Example sentences of "[coord] that it [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Lord Devlin has explained : " … you can not escape liability for defamation by putting the libel behind a prefix such as " I have been told that … " " or " it is rumoured that … " " , and then asserting that it was true that you had been told or that it was in fact being rumoured … |
| 2 | Not only would I have refrained from interfering with Thorpe J. 's decision on the footing that he had properly directed himself and that it was for him to decide , but because , even on the facts as they then were , I consider that his decision was plainly right . |
| 3 | Held , allowing the appeal , that where a driver was required to provide a specimen of blood or urine for one of the reasons set out in section 7(3) of the Act of 1988 , or claimed the right to provide such a specimen under section 8(2) , the constable was required by section 7(4) to inform him that the specimen was to be of blood or urine and that it was for the constable to decide which ; but that there was no requirement to invite the driver to express his preference for giving blood or urine ; that if the constable intended to require a specimen of blood , the driver was to be given the right to object on medical grounds to be determined by a medical practitioner or , if the requirement had been made under section 7(3) , for some other reason affording a ‘ reasonable excuse ’ within section 7(6) of the Act ; and that , accordingly , the requirement for the defendant to provide a specimen of blood had complied with section 7(4) ( post , pp. 885G–H , 890D–G , 891A–D , 895B–E , H — 896A ) . |
| 4 | " Mr Herriot , " he said as the smoke rose around his ears , " do you ever feel when sammat happens that it was meant to happen and that it was for t'best ? " |
| 5 | Well aware that it was a game to Richard — a pretence with which to pass the empty hours — and that it was to Anne , rather than Joan , he was in this instance referring , such comments never failed to annoy Edward — as Richard was well aware . |
| 6 | It was noted that linking with the Roman Catholic Education Commission had causes problems of communication since the latter was mainly concerned with schools , and that it was to be hoped that putting the promotion of house groups on to the agenda of the Bishops ' Conference would prove more fruitful . |
| 7 | The stranger might refuse to admit defeat and maintain simply that the person sitting on the bench was not I , that he was I , and that it was with him that the man who was now doubting his identity was having a conversation a moment ago . |
| 8 | Leavis was a major critic and a very influential educator , who was convinced both that criticism was essentially evaluative and that it was at the heart of English studies . |
| 9 | But it omitted any reference to the dangers of ‘ Leftism ’ , despite the fact that Deng had stressed this , and that it was at the heart of a party politburo statement . |
| 10 | Once , it had seemed that the candle of her life would burn only till Christmas , and that it was towards that single point that she was spinning out the last hours of her life . |
| 11 | The report states : ‘ She knew it was not right in him to act as he did and … she knew it was not right in herself in permitting him … she knew it was wrong in both , and that it was against her will at all the tunes . ’ |
| 12 | She stayed on at the hotel and distracted him and then the next day other people got to him and explained that Parkinson was really a nice guy and that it was like painting and . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Lutyens 's family were brought up to believe that it was their father who invented Nanna , and that it was from their own night nursery window in Bloomsbury Square that Wendy and the boys flew with Peter Pan to the Neverland . |
| 15 | It is suggested that it was derived from the hauling of boats along the river and that it was from this place that manual hauling of boats along a tow path began , but in all fairness I think this can be discounted . |
| 16 | Mr Justice Jowitt told Anderson : ‘ I accept that you were not on the prowl looking for a victim and that it was by chance that this young lady got into your car . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , its report , published in June 1978 , confirmed that there was serious maltreatment and that it was by persons other than the uniformed members of the RUC . |
| 18 | However , he further submits that the Ontario court was ‘ an institution or other body ’ within the terms of the Convention which had a right to determine the child 's place of residence and that it was in the process of exercising that right by adjourning the matter to a date in August and by giving directions as to how the matter should be dealt with — that is to say , by hearing oral evidence . |
| 19 | Reagan himself claimed that the SDI was defensive in character , since it was designed to dispose of nuclear weapons before they reached their target , and that it was in any event a programme of research in the first instance . |
| 20 | I knew that he too would tell me I was wrong and that it was in another part of the country . |
| 21 | I replied that I had not done so-that I was happy in the Foreign Office , and in the House of Lords which I had never contemplated leaving , and that it was in these fields that my strong preferences lay . |
| 22 | With reference to your telephone conversation with my secretary on the 15th instant when you confirmed that you had completed your mortgage arrangements with Barclays Bank PLC , Bishops ' Stortford and that it was in order for me to deal with the draft Contract when it was received . |
| 23 | If anyone were to ask whether the cottage was for sale or rent , Mother Francis was always ready with a helpless shrug of the shoulders to say that things had n't been fully sorted out yet , but that it was in Eve 's name and nothing could be done until she was twenty-one . |