Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [that] it [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | US intelligence had estimated that North Korea could have nuclear weapons ready by 1993 and that it was taking action to hide the existence of components from possible international inspection . |
| 2 | THE shares of Quicks Group raced ahead 22 to 90p yesterday after the Manchester-based car distributor announced a return to the black in 1991 and that it was maintaining its dividend total at 3p , with a 2p final on July 10 . |
| 3 | She discovered the material was rotten and that it was contaminated . |
| 4 | The press notice showed different things — that output was growing , that it was standing still and that it was falling . |
| 5 | ( On Feb. 7 , 1990 , Deputy Finance Minister Janusz Sawicki had said that Poland 's foreign debt was US$40,000 million at the end of 1989 and that it was set to reach $43,000 million by the end of 1990 . ) |
| 6 | She held firm because she knew that the road to compromise was without signposts , that the possibilities for getting lost were manifold and that it was paved with flawed imitations of the truth . |
| 7 | The Left believed , and there is little evidence to the contrary even after 30 years of " revisionist " history , that the National government was willing to make concessions out of all proportion to those necessary and that it was supported by influential people who were quite willing to see Hitler at war with the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | For the purposes of mens rea or the mental state of the accused , where his awareness is impaired by intoxicants he shall be taken to be aware of that which he would have been aware if not intoxicated , unless he shows either that his intoxication was not self-induced or that it was caused solely by the taking or administration of a substance in the course of medical treatment ( Section 6(5) ) . |