Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] that it " in BNC.

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1 What is denied by the defendant and what is the issue of trial is that they deny that they were ever instructed by Mr er to save such a measure or that it would have been appropriate to serve them or that at any stage Mr ever asked to be advised on any way open to him to get out of the contract er as alleged .
2 We really believe in what we 're doing , we believe it has a meaning other than making money or that it 's a cool showbiz job .
3 I would stake my life on it , ’ will not be able to claim either that it was a mere trader 's puff or that it was a mere statement of opinion .
4 The Bishop quotes , with approval , G. Bennett on spider webs : It is impossible for one who has watched the work for many hours to have any doubt that neither the present spiders of this species nor their ancestors were ever the architects of the web or that it could conceivably have been produced step by step through random variation ; it would be as absurd to suppose that the intricate and exact proportions of the Parthenon were produced by piling together bits of marble .
5 The project was approved at ministerial level because it had been decided that the contract either did not significantly enhance Iraq 's military capability or that it had been signed before December , 1984 .
6 Our reason for driving on the right in America and on the left in Britain is just our expectation that this is what others will do , coupled with our further belief that it is more important that there be a common rule than that it be one rather than the other .
7 In Grace Abounding nothing is said about his life as a soldier except that it was once preserved by the mercy of God when another man took his place as sentinel during a siege and was killed by a musket bullet .
8 There is evidence to suggest that the operation of vagotomy changes the ratio of primary and secondary bile acids found in the gall bladder and that it is the secondary bile acids that are carcinogenic .
9 From Steve and Paul 's point of view , I reckon they thought he was a real card and that it would be a big laugh having him around .
10 ( vi ) If the court should hold that a right to sue in libel must be allowed to a local government authority , then , in the alternative , this court should , in extending the law of libel to permit actions by a local authority , impose particular restrictions or limitations upon the cause of action , namely that a local authority could only sue for libel upon proof of special damage ; and that the council would be required to prove both the falsity of the allegation and that it was published maliciously .
11 And so it might , provided it was only a passing mention and that it contributed properly to the pattern of the book .
12 Suppose you think abortion is murder and that it makes no difference whether the pregnancy is the result of rape .
13 There had been Lewis , the guy who was down on cutlery and condiments , and much earlier a bloke called Evans , who maintained that Old Mother Walsh was really a man in drag and that it behoved members of the Church ‘ to wear the clothes of the other kind ’ .
14 The postal workers ' trade union publicly announced that it had decided to forbid its members to handle a particular class of mail and that it was aware that the action would be a breach of the law .
15 I am confident Scottish Nuclear has a long-term future and that it will continue to be one of Scotland 's best engineering companies .
16 It recommends that it should be taken over by the academy because of its focus on basic research and that it should at the same time establish links with a university .
17 The Hegelian model of the coexistence of presence which allows the possibility of the ‘ essential section ’ is incompatible with this description , but Althusser continues to assume nevertheless that there is a totality and that it has ‘ the structure of an organic hierarchised whole ’ ( 98 ) .
18 In evidence I said that allergen extracts should be standardised and prepared according to good manufacturing practice and that it was absurd to inject patients with extracts of gas and petrol fumes .
19 Their professed need for a load valley in summer to permit overhaul could not be reconciled with the common observation that their capacity problems were not at their worst then ; it could not both be true that the differential charge would have no effect and that it would have so large an effect in cutting consumption the Boards would make losses .
20 Study of the operation of the valve shows that the servo air will completely seal the valve without the aid of the spring and that it and the diaphragm plate can therefore be eliminated together with the turned spigot inside the cover .
21 Study of the operation of the valve shows that the servo air will completely seal the valve without the aid of the spring and that it and the diaphragm plate can therefore be eliminated together with the turned spigot inside the cover .
22 The Angel of Death was closer now , shadowed in the half-light from the church , the two marble attendants on guard at the mausoleum 's bronze doors , everything as usual except that tonight , I could have sworn that there was a third figure and that it moved out of the darkness towards me .
23 If you 've still got that cough and that it 's just
24 We believe that these findings suggest that osmolality is the key determinant of water absorption in both normal and secreting intestine and that it seems to be of particular importance in the secretory state .
25 We may be handling a horse and get a feeling that we are in tune with the horse and that it is accepting and even anticipating whatever we want to do : we are in rapport with the horse , and are communicating with the horse but in a way that is not through the other senses .
26 That may mean no more than that such a scheme may do more good than harm and that it would do more good than the obvious alternatives .
27 However , Lea points out that for writers like Gilroy racism is embodied in the conscious policies and practices of the police as an institution and that it is difficult to argue that the police are de-politicising black struggles , and criminalising them , when some of them , such as the Spaghetti House siege , used crime to obtain political funds , and hence the police responded to the event as crime .
28 Er I think the county council recognizes the role of inward investment but that it is a small part of the ec economic growth .
29 As Wildavsky ( 1975 , p. 42 ) states : ‘ It is not so much that traditional budgeting succeeds brilliantly on every criterion but that it does not entirely fail on any one that is responsible for its longevity . ’
30 Hence , as in so many other traditional cultures , the victims of affliction are thus revealed as criminals ; in contrast to the situation in Samuel Butler 's allegorical novel Erewhon , it is not so much that sickness in itself is a crime as that it is a symptom and consequence of criminal activity .
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