Example sentences of "[that] mrs thatcher [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The firm message from Whitehall last night was that Mrs Thatcher was not going to the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Kuala Lumpur next week to propose a reduction in sanctions , although she would not agree to an increase in the measures already in place . |
| 2 | However , continuity also meant that Mrs Thatcher was in a minority over some policy battles in the new Cabinet . |
| 3 | These eminent figures from the age of consensus felt that Mrs Thatcher was betraying their ‘ One Nation ’ legacy . |
| 4 | It was no secret that Mrs Thatcher was unenthusiastic about the appointment in 1983 of Mr Bernard Weatherill , who has just retired . |
| 5 | It also meant that Mrs Thatcher was going to be away in Paris at the summit meeting in the crucial final days before the first ballot . |
| 6 | It was funny to hear Sir Bernard Ingham telling us on that delayed programme about the recession , which Samir Shah so bravely defended , that Mrs Thatcher was too nice to sack people ( bless you , Bernard , she got through more company than Sweeney Todd ) . |
| 7 | Did you get the impression that Mrs Thatcher was really serious about getting the collection ? |
| 8 | We have lived through the world 's worst famine for a decade ; accepted passively , pictures of Ethiopian toddlers , bloated and matchstick thin ; the tragedy at the Heysel Stadium and the Hillsborough disaster , experienced the bitterest industrial dispute in Britain since The War ; remember the IRA morning at Brighton that Mrs Thatcher was not meant to see ; the mental picture of Mrs Indira Gandhi on her funeral pyre ; the young policewoman gunned to death by a Libyan in St. James 's Square , London ; human barbarities in the South African townships ; the earthquake in Mexico City ; West Indians savaging England by 5 Tests to 0 ; the current loss of the Ashes to Australia ; Torvill and Dean taking ice dancing to new heights ; Britain 's Olympic team returning from Los Angeles with five gold medals , 11 silver and 21 bronze ; Cambridge cox sinking the boat before the race had started ; Boris Becker becoming the youngest , at 17 , to win the Wimbledon title ; England 's trouncing of Australia 3-1 in the Test series ; Bob Geldof transformed from Boomtown Rat to world-famous humanitarian ; Sandy Lyle becoming the first Briton since 1969 to win The Open . |