Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [subord] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It quoted Brazil 's National Institute for Research as calculating that 120,300 square miles of forest had been destroyed in the years leading up to 1989 . |
| 2 | This was taken by a number of experts as showing that earlier estimates had been purposely conservative and that ultimately there will turn out to be far more oil in the North Sea than currently estimated . |
| 3 | Thus : are we to read ‘ solely ’ the property of shareholders as implying that it is in fact that , or can be , someone else 's property ? |
| 4 | The article also quotes a source at the Ministry of Industry as saying that the government wants the spin-off , with corporate outside investors for the new entity , adding that , although the government is not opening up France Telecom 's capital to outside investors , ‘ nothing prohibits the privatisation of its subsidiaries . ’ |
| 5 | Yet we can not see this relative lack of effect as indicating that there is no desire for change . |
| 6 | Rather than maintain that the situation was unsatisfactory and needed diversion of energy into this area , there was a tendency to see any admission of failure as indicating that the whole area should disappear . |
| 7 | Senior management were too easily satisfied that the Permit to Work system was being operated correctly , relying on the absence of any feedback of problems as indicating that all was well . |
| 8 | Male behaviour is so normative that we ordinarily think of celibacy as meaning that men are to leave women alone , rather than seeing it as a positive step women take to make a non sexually-active community together . |
| 9 | The Independent of April 27 quoted the Minister of State as saying that the Islamic Law bills would seek to prevent a woman becoming Prime Minister . |
| 10 | I could do little to help in this experience of childbirth except to urge that the mother should be kept in her rough bed on the floor and given proper nourishment . |
| 11 | Giles recalls one remark when Montini was criticizing the De Gasperi Christian Democratic government for inaction while denying that he was doing anything of the kind ( a typical Montini ploy ) : ‘ In political questions the Church has to be general , just as in religious matters she can not afford not to be particular ’ ( ibid. , p. 109 ) . |
| 12 | The annex to the circular also highlights four important issues related to the local arrangements for care programming : inter-professional working , involving patients and carers , keeping in touch with patients while ensuring that services are provided , and the role of key workers . |
| 13 | These changes and realizations , he credited to his experiences with LSD though conceded that it might not work for others in the same way . |
| 14 | The sting of this question was to some extent drawn for Schleiermacher himself by the fact that he so closely identified immediate self-consciousness with God-consciousness as to believe that he had found a real and solid bridge between the two sides of the matter . |
| 15 | But the Bemba language translator used the word ukubstanduka , which means ‘ to boycott them ’ , so that Kaunda was quoted in Bemba as saying that Zambians should shun or have nothing to do with Britons in Zambia . |
| 16 | With the minimum of props and the only gesture being a raised paw , he asked for the money for a cup of coffee , guv , sported a patch over one eye concealing a wound sustained in the service of his country , at the same time dragging a wooden leg fitted during the retreat from Moscow while maintaining that he had a bitch and five pups to support and did not know where his next meal was coming from . |
| 17 | On July 8 he was quoted in Berne as saying that he was still awaiting a response from opposition groups . |
| 18 | On Nov. 12 Japanese Foreign Ministry officials said to be concerned about alienating international opinion were quoted in Tokyo as saying that they would press the government " to think carefully about our future plans " to transport more plutonium to Japan over the next decade . |
| 19 | On Dec. 26 the Iraqi News Agency ( INA ) quoted a UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) spokesman in Baghdad as saying that " the justifications for maintaining economic sanctions against Iraq no longer existed " . |
| 20 | Reports on June 12 quoted diplomats in Kinshasa as saying that Zaïre , long a covert trading partner of South Africa , was establishing diplomatic relations with South Africa and that an ambassador had been appointed . |
| 21 | On Dec. 4 Koirala had been quoted in Katmandu as saying that Nepal would not allow its territory to be used as bases by activists from the Indian states of Punjab , Kashmir and Assam . |
| 22 | We looked in vain in Siemens AG 's first half report on Monday for any mention of its Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG computer subsidiary , and with all the dreadful economic news coming out of Germany , it began to assume the air of the dog that did n't bark : Siemens said of its overall business that it did not show any revival in the first half , and that continued economic decline affected domestic business and led to a decline in incoming orders , and there was no recovery in its foreign business ; laying it on with a trowel , Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's leading economic advisor was quoted on Tuesday as saying that German workers failed to recognise the danger of high wages in a time of recession , and that German products were too expensive for world markets as wage increases outpaced growth in productivity , and earlier , Siemens Nixdorf had had to rebut a magazine report that its losses would be even worse this year , saying that it was certain that its results would improve this fiscal year ; the article , in Manager Magazin , also said that Siemens was looking for a replacement for Siemens Nixdorf management board chairman Hans-Dieter Wiedig , and added that plans to reduce the workforce to 41,000 by 1995 from 47,200 at the end of February could well be accelerated . |
| 23 | Cumberland was on record as believing that a battle without a cannonade was like a dance without music and Culloden began as a gunners ’ battle . |
| 24 | Even if that is not the whole truth , — clearly , the government has a crucial say -Mr de Klerk has gone on record as recognising that Mr Mandela has leverage in government decisions . |
| 25 | The Royal College of Physicians has gone on record as stating that ‘ there are reasonable grounds for the statement that , in genetically susceptible persons , large bowel cancer could be favoured by a fibre-depleted diet ’ . |
| 26 | President Houphouet Boigny , of Ivory Coast , is on record as saying that a minister who can not enrich himself is not worth his salt . |
| 27 | SIR — Even his political opponents are on record as saying that John Major is a decent chap . |
| 28 | Meanwhile the debate on whether to replace mercury amalgam fillings continues — the American Dental Association has gone on record as saying that dentists who recommend replacing fillings may do so because of the often hefty fees they can charge for the work . |
| 29 | At the University of Loughborough there were several people who went on record as saying that you could always get a laugh out of Henry . |
| 30 | Admirers of Edison 's tinfoil phonograph are on record as saying that it was impossible to tell the difference between the recording and the original . |