Example sentences of "the [noun pl] that there was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second shot would do no damage , but it might persuade the Frenchmen that there was a group of enemy in front of them . |
| 2 | For some this was an entirely new experience , and it was felt within the schools that there was now a greater awareness among a significant proportion of staff of what was available on the shelves , and of the appropriateness and readability of book material . |
| 3 | Because I 've had a look through all the books that there was and er there 's never more than what . |
| 4 | They used to go all the way out to these erm Searchlight Stations and erm they used to , very often they , they were situated in a , in a sort of pit in a dug out and erm when they arrived of course er the Education Officer had forgotten to tell the , the troops that there was a lecture that they were supposed to attend and er nobody turned up . |
| 5 | One of his ideas was to convince the Italians that there was a large airborne force in the Middle East . |
| 6 | The available statistics offer some support for the allegations that there was much perjury . |
| 7 | ( b ) In the alternative , any findings of the justices that there was no alternative to a secure accommodation order were unsupported by the evidence before them . |
| 8 | The argument on appeal from the ruling of the justices that there was no case to answer — a decision that Donaldson L.J . |
| 9 | They were told by the police that there was reason to fear a breach of the peace if they proceeded and , when they attempted to push through , they were arrested for obstructing the police . |
| 10 | So both groups had come a similar distance in the sense of having the indications that there was something interesting to pursue further . |
| 11 | The bystander requirement in section 5 is not simply an objective hypothetical measure of the quality of the defendant 's conduct , as in the first three sections of the Act ; rather , the policeman or other witness who gives evidence of the defendant 's misconduct must satisfy the magistrates that there was a person present who was likely to be harassed , alarmed or distressed . |
| 12 | The previous May , 13 of his co-defendants were acquitted and released unconditionally on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence for prosecution . |
| 13 | This was rejected on the grounds that there was nowhere else to put the rescued artifacts , many of which were designed for the house . |
| 14 | However , some in the Treasury are understood to have been recommending a base rate increase for some weeks on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence that the economy had cooled . |
| 15 | A decision was made not to prosecute , ostensibly on the grounds that there was no evidence of any offence , except possibly one of receiving indecent material through the post , and Hayman escaped with a caution . |
| 16 | Savory Milln applied to strike out the action on the grounds that there was no basis for the claim ( see Eagle Trust plc v SBC Securities Ltd [ 1992 ] 4 All ER 488 ) . |
| 17 | Soering applied to the European Commission of Human Rights on the grounds that there was a serious likelihood that if he were extradited to the United States he would be executed . |
| 18 | If the judge awarded damages to the petitioner on the grounds that there was no compromise or that the compromise had been cancelled and on the grounds that the respondents had been guilty of misconduct in the Clearwater transaction , then the respondents could have appealed to the Court of Appeal and either party , losing before the Court of Appeal , could have appealed to the Privy Council as of right and on that appeal all three issues , the compromise issue , the cancellation issue and the misconduct issue could have been argued . |
| 19 | As a result Finance Ministers agreed in Luxembourg on Oct. 9 to prolong the existing system " for a limited period " , on the grounds that there was not enough time before January 1993 to introduce another , more effective one . |
| 20 | At first he resisted the demand for a judicial inquiry , on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence , but on April 25 he received a note from the Israeli government , informing him that it possessed a letter from Vere Bird Jr dated Nov. 9 , 1988 , which confirmed the arms order . |
| 21 | Rockefeller , a member of the oil and banking family , explained his decision on the grounds that there was too little time to organise a successful campaign and to be ready to form an administration which would meet his " own high standards " . |
| 22 | Hans Modrow , then the leader of the Dresden regional SED organization ( and later East German Prime Minister ) , refused to give evidence in the trial , on the grounds that there was a case pending against him relating to those elections . |
| 23 | Judge Marvin Shoob , who presided over the trial of the Atlanta BNL branch former manager Christopher Drogoul [ see p. 39135 ] , expressed surprise and disappointment at Lacey 's conclusion on the grounds that there was " ample evidence not only of a cover-up , but also of government participation that was improper " . |
| 24 | Philip of Swabia , meanwhile , was maintaining the illegality of the meeting on the grounds that there was a legitimate heir , that oaths had been taken to that heir by all the princes and that , furthermore , few of them had been present at Andernach . |
| 25 | However , the Court of Appeal still confirmed that the application in Merrill Lynch was not patentable but on the grounds that there was no technical effect , the operation being entirely software based . |
| 26 | The decision is justified on the grounds that there was no guarantee that the plaintiff would receive any of the fine and that Parliament could not have intended a workman to be deprived of the chance to seek compensation for his injuries . |
| 27 | An early restart had been planned , but the Inspectorate ruled against it on the grounds that there was still a risk that welds in the pressure vessels could fail as they cool , becoming brittle and eventually breaking , with the risk of a serious accident due to loss of coolant . |
| 28 | A minority of the committee voted against the decision on the grounds that there was no definite scientific evidence that such animals experience suffering . |
| 29 | Plans to convert a building used for storage to form part of an existing house in Bridge Street , Middleton in Teesdale , was rejected by Teesdale district councillors on the grounds that there was inadequate parking . |