Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb pp] [that] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had brilliantly and successfully argued that the Toraja religion was one and the same with whatever " Hindu-Balinese animism " might be — and thus Toraja religion was permitted to survive . |
| 2 | The government accused Czechoslovakia ( which represented Cuba 's diplomatic interests in the United States ) of " hypocritical inconsistency " — sheltering asylum seekers while requesting official protection to deal with the " consequences " of such an action , and additionally claimed that the episode was aimed at causing embarrassment in the run-up to the July 26 celebrations . |
| 3 | Irish diplomats mounted a full-scale search in Argentina , and eventually found that the girl was among those rescued from The Family during the police raids . |
| 4 | She knew very well that he had always regretted marrying her when he could have had Martha , and secretly longed that the family feud could be ended . |
| 5 | A shadowy image of herself stood there , nodding and smiling shyly , while the real Isabel remained in the cold , lonely place she had inhabited for so long and grimly decided that the first step was almost accomplished . |
| 6 | Catriona wiped down the last of her tables and suddenly realised that the conversation around her had stopped . |
| 7 | In fact many women said it was kinder to cry than to be angry because , they claimed , if they said what they were really thinking their husbands would be so incredulous and so humiliated that the marriage would not survive . |
| 8 | On July 25th , 1908 , the rails forced their way into Denwood , and those who had been waiting so long and patiently considered that the prizes were theirs at last . |
| 9 | The shikar lobby was strong and well organized and naturally argued that the tiger population was holding its own . |
| 10 | He listened , made soft encouraging noises , held the receiver an inch or two from his ear , and meanwhile noted that the writer , poor bastard , had n't even thought of altering the distinctive cross-bar of his small letter t . |
| 11 | ‘ On 27 June 1991 the matter came before Judge Lally in the Ontario court and he adjourned the case for a week , I believe because of shortage of time , and meanwhile ordered that the child was not to be removed from the jurisdiction of the Ontario court in the interim . |
| 12 | Congress ( I ) leaders accused the government of vindictiveness and of seeking to install its own supporters as governors , and further maintained that the actions also went against the spirit of the Constitution and against the recommendations of the Sarkaria Committee which had suggested that governors should be persons not too closely or recently involved in party politics and that governors from one political party should not be imposed on a state governed by an opposing party . |
| 13 | The town seemed deserted until a postman appeared and willingly explained that the only Germans there were Gestapo and a few businessmen . |
| 14 | The early French film-maker Georges Méliès is reputed to have discovered the magical properties of ‘ cutting ’ in-camera when , in 1896 , he was recording the flow of Parisian traffic ; he stopped and restarted the camera and later found that the scene had been transformed in an instant . |
| 15 | The Court restricted its judgment to the Murrays , and also ruled that the concept of " native title " could exist only where such rights had not been extinguished by the government . |
| 16 | Lord Denning as Master of the Rolls fought long and hard to persuade his colleagues that the Court of Appeal should free itself from the fetter of being bound by its own previous decisions just as the House of Lords had done in the 1966 Practice Statement ( see below ) , and also suggested that the Court of Appeal was free to refuse to follow decisions of the House of Lords which were considered to be clearly wrong ( Carty , 1983 ) . |
| 17 | The same Act permits marriages between in-laws , subject to the same provisos , and also provided that the former spouses have died . |
| 18 | Harris ( 1989a ) and Moriarty , Gordon , Kuserk and Wang ( 1990 ) studied the basis of the S&P500 during the crash and also found that the large negative basis was substantially reduced when allowance was made for stale prices , and that the futures price led the spot price by a few minutes ( even after allowing for the stale prices effect ) . |
| 19 | When the Court of Appeal held that the petitioner was not entitled to appeal as of right , the court was unfortunately and inadvertently and erroneously informed that the cancellation issue had not been finally determined by the judgment of the Court of Appeal delivered on 4 October 1991 . |
| 20 | Garrett , Bever and Fodor ( 1966 ) showed that clicks were perceptually localised at clause boundaries , and hence concluded that the clause is the main perceptual unit . |
| 21 | Forster and Olbrei found that there was a significant correlation ( .65 ) between the time taken to respond to a plausible sentence and its implausible equivalent , and hence concluded that the time taken to analyse a syntactic structure was approximately constant , and independent of semantic constraints . |
| 22 | The portrayal of many incidents of rape and beating are so carefully and tactfully described that the effects are realistic and pitiful . |
| 23 | The Committee was generally critical of the universities ' past role , and clearly hoped that the CNAA might be persuaded to take on what might prove to be a very substantial validating function . |
| 24 | ‘ So you jumped to the conclusion that the two episodes were connected and instantly assumed that the villain was me ! ’ |
| 25 | The Duke and Duchess of Richmond sought an answer , but the Duke of Wellington merely smiled and blithely proposed that the company should proceed to supper . |
| 26 | At a public meeting last September he suggested that saying ‘ they ought to do something about it ’ was pointless , and boldly proposed that the only way to save the shop was for everyone in the village to club together and buy it . |
| 27 | Cantalupo was pessimistic about the likelihood of a rapid Nationalist victory and even thought that the Republican defence of the north might not collapse , as the Nationalists expected . |
| 28 | The IASC Board reconsidered the LIFO issue at its June meeting this year in the light of comments received on E 38 , and tentatively agreed that the use of LIFO should not be permitted . |
| 29 | We handled more than 6000 toads in the first year and immediately realised that the population was larger than at first envisaged . |
| 30 | " After which it was moved by Mr. James Bogle Smith seconded and unanimously resolved that the Court are of opinion that the School at Stockport should be discontinued and that the Court approves generally of the suggestions submitted to their consideration for discontinuing the School and refers the matter to the Standing Committee to open such communication with the Corporation of Stockport and the Master of the School as they may consider it desirable to make , with a view to carry the suggested plan into effect . " |