Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] was [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
| 2 | If not , it is their loss , for it is the catholicity of the education to which I was exposed that I have come most to value . |
| 3 | I was at length summoned for interview , during which I was told that the War Office wished to fill a post of Instructor-cum-British Adviser at the Staff College and Royal Military College , Baghdad , Iraq , and that in order to reassure the Iraqi High Command that they were not sending a British ‘ plant ’ ( for relations between the two countries were strained ) , they asked the British Council to fill it . |
| 4 | The two ladies had each paid 500 dollars for the privilege of a ten-minute consultation , during which one was told that she had been a quartz crystal in a former life while the other was informed that she had been an E flat ! |
| 5 | Did they have to have so tight-packed an audience , with the front row so close to the dais on which he was sitting that he could positively feel their stupid gawping eyes on him ? |
| 6 | We are back with the problem which Eliot had considered in March 1914 when one of his seminar colleagues , Sen Gupta , had read a paper that Eliot had written dealing with the work of Lévy-Bruhl ‘ on primitive race-psychology ’ and the ‘ law of participation ’ , a paper in which it was stated that , ‘ Causality is something which can be explained away but not explained . |
| 7 | Mr Anthony ArlidgeQC , counsel for Dr Crockett , read out an advertisement from a Turkish newspaper in which it was stated that Mr Koc was selling his kidney . |
| 8 | Mr Anthony ArlidgeQC , counsel for Dr Crockett , read out an advertisement from a Turkish newspaper in which it was stated that Mr Koc was selling his kidney . |
| 9 | There then followed a frenzied round of negotiations during which it was believed that the Renamo leader was encouraged to sign the accord by the South African government and by Roland " Tiny " Rowland , the chief executive of the UK-based multinational Lonrho who had played a key role in the negotiations process [ see p. 39039 ] . |
| 10 | The occasion of this denunciation was the annual meeting in Venice this October of the twenty international private societies for the safeguarding of the city , at which it was announced that they , on the other hand , had spent £750,000 of privately raised money . |
| 11 | I read a short news item in which it was announced that Justine had been hanged the previous Saturday , the 24th , after several postponements of the event . |
| 12 | In December the State Council held a national planning conference at which it was announced that there would be no change in the rural household contract system , the enterprise contract system , the factory director responsibility system , the development of the private and collective sectors , local government financial autonomy , or special policies for Special Economic Zones and coastal regions . |
| 13 | Delegates voted on the nominations in a secret ballot on the morning of July 13 , as a result of which it was announced that every candidate had won an absolute majority of votes . |
| 14 | Emburey 's last Test was against Australia at Old Trafford in 1989 , the game in which it was announced that he was among 16 rebels who had decided to tour South Africa and accept an international ban . |
| 15 | However it is not the distance , but the conditions under which it was achieved that set this dive apart . |
| 16 | Of such undertakings all that can be predicated is that some breaches will and others will not , give rise to an event which will deprive the party not in default of substantially the whole benefit which it was intended that he should obtain from the contract ; and the legal consequences of a breach of such an undertaking , unless provided for expressly in the contract , depend upon the nature of the event to which the breach gives rise and do not follow automatically from a prior classification of the undertaking as a " condition " or a " warranty " . |
| 17 | How could this right of election be anything other than a fiction if the breach of the term in all circumstances deprives the innocent party of substantially the whole benefit which it was intended that he should receive ? |
| 18 | The number of ‘ true cases of cattle theft ’ , that is the number of cases known to the authorities less those in which it was determined that no crime had been committed , declined in the Southern and Western Provinces from 1,160 in 1908 to 394 in 1914 . |
| 19 | Provision is made for the election of members of a new divisional board , either at the meeting at which it was determined that a new division should be established or at the first meeting thereafter . |
| 20 | Provision is made for the election of members of a new divisional board , either at the meeting at which it was determined that a new division should be established or at the first meeting thereafter . |
| 21 | Since the book went to press there has been Smith v. Schofield , in which it was said that seventeen pages of algebra used to show the consequences of one construction of a tax Act should have been proved by an expert witness and not merely put before the judge ; this does raise sharply the difference between argument and evidence . |
| 22 | The condition may be upheld if the plaintiff had previously disclosed his reports or offered to disclose them in exchange for the defendant 's reports ( Clarke v Martlew [ 1973 ] QB 58 ) but even that is in doubt since Megarity v DJ Ryan & Sons Ltd [ 1980 ] 2 All ER 832 in which it was said that the plaintiff can not make it a condition precedent to granting a medical examination that the defendant must produce the ensuing report , since to do so would pre-empt the court 's power to give directions as to expert evidence . |
| 23 | It is in fact this object ( literariness ) and the way in which it was defined that guarantees the coherence of the science . |
| 24 | ( 3 ) Allowing the appeal ( Lord Griffiths dissenting ) , that in view of the terms of the letter from the Crown Prosecution Service , in which it was accepted that the order restricted them to utilising material already collected or independently gathered , and the safeguards contained in paragraph 33 of Buckley J. 's order , the compliance with the order for disclosure would not create any real danger for the defendants of prejudice in criminal proceedings ( post , pp. 353G–H , 354A–B , 358G–H , 359C–E , 360A , 362G–H , 364E–H ) . |
| 25 | The decade ahead was one in which it was projected that there would be no growth in the Department of Health and Social Security 's annual allocation to the NETRHA . |
| 26 | A meeting of the workers was called in the locker room by the shop steward at which it was decided that no one would return to the contaminated area . |
| 27 | For example , the decision in Paris v. Stepney BC , in which it was decided that the employer of a one-eyed motor mechanic had a special duty of care to provide him with goggles to protect his good eye , may have had the perhaps unexpected and certainly undesired consequence of making it harder for disabled workers to get jobs in which they need special protection . |
| 28 | Green Realignment , a splinter group from the British Green Party , has held its inaugural conference , at which it was decided that the group would aim to steer a middle course between acting as a political party and as a pressure group . |
| 29 | After an initial two nights in the sleep laboratory in which it was confirmed that he was continuously awake , he returned with his wife for a five-night stay . |
| 30 | Fritz Leiber once wrote a terrific book called Conjure Wife , in which it was revealed that all women were witches . |