Example sentences of "that it continued " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know , for instance , from Pepys ' Diary that it continued to be possible to exchange coins of the Commonwealth for three months after their demonetisation by Charles II . |
| 2 | The Tribunal found , however , that no employee had ever been told that the practice could result in dismissal and the practice had continued , although management trying to impose the change may not have been aware that it continued . |
| 3 | So effective was hegemony around the poor law that it continued throughout the preindustrial period and the period of rapid growth . |
| 4 | In an ideal situation , the ball might approach the dent in such a way that it continued to go round and round it in a circle — rather like the Earth goes round the Sun . |
| 5 | To the last , Foucault himself remained suspicious of any ‘ progressive politics , if that meant that it continued to be linked to a ( hidden ) meaning , origin , or the subject . |
| 6 | His aim was thus to keep the Herbert hegemony intact , while ensuring that it continued to be used in the royal interest . |
| 7 | As for the second charge , that democracy , perhaps like British liberty in the nineteenth century , was parasitic upon empire , A.H.M. Jones points out that it continued to operate in the fourth century , after the loss of empire , and , indeed , was if anything more expensive then than before , since it was then that payment for attendance at the assembly was added to payment for other public duties . |
| 8 | Until comparatively recently there was a general belief or tacit agreement within the community that the later years of life were a time of " all passion spent " — that sex stopped or should stop with the menopause in women and that it continued into later years only in old men who were awarded the epithet " dirty " . |
| 9 | It saw little more than arguments over who had done most to break the 1975 Final Act ; but the fact that it continued to meet held out the hope of more fruitful conversations in future . |
| 10 | Decision : the aggravating features of the offence were the age of the victim ( 61 ) , the fact that as a taxi driver he was vulnerable and an easy target ; the isolated location in which the offence was committed ; the degree of violence and the fact that it continued after the theft had been completed ; the fact that the victim had been left , so far as the offenders were aware , unconscious , and the fact that two men were involved , and an implement may have been used . |
| 11 | It will be observed that in those cases there was no statutory period after cessation of trade during which jurisdiction continued , and the court was therefore faced with a stark choice between saying that the jurisdiction ceased immediately active trade was suspended , or saying that it continued until the business had actually been wound up by payment of the debts . |
| 12 | If we group together all the industries that were predominantly in public ownership on the departure of the Labour government , we find that their total employment was thrown into decline in the North from 1978 to 1981 , but that it continued to grow in the South . |
| 13 | Our subsequent contacts with school staff in the city indicated that the legacy was a powerful and often negative one , and that it continued to be reinforced because despite a general loosening of LEA control and a government-sponsored shift to a greater measure of school self-determination , the Authority was perceived by schools as continuing to present itself as the main definer and arbiter of good practice . |
| 14 | Continuing anti-US feeling in Iran and the associated strength of the radical Islamic political forces resulted from the US refusal to make a more comprehensive effort to compensate Iran for the shooting down of an Iranian airbus in the Gulf by the USS Vincennes warship in July 1988 [ see pp. 36169-70 ] , and from the fact that it continued to hold , according to official Iranian estimates , some $12,000 million in assets frozen since the 1979 Iranian revolution [ for agreement in November 1989 to release assets see p. 37053 ] . |
| 15 | His aim was thus to keep the Herbert hegemony intact , while ensuring that it continued to be used in the royal interest . |