Example sentences of "and that there [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a belief backed by the conviction that society was essentially a good order , and that there existed a general professional consensus on the treatment of social ills . |
| 2 | It is possible that they were taken to northern France ( Brittany ) by Cornish refugees about 1,500 years ago and that there continued to be trading between the two regions for several hundred years ; there is certainly a theory that the Breton cattle originated largely in Cornwall . |
| 3 | But he said Yates denied taking steroids and that there had been irregularities in the testing procedures . |
| 4 | There were suggestions that Bond Corporation executives had been under regular surveillance and that there had been interference with telephone communications , Mr Lucas said . |
| 5 | I repeated that I saw ‘ no case for a further round of Beeching cuts ’ and that there had been no secret talks or plans . |
| 6 | People said it was smoothed over , and that there had been adjustments of personnel in the agriculture department . |
| 7 | Sir Ian Gilmour , sacked from the Cabinet in September 1981 , was on both main television news bulletins on 10 January , telling viewers that being a good listener was not one of Mrs Thatcher 's virtues , and that there had been ‘ a downgrading of Cabinet government ’ ; Cabinet meetings were something to be got through , not the place where views were to be aired and decisions reached . |
| 8 | The feedback suggested that attitudes had been changed and that there had been an increase in knowledge and skills . |
| 9 | All three were aware that the King and Queen had , after four years of war , come to represent to their subjects all that was best in the domestic and public virtues , and that there had been current for some time an idea of presenting to them a gift as a mark of national respect , thanks and loyalty . |
| 10 | One of his men had been foolish enough to point out that the Company Captain was unlikely to want to use the cooker and that there had n't been anybody in that cell in all the eight years he 'd been there . |
| 11 | The Home Office originally announced that no prisoners had been injured , but it was finally admitted that 54 had been , and that there had been criminal assaults on prisoners by staff . |
| 12 | On February 21 , 1991 a hearing took place before the justices , in camera , at which it was submitted on the defendant 's behalf that the publication of the prosecution would be a penalty highly prejudicial to the defendant 's business , that the publicity would bring about closure , that the restaurant had strong defences to each summons and that there had been serious breaches of PACE by the investigating officer . |
| 13 | In the court below she had also alleged that her husband was acting not only on his own behalf but as agent for the bank in obtaining her consent , that the bank was negligent and that there had been material misrepresentation , although the latter allegation was not pursued . |
| 14 | At his trial , the judge rejected his submission that there was no case to answer in that the goods had been sold under a contract between the customer and the shop and that there had been no appropriation of property belonging to another . |
| 15 | She 'd called Julie that morning to make sure she was all right , and that there had been no more trouble . |
| 16 | If Eva had any regrets it was that her mother had never been able to put in words just how much she obviously meant to her , and that there had not been more time to spend with her parents over the years . |
| 17 | Following the allegations of fraud in the July 1989 legislative and municipal elections in five states [ see p. 36811 ] an independent tribunal ruled in September that the left-wing nationalist Democratic Revolutionary Party ( Partido de la Revolución Democrática — PRD ) had in fact won 14 of the 18 seats in the state legislature in Michoacán , as opposed to the six initially conceded to the PRD against 12 for the ruling PRI , and that there had been widespread voting irregularities in the other four states . |
| 18 | A report in the Far Eastern Economic Review of Nov. 16 noted that China 's strategic interests in Myanma had " undergone a fundamental change " since the 1970s when China had supported anti-government insurgents operating near the China-Myanma border , and that there had been a shift towards greater economic co-operation . |
| 19 | Prime Minister Rabbie Namaliu insisted , however , that the Commissioner had acted under the influence of alcohol and that there had been no conspiracy . |
| 20 | Some reports indicated that Palestinians in Kuwait had generally opposed the Iraqi invasion and that there had been considerable co-operation between Palestinians and Kuwaitis . |
| 21 | Although Commonwealth observers reported that voting had been free and fair , Mancham said that the poll had been rigged against the Democratic Party , claiming that there had been an " abundant use of state apparatus " in the SPPF campaign and that there had been irregularities in the establishment of the electoral lists , allowing some people to vote more than once . |
| 22 | Frank Almond , Chief Executive of Intermediate Technology , said that Major had " missed the mark in a quite spectacular manner " , and that there had been no apparent attempt to look at what was either affordable or appropriate . |
| 23 | Then she found herself concluding that her earlier assumption had probably been correct and that there had indeed been someone in Australia , someone who had caused him to return to England in a hurry . |
| 24 | The spokesman claimed 200 similar crossings had a good safety record and that there had been no accidents on Seal Sands Road since the crossing opened in the late 1970s . |
| 25 | In that era , notes Forster , if you had ‘ Venetian ’ tendencies , you thought it was because you were meant to be a man and that there had been some mistake . |