Example sentences of "[adj] and that there [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As their Lordships understand their reasoning , it was that the two sales were not legally interdependent and that there was no evidence to support the judge 's finding that the Perots had a special interest in buying the two adjoining properties . |
| 2 | The latter point was silly , coming from a man who has spent much of the last five years persuading his party that the world had changed since May 1979 and that there was no going back . |
| 3 | This , together with the fact that his people were more settled and therefore accessible and that there was the possibility of running a lineage bank account , all served to reinforce the position of the shaikhs . |
| 4 | The House of Lords Select Committee concluded that MAFF and DoE 's narrow view is unnecessary and that there was no legal impediment to a more liberal application of the Directive . |
| 5 | It suggested that standards of recruitment and discipline appeared to be rather low and that there was a reluctance to scrutinise service delivery . |
| 6 | A British Trade and Industry Minister , Kenneth Clarke , argued that Hermes ( the French-inspired shuttle project ) was too costly and that there was no commercial demand for manned space flights . |
| 7 | Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone , LC , said that the question was whether a parental veto came within the band of possible reasonable decisions and not whether it was right or mistaken and that there was a band of decisions within which the court should seek to replace the individual 's judgment with his own . |
| 8 | This was a means of seeing whether they looked well and that there was proper control of their curfew . |
| 9 | Despite our firm statements to the effect that the list was purely illustrative and that there were no doubt omissions , media attention centred on this list to the detriment of the other , more important recommendations in the Report . |
| 10 | However , ‘ riots ’ before and after the Leeds United match at Bournemouth in May 1990 , which resulted in 120 arrests , suggested that football hooliganism had far from disappeared and that there was still no basis for complacency . |
| 11 | Xinhua reported that one person was killed and 13 injured and that there were 100 " troublemakers " ( including 30 lamas and nuns ) and 10,000 onlookers . |
| 12 | But the three-man tribunal of legal experts from France , Greece and The Netherlands did admit that the punishment had been too harsh and that there were mitigating circumstances . |
| 13 | I gathered , however , that they expected it to continue to get worse and that there was nothing they could do except give me vitamins . |
| 14 | Natasha knew her friend was only being kind and that there was no dig behind the remark . |
| 15 | One article in particular , from a writer I 've never heard of before , stated that the course was dull and boring and that there was no great degree of difficulty . |
| 16 | Lord Hailsham held that the mental element required for rape was intent and that there was ample authority in support of this proposition . |
| 17 | I can only assume that , as the matter was extensively discussed earlier , they thought that the issue was dead and that there was no point in discussing it , because the arguments had been so effectively canvassed and dismissed that the Government would not contemplate introducing such an offence . |
| 18 | He had said that it was neither functional nor aesthetically pleasing and that there was death-watch beetle in the roof . |