Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [that] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colin insists that they had expected the ensuing fuss . |
| 2 | ABOUT 15 YEARS ago the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum announced that he had discovered a new personality type — the compulsive programmer . |
| 3 | At 3pm on Tuesday , the first closing date , the Dragon board announced that it had received acceptances from 750 shareholders in respect of 39.71 per cent of Drayton Asia 's issued share capital . |
| 4 | Doubtless ICI thinks that it has provided a good home for those stripped assets . |
| 5 | On April 8 Tudjman announced that he had received assurances from the JNA leadership that the JNA would not interfere in the settlement of the political crisis , but on April 11 the Croatian government announced the establishment of a de facto republican army in the form of a Croatian National Guard Corps . |
| 6 | For Jim revealed that he has married Sara twice . |
| 7 | On June 25 a number of Kurdish deputies announced that they had formed the Freedom and Labour Party ( OZEP ) . |
| 8 | The midwife toad came to public notice when , in the early years of this century , the Austrian biologist Paul Kammerer announced that he had persuaded the toads to breed once more in water and that , as a consequence of this , they had re-evolved nuptial pads . |
| 9 | Looks as if the message that an army of outsiders is needed to turn IBM Corp 's disparate businesses around is beginning to get through : yesterday the Personal Software Products division announced that it had recalled William Rich to be general manager , worldwide sales and marketing — he had left the company but had been acting as a consultant to it ; it has also tapped David Proctor as vice-president of products — Proctor is formerly president of Xerox Computer Services and had been president and chief executive of Ashton-Tate Corp ; before he took that position , he had served 23 years with IBM . |
| 10 | Mr Engholm admitted that he had lied in 1987 to a committee investigating a dirty-tricks campaign mounted against him by the Christian Democrats . |
| 11 | The Democratic incumbent , Richard M. Daley , was re-elected Mayor of Chicago on April 1 , with unofficial returns suggesting that he had received 73 per cent of the vote . |
| 12 | The only other comment I had in terms of the scale of settlement , which I think is just touching upon the next point , is that , I mean depending on the conclusions you reach as to the the amount of housing to be provided for in a new settlement , I take the point that Mr Brighton made that you 've got to have a longer term perspective I think that he f that in the ten year period ninety six to two thousand and six that the new settlements to be brought forward during , erm I think it 's really unrealistic to achieve more than twelve fifty , fourteen hundred houses in that period , if you say reach a conclusion there should be two thousand houses in that period in a new settlement , there might be some benefit in having two settlements , each of a capacity of say twelve fifty , f for erm twelve fifty to fifteen hundred that can have capacity for the next plan period , and in other words to assist in meeting the constraints that exist on York that are likely to exist into the future . |
| 13 | The French Ministry of Defence announced that it had exploded a 35-kiloton nuclear device on Mururoa Atoll on July 5 , 1990 , the fourth such test since June 1989 . |
| 14 | Her description was so detailed and precise that experts agreed that she had seen the eagle . |
| 15 | Kohl and the French President François Mitterrand had already appealed for emergency aid when they met in Assmannshausen on June 22 , and on the same day West Germany announced that it had agreed to guarantee a DM5,000 million ( approximately US$2,980 million ) loan to the Soviet Union . ) |
| 16 | In the letter of resignation which he conveyed to the Constitutional Council on Jan. 11 , Chadli revealed that he had dissolved ( on Jan. 4 as it later transpired ) by presidential decree the National Popular Assembly . |
| 17 | On May 2 the Defence Ministry announced that it had cancelled measures encouraging mainland Chinese soldiers to defect to Taiwan by offering gold or cash rewards . |
| 18 | After hearing the evidence , the Tribunale Penale di Roma found that they had obtained the drugs from Hurley for the purpose of entrapping Italian nationals , among them Mario Cetera , the husband of Joan Schumacher , American heiress to the Prentice Hall publishing fortune . |
| 19 | In spite of official acceptance of the suggested reforms by both government and the Civil Service , various examinations into the implementation of the proposals suggest that they have had very little real effect . |
| 20 | When I heard recently on the radio that he had been arrested in Tasmania the wild fancy occurred that someone had forgotten to de-miniaturise him and that he had finally worked his way through to Australia . |
| 21 | When bad times came and wages were below the level on which they could support their families , the labourers found that they had to ask the authorities of the parish in which they lived for relief ; in other words they became paupers , who could be sent to the workhouse . |
| 22 | Major J. W. Pringle reported that he had examined the car and found that the body had separated from the truck and there were a number of deep chips on the outside edges of the tyres of the wheels . |
| 23 | It was certainly better than the sandwich and a can of beer that she 'd expected ; if this had been the late and unlamented Eddie she 'd probably have been faced with a walk to the nearest carry-out to find that he 'd finished off the beer in her absence . |
| 24 | The Board reported that it had established management objectives and expressed confidence that the introduction of new management techniques , in many cases building on work in hand , would lead to significant improvements in the speed and quality of service and efficiency . |
| 25 | On Nov. 29 the Air Force announced that it had selected six new bases for the mobile MX missile in the states of Arkansas , Louisiana , Michigan , North Dakota , Texas and Washington . |
| 26 | He laughed with forced heartiness , as limping badly he began to walk along the corridor , leading the way , and Hari realized that he had used the laugh many times to conceal his true feelings . |
| 27 | In December , the World Food Programme announced that it had reached an agreement with the government and the EPLF to reopen the port [ see p. 37907 ] . |
| 28 | Writing about this film thirty years later John Clellan Holmes recalled how as an adolescent he had been initiated into manhood by the momentary revelation of ‘ the soft , white trembling curve of Jean Harlow 's breast ’ , but even at the time Welford Beaton argued that it had succeeded at the box-office because more than any other picture we have had , it demonstrates that the true mission of the screen is to supply visual entertainment' . |
| 29 | Richard admitted that he had listened to the advice of people who were deliberately trying to sow dissension between them . |
| 30 | Ambitious Toronto-based systems integrator and facilities manager SHL Systemhouse Inc on Friday announced that it had signed a letter of intent to buy City of London-based banking and financial services systems company AST Trans-Act Ltd . |