Example sentences of "that [pron] [was/were] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agent might , for example , be at fault if in the circumstances the consent could be taken as sufficient evidence that the agent has power to consent ( i.e. , that there were reasons for holding the consent valid ) and the agent should have realized this . |
| 2 | This power existed where , as the statute provided , it appeared to him that there were reasons for doubting whether the trade union members , in taking part in industrial action , were acting in accordance with their own wishes . |
| 3 | Michael also felt that there were spin-offs for the content of lessons : |
| 4 | And their performance was so popular with the watching crowd that there were calls for the return of the stocks . |
| 5 | But while it was certainly true that there were precedents for government policy towards the church in the 1530s , and that earlier monarchs had acted on the assumption that they had no superior within their realm , the Henrician supremacy was none the less unquestionably revolutionary . |
| 6 | When recruited , black soldiers were informed by colonial officials that they would receive the same training , equipment , and pay as other British troops , they were also led to believe that there were possibilities for promotion . |
| 7 | His right to sit was first referred to a select committee of the House of Commons which reported , somewhat unhelpfully , that there were arguments for and against his right to sit , and recommended clarifying legislation which , however , has not been forthcoming . |
| 8 | MONDAY After the Miracle by William Gibson , which continues the wonderful Helen Keller story , was produced by the Horseshoe Theatre Company at the Central Studio , Basingstoke in 1990 and made such an impact that there were demands for a repeat . |
| 9 | It is further urged upon me that the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact with each other , and the justices being satisfied that there were grounds for believing that both the children were likely to suffer significant harm , which was a specific finding that they made , they were plainly wrong in refusing to make an interim order in that they first of all failed to have regard to the fact that the parents had colluded over the cause of D. 's injuries , and there was evidence to that effect ; secondly , that the mother had lied to social services , Dr. Barnardo 's and the guardian about having had at the relevant times no contact with the father — and that is indeed what the mother has done , she has lied ; and , thirdly , that the father had been in breach of a term of the bail conditions which had been imposed upon him , not only on 23 December 1991 but ever since his release in as much as he had visited and contacted the mother . |
| 10 | The 7th Earl decided in the early part of the twentieth century to install in the two rooms the panelling and so designed it that there were recesses for pictures . |
| 11 | Some of the beef classes were judged by an Argentinian , M Rodman , who said that he was particularly impressed with the easy-to-manage British breeds like the Angus and Hereford , and that there was scope for wider use of them in his country . |
| 12 | Consultants for the pressure group Transport 2000 claimed in 1987 that there was scope for transferring some 888 to 1,644 heavy goods vehicles per day from road to rail . |
| 13 | Local government was inefficient and lacked leaders of calibre ; the civil service was too amateurish ; the House of Commons needed a strong committee system ; policy coordination and planning were poor ; and many felt that there was scope for reform with respect to the redress of individual grievances against the state . |
| 14 | He also said that in the current , 1992 , fiscal year new lending would rise to $23,000-25,000 million , and that there was scope for considerable loans to the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | On the Canterbury estates , the initial period of leasing from 1380 to 1440 was followed by a time when it was harder to secure tenants , but after about 1490 there was some recovery in revenues and evidence that there was competition for leases ( 80 , pp.79 , 86 ) . |
| 16 | Thus the interior contained only a single row of nave arcade columns ( Plate 21 ) and the comparative narrowness of the plan meant that there was space for only a range of shallow ancillary rooms — stores , bathrooms and laundry ( Fig 44 ) — on the north side of the ground-floor flats access corridor once dwellings of suitable size , restricted to the spans of the nave arcade bays , had been accommodated . |
| 17 | All these studies of the transition from school to work discussed so far had assumed that there was work for young people to enter . |
| 18 | It is clear from the conversation that there was sympathy for the person involved because it was easy for them to place themselves in that position , allowing the event to be normalized . |
| 19 | By the mid-1960s the need was becoming urgent for an overhaul of the traditional tribunals in which the more serious indictable crimes were tried before a High Court Judge , part-time Recorder or chairman of Quarter Sessions , and in 1966 the Government decided that there was substance for another Royal Commission . |
| 20 | I therefore conclude , though not without some doubt , that there was consideration for the new agreement … . |
| 21 | Having reached the conclusion that there was consideration for the agreement made on June 28 and June 29 , 1973 , I must next consider whether even if that agreement , varying the terms of the original ship-building contract of April 10 , 1972 , was made under a threat to break that original contract and that the various increased instalments were made consequentially under the varied agreement , the increased sums can be recovered as money had and received . |
| 22 | If I am right in the conclusion reached with some doubt earlier that there was consideration for the 10 per cent . |
| 23 | The design team under Hugh Lasson and Misha Black ( both later knighted ) were right in believing that there was hunger for visual stimulation among the British and they got it in the form of sculpture , murals and mobiles by Moore , Hepworth , Piper , Sutherland , Topolski and Epstein as well as a pedestrian precinct which was all grilles and screens and balls and decks and terraces and fountains and colour . |
| 24 | But that there was need for a substantial change in British society was a widespread conclusion . |
| 25 | In his opening address on 29 September the pope rejected the notion , common since Vatican I , that the authority of the pontiff alone was sufficient to govern the Church , and listed the four aims of the Council : that the Church should have a clearer idea of its own nature ; that there was need for renewal ; that Christians of all denominations be brought closer together ( he apologized for the Catholic Church 's own failings in its relations with non-Catholics ) ; and finally , the need for dialogue between Church and world . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've spent all my life in general PR , but it was about eight years ago I decided that there was room for a specialist agency , not really a PR firm , which was concerned entirely with government relations . |
| 27 | Mr Ainslie noted that there was still too much geographic focus on where business was carried out within the company despite the international nature of the business and that there was room for a more unified focus . |
| 28 | ‘ When we started we felt that there was room for another East End of London author , having publicised ( in my case ) Lena Kennedy before , and Sue having edited her . |
| 29 | I always felt that there was room for improvement in top management . |
| 30 | When in 1953 Wyndham Lewis suggested a further campaign to release Pound from confinement , Eliot at first advised against any precipitate step : a number of proposals were being considered — including a letter to President Eisenhower — but he was wary of doing anything from England without being sure that there was approval for such moves in America . |