Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clerk argued that it was not a " competent application " . |
| 2 | Lange admitted that he had " been over a barrel " after the French government had threatened that unless the accord was accepted , New Zealand would be denied access to French markets for its agricultural exports , the mainstay of its economy , |
| 3 | The jeep was gone and the dust had settled , surely the driver realised that dust-raising meant instant reaction from the Germans with shelling and heavy mortaring of the area and the inevitable casualties . |
| 4 | ‘ The Community proposals mean that one out of ten farmers set aside land in the rest of Europe compared to six out of ten in the UK . |
| 5 | The proposals mean that joint local planning and action will continue to be essential , but that responsibilities and accountability for the plans and action will be clearer than they are now … it must be emphasised that effective co-operation at the local level will be essential , both to the success of individual projects and , more broadly , if the whole range of community care services is to be delivered effectively . |
| 6 | The proposals mean that , for the first time , parents can name their preference for a school , including ordinary ones — and backed up by a new appeal system . |
| 7 | Subodh Kant Sahay , Minister of State for Home Affairs , in a statement on Jan. 2 to the Indian parliament announced that 890 people had been killed and nearly 4,000 injured in 15 weeks of Hindu-Moslem riots triggered by Hindu agitation around the disputed sacred site where a mosque currently stood in Ayodhya , Uttar Pradesh . |
| 8 | Parliament announced that it would hold an emergency debate on the accidents . |
| 9 | The award guarantees that the candidate is competent in a significant range of work activities . |
| 10 | Olive Maguiness argued that the scholarship system itself was dysgenic because of its effects on social mobility ; she wrote that the bright members of the working class were removed from their environment , which encouraged fertility , and encouraged to defer child-bearing in favour of career . |
| 11 | Further investigations revealed that the platypus 's electric sensors lie within its bill , probably in glands which secrete a fluid to stop the sensors drying out on land . |
| 12 | The investigations revealed that there were , in fact , no clear trends . |
| 13 | The chair of the US House of Representatives banking committee stated on Feb. 3 that investigations revealed that 13 US firms had knowingly or unknowingly participated in the Iraqi nuclear weapons programme prior to the invasion of Kuwait , despite an administration report in autumn 1991 to the contrary . |
| 14 | When the Assembly closed the story goes that they found hundreds of dead Indians behind the screen . |
| 15 | The story goes that when the House of Commons was discussing this issue , a leading politician was heard to exclaim : ‘ If the Book of Common prayer was good enough for St Paul , it is good enough for me ! ‘ |
| 16 | The journalist Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd , continuing his indefatigable quest for the ancien régime , identified a clutch of MPs who owned country houses , including Paul Channon and Mark Lennox-Boyd of the Guinness dynasty ( the story goes that when Channon was selected for his seat in Southend , which had been represented by the family since 1912 , local advertising hoardings were proclaiming ‘ Have Another Guinness ! ’ ) . |
| 17 | The story goes that in September 1665 a parcel of cloth arrived in Eyam from London , where the plague was then rife , and infected the villagers . |
| 18 | The story goes that Wenceslas wished to prove his queen was guilty of adultery and Nepomuk , as the queen 's confessor , denied that she was . |
| 19 | He was also a vegetarian , although the story goes that Chapman persuaded him to eat steaks after hearing that he sometimes felt faint when heading a ball . |
| 20 | The story goes that one dismal morning they were detailed to take their Mosquito , ‘ D ’ for Dog , up for testing , and as there had been quite a party in the Mess on the previous evening , neither was feeling in the best of moods as they trudged out to dispersal at the crack of dawn . |
| 21 | The story goes that it was a very merry party — maybe they were celebrating being able to get in the hay after a bad spell — and they stepped on the bridge to enjoy some music , a very Tallentire thing to do . |
| 22 | The story goes that whilst the Governor General was paying a visit to the camp certain Luftwaffe officers complained of , amongst other grievances , inadequate seating — the lack of chairs . |
| 23 | The story goes that , one day , the goddess was dusting and picked up a ball of lint dropped by a blue humming-bird , placing it inside her apron . |
| 24 | The story goes that , after Wapping , Kinnock treated the Murdoch papers with such disdain that he deserved all he got . |
| 25 | The story goes that he 's fallen out with his friends in the Provos , and he 's either on the run , or they murdered him and dumped the body . |
| 26 | The story goes that , when she was nursing my sister , I said to her , ‘ Put that thing in the pram and come play with me . ’ |
| 27 | The story goes that Blackburn chairman Jack Walker was unimpressed by Thomas 's contribution in the 3–3 draw at Selhurst Park and refused to sign another of his famous cheques with all those zeros . |
| 28 | The story goes that when Nicholl was explaining a new tactical formation to Cherednik , Gotsmanov had the whole squad rolling around by interrupting : ‘ What time does the coach leave . ’ |
| 29 | The story goes that an angry auto body painter noticed his masking tape only had adhesive along its edges and told the salesman : ‘ Take this tape back to your stingy Scotch bosses and tell them to put more adhesive on it . ’ |
| 30 | The story goes that trains from distant towns had special coaches attached ( or there were even dedicated special trains ) to bring those sentenced to imprisonment for serious offences to Huntsville . |