem and the local authority had communicated the decision not to oppose the father 's application within a reasonable time on receiving the report of the guardian ad litem ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to assume that the change in the view of the local authority amounted to an admission that the views of the local authority had been wrong all the time . |
| 4 | The appeal was decided on the comparatively short point that although undue influence had been exercised by the husband upon the wife , it had not been shown that the transactions were to the manifest disadvantage of the wife , in which circumstances the court held that the wife could not be relieved from the effect of the charges on her home . |
| 5 | The court refused to issue an order of mandamus on the ground that it had not been established that such a blanket directive had been issued and that it was within his rights to deploy his forces as he wished . |
| 6 | On appeal by the defendants , the Court of Appeal allowed the appeal and discharged the injunction , holding that as a matter of domestic law there was no justification for extending to local authorities bringing proceedings under section 222 of the Act of 1972 to enforce the criminal law the privilege enjoyed by the Crown alone of being granted an interlocutory injunction without giving a cross-undertaking as to damages ; and that since it had not been established that the defendants had no defence under article 30 of the E.E.C . |
| 7 | The allegations were serious , and it had not been supposed that the children would be allowed home with no further action . |
| 8 | It had previously been decided that the first landing should be away on the metalled runway of Duxford or Cambridge . |
| 9 | It had previously been estimated that £40,000 could be saved ; the Committee decided that this was unrealistic , and reduced the estimate to £25,000 . |
| 10 | It had previously been estimated that the programme would allow 100,000-170,000 people who had arrived in Spain before May 15 , 1991 , to regularize their status . |
| 11 | It had previously been considered that the feature of the second oral tentacle pore arising outside the mouth was distinctive enough to warrant raising the Ophiurinae to familial rank ( Paterson , 1980 ) . |
| 12 | It had previously been thought that pollution posed the greatest threat to inshore marine mammals . |
| 13 | It had already been announced that the East German SPD would merge with its West German counterpart in September , and that the two Christian Democratic Unions would merge in October . |
| 14 | It had already been arranged that Eric and Daphne Lovell would drive Rose to her destination before going on to their own and would pick her up later for the return trip . |
| 15 | It had already been decided that Hayling was to remain as chief executive , and everyone who had been doing a specific job for the company was invited to carry on . |
| 16 | She laughed him off , saying he was becoming obsessed with that MP and it had already been noticed that his column carried far too many stories about him . |
| 17 | Well we do or we 'd , it had already been envisaged that er the jaguars would run out at er roughly that time . |
| 18 | It had also been hoped that midfielder Michael Thomas would play this week but the former Arsenal midfielder has suffered a reaction to his Achilles problem and his comeback has been delayed . |
| 19 | It had also been said that his father had been employed there . |
| 20 | It had also been reported that 37 prisoners in the Central Prison at Kenitra ( 50 km from Rabat ) took part in a 24-hour hunger strike on Dec. 10 , 1988 , in protest against prison conditions and alleged repression of prisoners ' families . |
| 21 | She was glad to get away for a change of scene , as it had just been confirmed that Steve had been killed , and her place was taken by Nancy , a tall , dark Scots girl , who fitted into the Met team very well . |
| 22 | It had just been decided that it was not possible that the coffin in a horizontal position could be manoeuvred around the many angles of doors and walls between there and the front door . |
| 23 | Jenjin told Rostov that Burun had broken Nogai 's wrist during an argument five days earlier , and that it had just been suggested that if his plan went ahead he might get the other one broken as well . |
| 24 | It had never been intended that the flimsy structure should support such a weighty assembly , so with a creaking and a cracking and much shouting and swearing down it went in a flurry of legs and arms and broken planks and red Australian dust . |
| 25 | It had never been admitted that Michael Holly , small-time engineer , was anything other than a falsely-accused business representative on lawful business in the Soviet capital . |
| 26 | The Lord President referred to the fact that it had never been suggested that trustees were not assessable under the old Schedule A or under Schedule B or Schedule D. |
| 27 | It had long been believed that he who held the Tower , held London in the palm of his hand . |
| 28 | It had long been understood that , while the refugee camps of the East Bank had remained pro-PLO ever since the events of 1970–1 , the wealthier Palestinians had incorporated themselves into the Jordanian establishment . |
| 29 | Despite this virtual unanimity of opinion 104 it had long been accepted that there were certain exceptions to the rule . |
| 30 | In that context it had long been accepted that the settlement of individual claims might be incorporated into an overall package . |