Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adj] [that] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A majority in the House of Commons fancied that it possessed the training in theology , the experience of ways of worship , and the sensitivity to religious feelings , to tell a Church how it ought to say its prayers . |
| 2 | Transmission across the callosum takes time and necessitates crossing at least one synaptic junction , during which the information is said to undergo some degree of transformation such that it arrives at the second hemisphere in a comparatively degraded state ( McKeever and Huling , 1971a ; Gross , 1972 ; Gibson , Dimond and Gazzaniga , 1972 ) . |
| 3 | The House of Lords held that it did not : since the essence of dangerous driving was negligence , a driver should only be convicted of manslaughter if his driving was so bad as to amount to the gross negligence required under the third head of involuntary manslaughter ( see below ) . |
| 4 | Proceedings in a Dutch court were begun by a document transmitted under the Hague Convention to a local court in Germany which certified under Article 6 that it had not been possible to serve the document . |
| 5 | Despite signs of renewed interest from both Ford and Volkswagen ( keen to re-establish itself as the largest car manufacturer in Europe ) , the British government announced in March 1988 that it intended to pursue a wholly British solution for the remaining parts of Rover by selling it to British Aerospace ( BAe ) . |
| 6 | It was in Meiji 22nd that it became so . |
| 7 | China had announced in November 1990 that it had recently halted such arms supplies [ see p. 37858 ] . |
| 8 | The bank revealed in September 1992 that it had lost more than twice its capital on behalf of a single client because of two foreign exchange dealers in the London branch who acted like ‘ inexperienced gamblers at the roulette table' , according to chairman Sir Charles Fraser . |
| 9 | The IMF announced on March 27 that it had approved a drawing by Israel equivalent to SDR |
| 10 | The Spanish airline Iberia reported on March 22 that it had lost $276,000,000 during the year , and on the same day the Belgian government started a $563,000,000 rescue programme for the troubled national carrier Sabena . |
| 11 | Following the meeting a US military excavation team carried out its first MIA search in Cambodia ; it announced on March 23 that it had recently unearthed some remains which were believed to be of members of US television crews killed in Cambodia in 1970 . |
| 12 | In response the government announced on March 20 that it had transferred money and gold deposits from the New York branch of the Swiss Bank Corporation to the principal bank in the Swiss capital , Berne . |
| 13 | Pan American World Airways , formerly the largest airline in the USA , announced on Jan. 8 that it had filed for protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the US insolvency code , following a long period of almost continuous losses which industry sources put at $3,000 million . |
| 14 | The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ) government announced on Jan. 23 that it had accepted " with only slight amendments " a peace plan to end its 15-year civil war with the National Union for Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) , the US-backed rebel group led by Jonas Savimbi . |
| 15 | The TPLF acknowledged on Jan. 6 that it had staged a " strategic withdrawal " from Debre Tabor . |
| 16 | The government announced on Aug. 1 that it had decided to bring the penal code in line with Islamic law by making the death penalty mandatory for anyone convicted of defaming the Prophet Mohammed . |
| 17 | However , Inravision Television in Bogotá reported on Aug. 13 that it had received a faxed message from the cartel which stated that the truce would remain in force . |
| 18 | The Russian Justice Ministry announced on Aug. 11 that it had annulled the party 's registration , thus denying it legal status . |
| 19 | Iraq announced on Aug. 5 that it had started to withdraw its forces from Kuwait , a claim which prompted US President George Bush publicly to denounce Saddam Hussein as a liar . |
| 20 | The UAE announced on Aug. 19 that it had agreed to the deployment of Arab and other foreign forces . |
| 21 | The SNM had announced on Aug. 6 that it had agreed to join forces with two other guerrilla movements , the United Somali Congress and the Somali Patriotic Movement , in order to overthrow Barre . |
| 22 | The Organization of American States ( OAS ) announced in Washington on Aug. 28 that it had decided to send observers to oversee the elections for a Democratic Constituent Congress ( CCD ) scheduled to be held on Nov. 22 . |
| 23 | The Japanese government confirmed on Sept. 16 that it had lodged a formal diplomatic protest over this decision . |
| 24 | Taiwan announced on Sept. 8 that it had reached an accord with Russia to exchange unofficial representative offices , on the lines of the model used by Japan and the USA for unofficial representation in Taiwan . |
| 25 | The Defence Department announced on Sept. 18 that it proposed to end or reduce operations at 151 military sites in 10 European and Asian countries . |
| 26 | Following an LDP conference , the party leadership announced on Sept. 19 that it planned to break away from the coalition which had backed Aquino . |
| 27 | Although a Jordanian government statement issued on Sept. 23 said that there was no intention of expelling Saudi diplomats , a Foreign Ministry spokeman confirmed on Sept. 25 that it had been decided to recall the ambassador in protest against the expulsions . |
| 28 | China reacted angrily to the US announcement on Sept. 2 that it had agreed to sell 150 F-16 fighter planes to Taiwan [ see this page ] . |
| 29 | The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) said on Sept. 2 that it did not intend to issue " a clean bill of health for Iraq in the nuclear sphere " . |
| 30 | Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said on Sept. 28 that it demonstrated " the commitment of the US administration and President Bush personally to the process of nuclear disarmament " , but added that it was " still premature to assess the whole scope of these proposals " especially as they pertained to cuts elsewhere in Europe . |