Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many airlines are so confused or battered that they no longer have anything resembling a clear business strategy . |
| 2 | Lydia had not imagined or expected that Betty would touch the pheasant . |
| 3 | Five others either declared their candidacy or announced that they would soon do so : Edmund G. ( Jerry ) Brown Jr , Governor of California in 1975-83 ; Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas ; Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa ; Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska , and Governor L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) Where a competent objector desires to object in relation to any application , he shall , not later than seven days before the meeting of the licensing board at which the application is to be considered : ( a ) lodge with the clerk of the board a written notice of objection which be signed by the objector or his agent and shall specify the grounds of his objection and ( b ) intimate his objection to the applicant in the manner provided by subsection ( 3 ) below , and an objection shall not be entertained by the licensing board unless it is proved or admitted that such objection was intimated to the applicant as aforesaid . |
| 5 | Average scores for each nurse and resident were calculated for both collaboration and satisfaction , and their perceptions of alternative decision choices were assessed by asking them how much they agreed or disagreed that there was no alternative choice in the case of each specific patient . |
| 6 | The government adopted a decree on April 5 for the provision of homes and jobs to returning Turks , many of whom had sold their houses or found that the local authorities had bulldozed them in their absence . |
| 7 | They have , of course , heard about the Holy Spirit , but have either put it all down to typical ecclesiastical in-talk , or assumed that it was not intended for ordinary folk like themselves . |
| 8 | We can certainly agree that political sociologists have not confined their attention to the narrower governmental sphere or believed that this constitutes a part ( albeit an important part ) of the world of politics . |
| 9 | When those at the level of schools read about allegations of incompetence on the part of the earlier separate Universities Funding Council and about the individual difficulties of separate universities , they felt frustration about the apparent misuse of money in other sectors or believed that if other people got their sums wrong , they in schools should also have been excused . |
| 10 | When a detained person is charged with or informed that he may be prosecuted for an offence he shall be cautioned in the terms of paragraph 10.4 above . |
| 11 | Questions relating to an offence may not be put to a person after he has been charged with that offence , or informed that he may be prosecuted for it , unless they are necessary for the purpose of preventing or minimising harm or loss to some other person or to the public or for clearing up an ambiguity in a previous answer or statement , or where it is in the interests of justice that the person should have put to him and have an opportunity to comment on information concerning the offence which has come to light since he was charged or informed that he might be prosecuted . |
| 12 | Questions relating to an offence may not be put to a person after he has been charged with that offence , or informed that he may be prosecuted for it , unless they are necessary for the purpose of preventing or minimising harm or loss to some other person or to the public or for clearing up an ambiguity in a previous answer or statement , or where it is in the interests of justice that the person should have put to him and have an opportunity to comment on information concerning the offence which has come to light since he was charged or informed that he might be prosecuted . |
| 13 | I wished that I was less inhibited by my upbringing and could have done some extraordinary thing to confirm her diagnosis — danced on the table or stated that I would n't ally myself with a man with a face like a toothpaste advertisement . |
| 14 | We could not accept a treaty that contained either a commitment at the beginning to a federal vocation or a review clause at the end — this is the question I have just answered — which implied or stated that the result of the review must be a movement towards federalism . |
| 15 | The other half of this group ( about a quarter of the entire sample ) either rejected the Authority 's recommendations entirely or claimed that although they agreed with them in principle they were prevented from implementing them by unsuitable classroom conditions or other school circumstances . |
| 16 | She did n't know whether to be grateful or alarmed that her time here had softened her . |
| 17 | They alleged that electoral rolls had been tampered with and that people had been either pressurized to vote , refused a vote , or discovered that others had voted in their place . |
| 18 | Much so-called ‘ atonal ’ music is only music with a tonal foundation so obscured or disrupted that it is not easily perceived . |
| 19 | Miliutin either said or implied that the time had passed for half-measures like the Law on Free Agriculturalists of 1803 , the Baltic emancipation of 1816 – 19 and the Law on Obligated Peasants of 1842 . |
| 20 | Only later had it occurred to him to wonder whether he should feel alarmed by Charlotte 's anxious tone or flattered that she felt she could turn to him for advice . |
| 21 | Those solicitors , in their turn , caused or thought that they had caused the documents to be dispatched direct to the father and the mother with a covering letter specifically directing attention to the desirability of obtaining independent legal advice . |
| 22 | He was so full of contradictions , she thought despairingly ; so nearly describing the marriage he 'd got — with Bella — and the one that he would like to have … or thought that he would ! |
| 23 | Or thought that he did . |
| 24 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 25 | Eight of the twelve Members I interviewed made no complaint of bias towards the front-benches ( or vice-versa ! ) , or felt that the balance had been well struck , but four expressed reservations . |
| 26 | However , as an economist and Labour supporter , I was never convinced by its campaign , or felt that it was winning or deserved to win . |
| 27 | Tom laughed , of course , and she did n't know if she was pleased or angered that he so often seemed to find her so amusing . |
| 28 | Somebody was telling me the Rocky was on R5 the other week & said that when he was with Arsenal & they won the league at Liverpool in the last few minutes , Arsenal were 13 ( ? ) points clear at the new year but still had to come from behind to overtake Liverpool ! ! ! |
| 29 | Universal franchise has not produced the working-class political dominance which so many people in the nineteenth century on both sides of the debate either feared or hoped that it would . |
| 30 | Not once had he spoken of his love for her , or said that he could wait for her too . |