Example sentences of "[coord] that it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although individual consent was of central importance to Hobbes , he did not believe that the authority of law rested on the fact that it promoted a desirable objective or that it reflected a profound truth . |
| 2 | This has no application when the type of substantive error is that the tribunal was improperly constituted , or that it made an order which it was not empowered to make . |
| 3 | Did that exhibition suggest to you that Pop Art was a thrusting and lively activity with a relevance in contemporary art , or that it had become a comfortable and nostalgic moment in art history ? |
| 4 | The project was approved at ministerial level because it had been decided that the contract either did not significantly enhance Iraq 's military capability or that it had been signed before December , 1984 . |
| 5 | Those were his heroes , and you can look at it like thy had a defeatist attitude or were grotesquely self-indulgent — or that it enabled them to have the art . |
| 6 | When , with colleagues in the Department of Social Administration , I interviewed members of the divorcing population , they argued passionately that divorce was too easy ( or too difficult ) ; that everything was rushed through before they had time to think ( or that it dragged on interminably ) ; and that divorce should be morally neutral ( or that there should be an inquest in which every detail of their spouse 's despicable conduct was exposed to public view ) . |
| 7 | Thirdly , it is doubtful whether the General Strike could be regarded as the watershed in British labour history , which it is sometimes claimed to be , or that it changed in any significant form the pattern of industrial relations . |
| 8 | In either case , an unauthorised practitioner will have committed a criminal offence under the Financial Services Act , and pleading that he did it only once or that it happened by accident is not going to impress anyone . |
| 9 | She had n't noticed before quite how dark his hair was , or that it curled slightly against his collar . |
| 10 | This means either that the utterance of [ 14a ] was not a case of genuine communication or that it did in fact achieve relevance . |
| 11 | Although the civil rights strategy could not have been adopted by republicans without the approval of the leadership of the IRA — and Roy Johnston stressed the importance of its involvement in the Maghera meeting of 1966 — — this does not mean that the army council initiated the setting up of NICRA or that it paid any detailed attention to the work being done by republicans within the association . |
| 12 | Society might judge that this severely reduced the welfare of citizens in remote areas or that it promoted regional dissent which reduced the sense of national unity . |
| 13 | Whether this means that life originated just once , or that it originated many times , each origin acquiring a different code , but that one origin gave rise to more successful competitors , we do not know . |
| 14 | It is hardly surprising that it replaced the old ‘ putting out ’ system , nor that it led displaced domestic workers and artisans to smash machinery in a wave of ‘ Luddite ’ outbreaks . |
| 15 | Labour leaders in the USA claimed that NAFTA would destroy jobs and that it offered little concrete provision for retraining . |
| 16 | Very quickly , by the early 1950s , the idea that a true ‘ Welfare State ’ had been created and that it offered an effective means of solving social inequalities was being criticised by the likes of Richard Titmuss . |
| 17 | However , when there was a conflict it appears that both interpretations were considered , and that it took a considerable amount of time to resolve the conflict . |
| 18 | Midland also admitted failing to supervise the fund managers to prevent them concentrating their stock holdings too narrowly and that it failed to maintain a register of the holders of six of the trusts or the amount of their holdings . |
| 19 | Although Lee stated that he did not intend to stand as a candidate in the presidential elections , the new party announced that it would contest the election and that it planned to choose a candidate by the end of October . |
| 20 | His mother felt helpless about the problem and that it reflected on her capability as a mother . |
| 21 | My recollection was that the detective story was one of E. Phillips Oppenheim 's , and that it concerned a horrific murder whereby the victim was , so to speak , liquefied and poured down the sink , so that the ‘ essence ’ of him was thus disposed of . |
| 22 | I learnt , many years later , that they paid over £30 to have a book of poems printed , and that it sold two copies . |
| 23 | Many would have claimed that it served none , that it was but the result of the Fall and of sin , and that it brought only harm and hurt to the world . |
| 24 | Ziegler ( 1978 ) , in his discussion of the Mass Observation records on the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953 , records that the two most commonly cited reasons for supporting the coronation were that it created wealth and that it united the nation . |
| 25 | The belief that self-validation was not an ideal system and that it prevailed in universities for historical reasons only . |
| 26 | It is possible that it could have been left with the registry in this office and that it reached the case file as a result , but I can not be sure . |
| 27 | The only comprehensive attempt to measure venereal infection , which plainly had a strong connection with some kinds of extra-marital sex , revealed little except that in Prussia , not unexpectedly , it was much higher in the megalopolis Berlin than in any other province ( tending normally to diminish with the size of cities and villages ) , and that it reached its maximum in towns with ports , garrisons and institutes of higher education , i.e. with heavy concentrations of unmarried young men away from their homes . |
| 28 | However , speculation remained that the Army distrusted the peace process , and that it believed that the URNG 's motives were designed to buy time and international prestige while it regrouped its forces . |
| 29 | The parish priest of Brackenstown , Swords , County Dublin , distributed a newsletter at all masses on Ascension Thursday , 22 May — though before he had read Archbishop MacNamara 's guidelines on how to conduct the campaign — claiming that no-fault divorce was first introduced by Nazi Germany and that it had since wreaked ‘ more havoc on the Allied countries than any German army or air force ever did ’ ( Irish Times , 28 June 1986 ) . |
| 30 | Mr Fitton yesterday made clear that he had always been acting in an independent capacity in the offer for Eagle , and that it had no connection with Braithwaite . |