Example sentences of "[coord] that it [was/were] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The FMLN denied government claims that it was refusing to withdraw its forces to appointed territories , that it had under-reported its arms and troop inventories , or that it was encouraging land occupations and was planning to establish agrarian settlements in a disputed border area with Honduras . |
| 2 | But they do not prove that NICRA was a front for the preparation of such a campaign or that it was reasonable or wise to treat it as such . |
| 3 | Ltd. v. United Dominions Trust Ltd. ( 1988 C.A. ) the buyer had discovered that the car had a leak but did not discover until after the contract the gravity of the leak or that it was incurable . |
| 4 | That is not to say that his power and influence was actually greater than that of the Ostrogothic king Theodoric , nor that it was inevitable that the Franks would permanently eclipse the Burgundians in Gaul . |
| 5 | It rested on the myth that the peasantry were instinctively socialist and that it was possible for Russia to bypass capitalism , moving directly from semi-feudalism to socialism based on the peasant commune . |
| 6 | Soon after the publication of Barro 's studies it was pointed out by Leiderman ( 1980 ) that Barro 's model embodied two important but separate hypotheses — rational expectations and what is called structural neutrality — and that it was possible to test for rational expectations separately , and then , given rational expectations , test for structural neutrality . |
| 7 | The Head of Department accepted that the department had some responsibility for the insalubrious state of the Pottery Hut and that it was possible to do more 3D work , although the problem of group size in this should be recognised in the report . |
| 8 | In their examination of popular culture Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel were worried by the fact that music-hall seemed to belong far more to the professional performers than to the audiences and that it was individual stars who actually seemed to have created the stereotypes and much of the idiom . |
| 9 | They argued that most of girls ' lives were not conducted on the street in any case , and that it was necessary to study them in their homes instead . |
| 10 | Finance Minister Ruth Richardson justified the move on the grounds that the country could no longer afford to fund one of the most comprehensive welfare systems in the world , and that it was necessary to replace it with " a true enterprise society living within its means " . |
| 11 | and , and going , and they went er it went out in , off to er some of these islands off er rocks and that , tour of Malta and that it was superb ! |
| 12 | He said that he thought it wrong to encourage a military spirit , and that it was contrary to the ideals of disarmament . |
| 13 | The Federal Republic of Germany filed an amicus brief arguing that the Convention was exclusive and that it was contrary to its spirit for the United States to circumvent the Convention . |
| 14 | The struggle between the NGC and the PLO leadership was one of several important developments which persuaded the people in the West Bank and Gaza that neither the Arab states nor the PLO were capable of liberating them militarily or diplomatically and that it was pointless to continue to hope for a solution from the outside . |
| 15 | For those reasons , I would declare that it was within the power of the single justice ; indeed , it was her duty on the Friday to complete the proceeding under section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 , and that it was unlawful for her to adjourn the matter to the following Monday , she having no power to do so , and that the decision of the justices on the Monday was correct . |
| 16 | " We then proceeded with the examination of the boys in the presence of the Mayor and several Ladies and Gentlemen of the Town , Mr. Prescott [ sic ] the Rector of Stockport being the Examiner ; and considering the recent re-endowment and establishment of the School , and that many of the children when first admitted were unable to read , and the majority very backward in their learning , we have much pleasure in reporting that the result of this first public examination was very satisfactory and that it was apparent that the Master and Usher had faithfully discharged their duties . " |
| 17 | Burun was amazed to see that the hilt of the weapon was almost entirely unguarded and that it was long enough to permit a double-handed grip . |
| 18 | Lilley stated that there was a clear shift in the balance between state provision and self provision and that it was right to shift this balance towards self provision as the wealth of the nation increased . |
| 19 | One possibility is that he took the view in this case that the trust inhered in specific property , and that it was payable by the person who had that property , so far as the other conditions for a valid trust were also met . |
| 20 | However , on the facts of Lim 's case the House of Lords upheld the decision of the lower courts that it would be possible to obtain the required facilities outside the National Health Service and that it was reasonable to incur that expense . |
| 21 | You are entitled to be paid for the proportion of the work that you have done and that it was reasonable for you to do . |
| 22 | I wish we were having a picnic , and that it was hot , and I do indeed wish that we were all together ; though even if I were to hold the whole world against my chest , it would probably save us from very little . |
| 23 | He explained that Maidstone was ill and that it was essential to get inside the apartment to see how he was . |
| 24 | The Lord Chief Justice had said then that it would be wrong for it to appear that the proposals had the backing of the judges or that they had had any hand in their preparation ; and that it was essential that the judges remained at arm 's length . |
| 25 | He also denounced the murder of Hawkins as a hateful act but emphasized that " all of Bensonhurst did not commit this crime " and that it was essential to " categorically reject the notion of group guilt " . |
| 26 | He told Davidson that ‘ a Socialist Government would have an opportunity of learning their administrative duties and responsibilities under favourable conditions and that it was essential that their rights under the Constitution should in no way be impaired ’ . |
| 27 | STUART Gulliver , chairman of the Glasgow Development Agency , said yesterday that the processes of economic growth and job creation in the city had become separated and that it was essential to reestablish the ‘ umbilical cord , ’ writes John Hatfield . |
| 28 | The defendants may then have to meet this ‘ provisional burden ’ by adducing evidence that their purpose was something else and that it was legitimate , without affecting the ‘ legal burden ’ of proof . |
| 29 | Some were gentlemen who felt strongly , like his lordship himself , that fair play had not been done at Versailles and that it was immoral to go on punishing a nation for a war that was now over . |
| 30 | The trouble was that ( where it was not already part of tradition ) the introduction of piece-work was often resisted , especially by the skilled men , and that it was complex and obscure not only for the workers , but for employers who often had only the haziest idea of what production-norms to set . |