Example sentences of "that it [was/were] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Langley on behalf of the Bank of England submitted that the basis of the injunction was the relationship of confidence subsisting between the Bank and its customer , and that it was well established that the duty of confidence was overridden by the duty to comply with the law , as shown by Reg. v. Inland Revenue Commissioners , Ex parte Taylor ( No. 2 ) [ 1989 ] 3 All E.R. |
| 2 | She had been adopted as a small child by the counsellor 's wife , now dead — so said my companion , adding that it was well known that she would marry Victor , and so come into a deal of money . |
| 3 | Carlos Abadia , leader of the broad-based opposition movement National Civic Crusade ( NCC ) , claimed that it was well known that Ford wished to stand for the presidency in 1994 and that he wished to give up his ministerial post " to reduce the political pressure on him " . |
| 4 | [ Around 1800 ] persons … were enabled by their skill and industry to maintain themselves and families in a state of comfort and respectability ; and to keep their own houses and pay taxes , scot and lot , and contribute towards the maintenance of other persons in their profession , who were either sick or in distress , so that it was scarcely known that any person in this trade ever applied for parochial relief . |
| 5 | Göring added that it was widely believed that Poland intended to annex East Prussia and Danzig in the near future . |
| 6 | He explained the detailed attention which was paid to the background of a child appearing before the Panel and pointed out that it was often revealed that the children concerned came from large families , which were poor and in which there was an absence of adult male guidance . |
| 7 | Henry was an exacting master , possessed of so much energy that it was popularly rumoured that he could fly , so swiftly did he travel from place to place . |
| 8 | Yesterday , John Wright , counsel for Timex , told Lord Hope , the Lord President , sitting with Lords Allanbridge and Brand , that it was now intended that another interdict would be sought against two officials of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union and two shop stewards . |
| 9 | Furthermore mutual antagonism between France and Germany was so great that it was commonly assumed that only Britain could act as an ‘ honest broker ’ to draw them together . |