Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [noun] that it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Birdie Mac in the sweet shop told people that it took a great amount of faith these days to realise that God was fair-minded . |
| 2 | The USSR must not be given the chance to persuade Germans that it had more to offer than the West on the subject of unification and neutralization . |
| 3 | On Dec. 12 the Punjab provincial government denied reports that it had recommended that remarks about Pakistan published in a book by a UK journalist should be punished by death . |
| 4 | If Scotland were to have a Parliament with tax-raising powers , it could of course raise taxes that it wanted to raise , but the people of Scotland should be aware that there would then be no capping and no one to protect them from excessive expenditure decided by Strathclyde or Lothian . |
| 5 | Hewlett-Packard Co accompanied news that it had made $261m net profit for its fiscal first quarter ( a decline of 21% before a big accounting charge last time ) with news that it cut 1,700 jobs worldwide during the period . |