Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb past] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the treaties with the States-General of 1654 and 1667 the English government succeeded in having its claims accepted by its rival ; and so sensible a man as Sir William Temple felt that nothing had ever given him greater pleasure than forcing the Dutch to give way once more on this point in the peace negotiations of 1674 . |
| 2 | However , during the discussions Shamir insisted that he needed another two weeks in order to reach a final decision . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Defence counsel contended that its only effect on any but a minute lunatic fringe of readers would be horror , revulsion and pity . |
| 5 | In one case , it was said that ‘ it was the 15-year-old girl who was the dominant partner in the relationship ’ with a 28-year-old woman separated from her husband , while in the other case ‘ a pretty 15-year-old schoolgirl skipped lessons to have a lesbian love affair ’ ; however the defence counsel said that her mother had told police she thought there was nothing wrong with a lesbian relationship and ‘ if it had not been for the age of the young lady , none of us would be here today ’ . |
| 6 | Beatrice Webb recorded that she had been told by both a working class male school attendance officer and by the female manager of a block of ‘ model dwellings ’ that working class women were not able to talk to their husbands , having little in their heads but household details . |
| 7 | And the flamboyant Chelsea chairman announced that his 11-year marriage to wife Pam is over . |
| 8 | In July 1990 , for example , many arbitrageurs who had written futures contracts to buy FTSE 100 Index futures found that they were short of the FTSE contract close to the expiry deadline , and so attempted to reduce share prices to reduce the value of the index . |
| 9 | Mr Justice Morland said that whatever the outcome of this case , the progress she 's made in her legal career represents a remarkable achievement . |
| 10 | Bradshaw and Millar found that about two-thirds ( 62 per cent ) of lone mothers on income support said that they did not want to work immediately although they would want to work in the future . |
| 11 | Herr Nordern insisted that he should drive Erika and Omi at least to the S-Bahn station and stood with them until the train came , then , shaking his head , he handed Omi into a carriage . |
| 12 | Despite its failure , the CAFFE trial showed that there was a need for an aid to diagnosticians . |
| 13 | A qualified nurse Pamela Armstrong said that she and two other woman had been running a stall in the Bootle Strand shopping centre . |
| 14 | However , Stewart Ritchie suggested that there was certainly no need to panic but instead individuals should continue to monitor their fund 's growth and perhaps in the future increase contributions if there is a potential shortfall . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Interfax reported on Oct. 11 that the Azerbaijani Defence Ministry admitted that its forces had been forced to withdraw from positions in the area , |
| 17 | The withdrawal had been temporarily suspended on Oct. 21 after the Russian Defence Ministry warned that there were no facilities to rehouse the soldiers in Russia . |
| 18 | Finally , the village case study revealed that none of the village practitioners were in favour of promoting the LGS message . |
| 19 | Welford Beaton thought that its examination of the progress of cotton from field to factory would be of great educational value and he urged distributors to put the film into every motion-picture theatre in the world . |
| 20 | In that same year Welford Beaton argued that it was people like clerks who made up the bulk of the great movie audience and that they went to the cinema for inspiration . |
| 21 | 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' . |
| 22 | Our modern picture of the universe dates back to only 1924 , when the American astronomer Edwin Hubble demonstrated that ours was not the only galaxy . |
| 23 | Although his plans for political and economic reform had yet to be clarified , supporters of Ben Bella believed that he was the only politician capable of ending the social polarization caused by FLN economic policies and the growing appeal of Islamic fundamentalism , as demonstrated in June municipal elections [ see pp. 37549-50 ] . |
| 24 | The uncertainty was fuelled further when Larne boss Gary Irwin admitted that he thought the goal had been disallowed for a foul on goalkeeper Graeme McConnell . |
| 25 | PRI political secretary Giorgio La Malfa claimed that he had been misled over the Cabinet posts by Andreotti " who I thought was a man of quality " . |
| 26 | To take a specific example , Lemert 's ( 1958 ) study of cheque forgers found that they had not , typically , associated with other cheque forgers or people favourably disposed towards it ; cheque forgery had not been handed down from some primeval inventor . |
| 27 | As he plunged his fork into the confection Therese reflected that it was very difficult not to like a man who enjoyed life as much as Willi Zimmermann . |
| 28 | Dr David Kessler , commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration said that his agency , the Environmental Protection Agency , and the Department of Agriculture will for the first time make a concerted effort to ‘ create incentives for the development of safe pesticides and to remove those pesticides that pose the greatest risk ’ . |
| 29 | Our multiethnic area has the highest rate of termination of pregnancy , and a literature search showed that we needed to commission research to identify AfroCaribbeans ' perceptions of family planning . |
| 30 | Maj. Botha believed that it was of " cardinal importance " that the rally should prove a success and that a " donation " should be made to Inkatha to finance it . |