Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Sullivan recommended rather that the Shah enter the States through an obscure air force base in either Maine or South Caroline , and best of all at night , . |
| 2 | I realised slowly that the screams were coming from the kitchen . |
| 3 | But one of the most significant developments in inter-union relations was the ‘ Bridlington Agreement ’ passed at the TUC Congress in 1939 , which laid down that no union should attempt to organize workers at any industrial establishment where another union was already represented and negotiated on behalf of the majority of the workers . |
| 4 | The Alberta liquor laws laid down that no minors might drink , but it was not difficult to obtain beer or liquor , and he had often drunk himself silly . |
| 5 | The system is being introduced in response to the Government 's Citizens ' Charter which laid down that every resident with a problem about a particular public service should have access to a well publicised complaints procedure . |
| 6 | The Northern Ireland ( Emergency Provisions ) Act laid down that a person arrested on suspicion could be held without further formality for up to twenty-one days . |
| 7 | The clauses under which Edward renounced his claim to the French throne and John renounced sovereignty over Aquitaine were excised from the treaty and embodied in a separate document which laid down that the renunciations were to be carried out no later than 1 November 1361 , and were to be conditional upon the transfers of territory agreed in the treaty being implemented by June 1361 . |
| 8 | The reform of the legal system ( 1864 ) was explicitly modelled on advanced western practice , and laid down that the law was to be overseen by an independent judiciary . |
| 9 | His Lambeth Constitutions of 1281 laid down that the priest should instruct the people in the basics of the faith and preach at least four time a year in English . |
| 10 | Khotan sat down heavily on the bench beside Burun , and Rostov realised suddenly that the Kha-Khan 's son was drunk . |
| 11 | The Official Unionists within the UUUC argued stubbornly that the most effective place from which to influence events at Westminster was inside the Conservative Party . |
| 12 | You got so that the first thing you did every day was to go into the kitchen and say good morning to it . |
| 13 | which Arthur plunged so that the thump and spray |
| 14 | The meeting agreed only that no decisions would be taken until Dominion government opinion had been consulted . |
| 15 | ( 2 ) Granting the application , that the central objective of the category of public interest immunity involved was the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force ; that therefore , in view of the public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice of some members of the disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , and of the extensive publicity already attaching to the authority 's documents following B. 's successful appeal , it could not be said that those who had co-operated in the authority 's investigation would regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses would withhold it , if the court were to release the documents to the applicants to enable them to defeat if they could an allegedly corrupt claim in damages ; that the imperative public interest in the case was that the applicants had a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they sought so that the grave allegations which they made , and were the same allegations that had troubled the Court of Appeal sufficiently to allow B. 's appeal , could be properly tested in the courts ; and that , accordingly , B. 's undertaking would be varied to allow him to hand over to the applicants those of the authority 's documents which were incorporated in his appeal bundle , the applicants for their part undertaking to use those documents only for the purposes of defending the present libel proceedings pursued against them ( post , pp. 927G — 928A , B ) . |
| 16 | She realized suddenly that the ground on which she stood , barefooted , was stone hard beneath grass barely damp with early dew . |
| 17 | Jotan moved so that the tip of the sword was under the dwarf 's chin , forcing it up . |
| 18 | The Party Programme , adopted at the same congress , promised only that the Soviet Union would ‘ do what it could ’ to assist socialist-oriented states in the developing world ; and authoritative commentaries made it clear that the USSR preferred the peaceful settlement of regional conflicts rather than the ‘ export of revolution ’ . |
| 19 | Pollution ‘ experts ’ joked merrily that the only drawback of the clean air policy was that , with less sulphur pollution , mildew had also returned . |
| 20 | Payment of costs and expenses of ( i ) lawyers , legal and paralegal advisors and other necessary professional advisers in a destination country , ( ii ) the obtaining of medical , professional or photographic evidence and reports and of documentation required in order to obtain legal representation ( iii ) notarial , certification and legalisation fees , transportation costs to obtain documents and translation costs , incurred by the Insured Person up to a maximum of £5,000 in total in pursuit of compensation and damages arising from or out of injury to or illness or death of the Insured Person occurring during the period of insurance PROVIDED always that the Insurers shall have complete control over any legal proceedings and the selection , appointment and control of lawyers . |
| 21 | THE shadow Chancellor , Mr John Smith , promised yesterday that the party 's credit controls policy would not be designed to cover everything and ‘ hermetically seal the economy . ’ |
| 22 | HOWARD WILKINSON promised yesterday that the New Year will bring in the old Leeds United . |
| 23 | While the region has traditionally written off 5 per cent of rates or poll tax bad debts — this year it could be £15 million — the finance director , Tony Taylor , promised yesterday that the council would vigorously pursue non-payers for the rest of the cash . |
| 24 | Bob Sclater , Orkney 's harbours director , reported yesterday that the ship had listed 20 degrees to starboard and had shifted closer to the cliff face . |
| 25 | The father agrees to let the mother have the child , provided the child herself wishes to come and provided also that the mother satisfies the father that she will be well looked after and happy . |
| 26 | Where a publisher does not provide free reprints , the Library will purchase 50 reprints for staff use , provided funds are available , and provided also that the reprint orders are accompanied by an official Library order form . |
| 27 | It transpired later that the social workers were all under instruction to have identification . |
| 28 | He found also that the incidence of relative clauses was a very clear indicator of development , Increasing four times from the youngest group of writers in his sample to the eldest . |
| 29 | v. McAlpine , where vibrations from pile-driving caused structural damage to a large hotel on adjoining land , Astbury J. held it to be a bad plea that the vibrations had this effect only because the hotel was so old as to be abnormally unstable ; but he found also that the evidence did not establish that it was in such a condition . |
| 30 | Quickly and inexorably , however , the evidence built up that the man in military hospital at Buchanan Castle , Drymen , was not Rudolf Hess . |