Example sentences of "[conj] that [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no doubt that Unionists believed in what they were doing or that they saw the government 's actions as justifying their responses . |
| 2 | Yet it would be anachronistic to assume that they had surrendered their rights in anticipation of Marxist theories about the superiority of the all-Russian market , or that they felt a particular brotherly love towards the Great Russian folk . |
| 3 | There was no indication that they , unlike the aggro leaders , were actively engaged in inciting other fans to join in the scraps or that they led concerted attacks against the opposition . |
| 4 | The companies successfully argued that many elements of the Macintosh screen , which uses movable symbols rather than typed commands , were not original or that they had been invented by Xerox Corporation or International Business Machines . |
| 5 | The two newslines were the fact that the band all possessed degrees or that they had chosen George Beat ( v. old footballer , as they would say ) . |
| 6 | The reference to the tent meant either that ‘ John Parsons ’ had written it , and was hoping to see me around , or that they had teamed up on a declared truce . |
| 7 | Sometimes they possessed knowledge about sex , but could not admit that this was sexual , or that they had those sorts of desires . |
| 8 | Held , ( 1 ) that on an appeal to the High Court from a decision of justices under the Children Act 1989 fresh evidence could be adduced only with leave in exceptional circumstances , and the court would not interfere with the exercise of the justices ' discretion unless it considered that their decision was plainly wrong or that they had erred in principle ; and that , further , an interm order would not lightly be interfered with in view of its temporary nature and the often provisional character of the evidence ( post , p. 271A–B ) . |
| 9 | The Lord Chief Justice had said then that it would be wrong for it to appear that the proposals had the backing of the judges or that they had had any hand in their preparation ; and that it was essential that the judges remained at arm 's length . |
| 10 | What 's new is that the old defence , that a director did not ‘ knowingly or willingly ’ allow something to happen has been eroded and , Bell said , ‘ directors will have to show specifically and beyond a shadow of doubt they could not know what was happening or that they had minuted their protest ’ . |
| 11 | I have just met some colleagues in the House — and I do not dare to name the Opposition Members — who asked me questions about the amendment because there were points that they could not understand or that they had not seen before . |
| 12 | A number of people were granted exemption on the grounds either that they were too poor to pay taxes and rates or that they had a certificate signed by the minister and parish officers to the effect that their premises were worth not more than 1 per annum or that their personal property was worth less than £10 per annum ; however , no exemption was allowed anyone possessing more than two hearths . |
| 13 | It is not my intention to argue that villagers confused the two institutions , or that they thought magistrates and demons to be similar types of beings . |
| 14 | It 's a little like listening to those debates in parliament where parliament vote themselves extra salaries and I feel very uncomfortable in this process , I thought I might be coming here this morning to disagree with my own group , or those members of them that do n't agree with me , perhaps joined with the conservatives in opposing this motion , but I find in fact that everybody is saying oh let's put up the er , the heading , I feel very uncomfortable with this having spent six months in the budget review , criticising officers up hill and down dale every time that they exceeded their budget , having told them that either they balance their budget or that they came in next year with a budget with no more than a one and a half percent increase , or their successors would be doing it for us . |
| 15 | The fact that urban areas were hit early and particularly hard by this loss is then explained by conditions which operate within this broader context : for example , that cities tended to have the older and thus often less profitable parts of individual industries ; or that they suffered from decentralization to cheaper and less organized workers . |
| 16 | Or that they 'd sacked him . |
| 17 | Or that they 'd got to attend court or something . |
| 18 | Fragmentation and excessive pace were also found to be important variables bearing on job satisfaction , with many workers , who did not find their work monotonous , stating that it did not absorb their full attention or that they found the pace of it too fast . |
| 19 | That some of the articles were ill-argued , that they lacked style , or that they attributed to schools and teachers almost every ill that mankind was heir to , went unnoticed in the popular press ( which reported , usually without reservation , the ‘ findings ’ of each Black Paper ) . |
| 20 | Many practices realised that their marketing had been deficient or that they needed to know more about trends and opportunities . |
| 21 | Well it may be that they do n't know how to , or that they set out such patterns of relating together that they have n't got the means of coping with it . |
| 22 | In the end , where it was necessary to decide compromises , with such issues as who could use women 's and lesbian and gay centres , behaviours often had to be allocated the moral high ground on highly pragmatic criteria : that they were private , or that they did n't involve conspicuous clothing , for instance . |
| 23 | The fact that so few complied not only testifies to the courage of those who signed , but also gives the lie to the notion that they were somehow conned into signing or that they did so out of temporary frustration with events immediately following the Danish vote . |
| 24 | ‘ even if Mr. Shephard had exercised some dominating influence over her , there is no evidence to show that the bank knew that he would or might bring such influence to bear , or that they used Mr. Shephard in order that he should exert pressure on his wife … |
| 25 | Secondly , on the issue of the precedents for making a defendant prove his defence in the way in which the Bill requires , I argue that every year — certainly since I have been in the House — we have created numerous new offences which have defences attached to them , usually for those who can show that they acted reasonably or that they used due diligence to ensure that they avoided committing an offence . |
| 26 | This is partly because of their ephemeral nature and partly because disclosure would often reveal either that very sensitive subjects were under consideration or that we had something in train about which we were not ready to make an announcement . |
| 27 | Several times he stopped and listened , thinking that there had been a movement just behind him or just to the side of him , or that something had padded after him on stealthy feet and was standing watching him . |
| 28 | I suppose I could have thought from the little he 'd said up until then that my half-brother was dead , or ill , or that something had happened to him , but I knew then it was something Eric had done , and there was only one thing he could have done which would make my father look worried . |
| 29 | Some of Harvard 's clients reneged on their agreements to sell when the price climbed , making ridiculous claims , like that the dog had chewed up the allotment letter , or that somebody had sold as a practical joke . |
| 30 | His appeal to the Court of Appeal contained five separate strands , contending that the verdict of the jury was unsafe or unsatisfactory , or that there had been a material irregularity or that there had been a wrong decision on a question of law . |