Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] [that] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Responding to the disclosures , the ANC said that the government 's admission that it had funded Inkatha to pursue anti-ANC activities threatened the peace process . |
| 2 | It had been extensively rewritten by Robert , who was now so good at doing Mafouz 's handwriting that it had affected his ability to reproduce his own signature convincingly . |
| 3 | In response , Pat Arbor , the chairman of the Board of Trade , said it was not the exchange 's fault that it had been duped by Stotler 's doctored financial records . |
| 4 | Think it was with a bit of Ellie 's assistance that it got made like that . |
| 5 | Hunt told Hall 's Committee that it occupied seventeen different buildings of which seven were requisitioned during the war . |
| 6 | Ruling that the UK had breached international agreements , the judges dismissed the British government 's contention that it had not had enough time to meet standards set in 1975 . |
| 7 | It was when he had pictured Morpurgo in his mind 's eye that it had occurred to him : such a trivial matter , yet nonetheless not right , not right at all — surely he must be mistaken . |
| 8 | The wind suddenly seemed to have grown much colder , striking so fiercely against Jinny 's cheek that it numbed it . |
| 9 | The other interesting news was Norsk Hydro 's announcement that it planned to buy DnC 's 9 per cent stake in Saga Petroleum . |
| 10 | Former Cray Research Inc chairman John Rollwagen has withdrawn his name from further consideration for the number two post at the US Commerce Department after the Securities & Exchange Commission asked him to participate in an insider trading probe centring on sale of shares in Cray Computer Corp ahead of that company 's announcement that it had lost its only Cray 3 order . |
| 11 | A second round of talks between the government and the ANC in early August was followed by the ANC 's announcement that it had decided to suspend its armed struggle ; all activities by the ANC 's military wing , Umkhonto we Sizwe , would cease . |
| 12 | During his summing up , Mr Justice Henry had instructed the jury to reject Saunders 's claim that it had been a " victimless crime " because no-one appeared to have lost money through it . |
| 13 | It described as exaggerated the FMLN 's claim that it controlled 5,000 sq km of territory — a quarter of the country . |
| 14 | The Brotherhood said after al-Masri 's appointment that it did not wish to participate in a government likely to make territorial concessions to Israel . |
| 15 | Vinelott J rejected the SFO 's argument that it had an untrammelled right to require the production and use of the evidence in the transcript ; that argument had been advanced and rejected when the liquidators applied for an order to examination ( In re Arrows Ltd [ 1992 ] 2 WLR 923 ) . |
| 16 | They claimed that the ruling nullified the government 's argument that it had no liability for the death of the Palestinian because it was an act of war , and that it effectively restored the government 's response to the intifada to the status of a police operation . |
| 17 | She had been so engrossed in Martha 's life that it had not even crossed her mind that she ( Maxine ) should be frightened of that great expanse of water . |
| 18 | AFIRM of auctioneers which sold two oil paintings for £840 five months before the works fetched £88,000 at Sotheby 's after being attributed to the 18th century master , George Stubbs , won its appeal yesterday against a judge 's ruling that it had been negligent . |
| 19 | The British critic Bryher regarded the film as ‘ the first authentic comment on the War ’ , praised particularly the depiction of enlistment , and poured scorn on those other British critics who had disliked the film 's suggestion that it had been America who had won the war . |
| 20 | Casting aside Pennzoil 's claims that it had no intention of launching a bid , Chevron moved into top gear to protect itself against a takeover which could be worth $35billion and would revive memories of some of the biggest corporate battles of the 1970 's and 80's . |
| 21 | The bank also denies last year 's claims that it had signed a major deal with IBM to supply RS6000s ( UX No 323 ) , saying that it was only ‘ evaluating ’ the IBM equipment . |
| 22 | In summary , his view that the State was the instrument through which the dialectic operated was evidently right ; and Marx 's view that it operated through class warfare as evidently wrong . |
| 23 | He realized from Carolyn 's face that it did . |
| 24 | We know , for instance , from Pepys ' Diary that it continued to be possible to exchange coins of the Commonwealth for three months after their demonetisation by Charles II . |
| 25 | The French Finance Minister , Pierre Bérégovoy , said , however , that Poland would not get the 80 per cent write-offs that it had asked for . |
| 26 | Conversely , if the project fails there is a 0·2 chance that the additional research supported it and a 0·8 chance that it did not . |
| 27 | This means that , should the project have a successful outcome , there is a 0·9 chance that the additional research supported this outcome and 0·1 chance that it did not . |