Example sentences of "that [det] [was/were] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was glad to note that that was endorsed by the chairman of the Audit Commission this morning . |
| 2 | In addition the similarities in their decorative and illustrational work suggest that each was stimulated by the other 's ideas . |
| 3 | Meiko Scientific Plc , Bristol has been getting a bit of stick in the US press following its sale of one of its massively parallel systems to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a $15m agreement : complainants say the order should have gone to a US firm and not to a UK one ; Meiko repudiates ‘ the damaging impressions ’ created in a New York Times story on the order , saying that it was consistent with US national security policies and procedures with support provided by cleared US citizens ; it bridles at the suggestion that the machine is unproven , pointing to over 400 installations , and says the Israeli transaction was in compliance with both US and British export regulations and that this was confirmed by the British Embassy in Washington . |
| 4 | The formulation of a course for validation placed a greater burden on college resources than offering a centrally devised course but he felt that this was offset by the ability which a college now had to react quickly and flexibly to meet local demands . |
| 5 | To explain the nature of legal change Stone offers a model that suggests first , that clients revealed the gap between current values and the law ; second , that this was followed by the attempt of lawyers and judges to narrow the gap , often by inventing legal fictions or effectively changing the law by judicial re-interpretation ( the changing definition of legal cruelty provides one example of this ) ; and third , that all this culminated eventually in legal change when the ‘ level of duplicity and hypocrisy became intolerable to law lords and legislators alike ’ ( pp. 19–20 ) . |
| 6 | We are therefore left with the unsatisfactory position that the market maker may well be harmed but be the very person who is unable to prove that this was caused by the inside trade . |
| 7 | It was claimed that this was caused by the greater number of convictions , and the speed at which the increase took place , rather than from any perceptible changes in sentencing practice . |
| 8 | The Secretary of State , Mr Brooke , maintains that this was approved by the museums . |
| 9 | Middlebrook said that the campaign amounted to a direct and therefore unlawful interference with its contracts of supply with supermarkets , but the Court of Appeal seems to have thought that this was overridden by the right of freedom of speech . |
| 10 | Interestingly , however , the SD went on to note that after unusually large audiences , prompted by heavy propaganda , had attended the film at the outset , the numbers rapidly dropped off , and there were comments that the film would bring nothing new , that people had had enough of the Jewish theme , and that many were nauseated by the depiction of ritual slaughter scenes — some fainting , and others leaving the cinema in disgust . |