Example sentences of "[num] that [pron] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Vietnamese authorities announced on Dec. 2 that they had recently released two political prisoners , Le Thanh Que , a Roman Catholic priest , and Nguyen Chi Thien , a poet . |
| 2 | The United States , which like Germany had hitherto strongly favoured maintaining Yugoslav integrity , made it clear on July 2 that it did not support the use of force to preserve this integrity , and on the same day President Bush indicated in a letter to the recently installed ( Croat ) head of the Collective State Presidency , Stjepan Mesic [ see p. 38275 ] , that it would accept the republics ' independence if achieved peacefully . |
| 3 | The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) said on Sept. 2 that it did not intend to issue " a clean bill of health for Iraq in the nuclear sphere " . |
| 4 | Krupp grew so fast between 1855 and 1866 that he ran out of capital . |
| 5 | Margaret Irwin told the Royal Commission on Labour in 1893 that she did not think many women were " at case " outside Edinburgh . " |
| 6 | The DYP and the SHP both argued that the President had exceeded his constitutional powers in his policy-making ; some Cabinet ministers claimed in February 1991 that they had not been kept informed of Özal 's decision-making over coalition forces operating from Turkish bases . |
| 7 | Richter said on Jan. 7 that he had never signed any pledge to collaborate with the StB , nor had he ever given it any information . |
| 8 | He had told the legate in 1095 that he knew very well what needed to be done , but that he had no power to do what was necessary without the king 's aid and consent . |
| 9 | It was only in 1946 that he came up with a practical scheme for using the manyattas for higher purposes . |
| 10 | Bevin told the British House of Commons in February 1946 that he did not want Turkey to become " a satellite state " of the USSR . |
| 11 | The British ambassador to Vienna complained in the 1780s that he had not received a line in reply to fifty despatches he had sent home ; and when he returned to London he " was under the utmost Astonishment at having been twice to the Secretary of State 's Office without finding a single Soul there " . |
| 12 | Local authorities have had powers of this nature for many years ( the origin was the 1932 Planning Act ) , but it was not until the property boom of the early 1970s that they became widely used . |
| 13 | The woman-centred perspective had some impact at the beginning of the second wave of western feminism , but it was in the 1970s that it became most powerful , and most in conflict with egalitarian approaches . |
| 14 | King Ludwig of Bavaria and Idi Amin are two examples ; President Macias Nguema of Equatorial Guinea became so obsessed with imaginary enemies in the 1970s that he butchered more than 10 per cent of his country 's population , including almost everyone identified as an intellectual . |
| 15 | The RBI announced on July 18 that it had recently sent a total of 46.9 tonnes of gold from its reserves to the Bank of England as collateral for raising loans . |
| 16 | As has been noted , it was round about now that the Encyclopaedia Britannica contract was being fulfilled , and the houses involved ( Clark 's , Morrison & Gibb and Ballantyne 's ) all had women working their Monotypes in 1909.23 Fraser , the director of Neill 's , had told the Fair Wage Committee of 1908 that he did not think his customers would like the quality of machine work , but that if he did not employ women , he would certainly install machines instead.24 In January 1909 the STJ ( the Circular had now changed its name to the Scottish Typographical Journal ) was sounding the alarm : " Our trade is going over to machinery , and the machinery is in the hands of underpaid girls . " |
| 17 | Eagle Trust ( the parent company of WS ) admitted on April 17 that it had recently shipped hydraulic equipment to Iraq which could have been used as a recoil system for a gun . |
| 18 | It was not until the middle of 1916 that he felt sufficiently confident to offer an olive branch to the employers . |
| 19 | The Czechoslovak government announced on April 4 that it had formally notified the CMEA Secretariat that it was withdrawing from three multilateral agreements designed to regulate the currency rate mechanism which were no longer operational [ see pp. 37326 ; 37334 ] . |
| 20 | 3 That he did n't believe in progress . |
| 21 | The house was n't run-down , either , but there were touches here and there betraying the fact 64 that it had n't been lived in for a couple of years ; the windows that were n't shuttered were n't clean , and there were weeds pushing up through the gravel . |
| 22 | Proceedings in a Dutch court were begun by a document transmitted under the Hague Convention to a local court in Germany which certified under Article 6 that it had not been possible to serve the document . |
| 23 | It was only in 1977 that I became even vaguely aware of gay liberation . |
| 24 | The most important recent decision , Jones v Sherwood Computer Services plc [ 1991 ] NPC 60 , was first published outside LEXIS eighteen months after the judgment following a complaint from the judge in Nikko Hotels ( UK ) Ltd v MEPC plc [ 1991 ] 28 EG 86 that it had not been reported . |
| 25 | Britain 's previously firm stand against tear-gas was significantly undermined by a government statement in 1970 that it did not consider CS and similar gases to be covered by the Protocol . |
| 26 | Erm that was in the early days Charley and Tom did the crossing there for the mails and early in nineteen fifty one no fifty five that we took over the mails . |
| 27 | 8 That he did n't involve himself in life . |
| 28 | The head of the decyphering branch of the foreign ministry there claimed in 1823 that he had personally broken eighty-five foreign codes , at a time when eighty to a hundred letters were being opened on each working day . |
| 29 | Following the meeting a US military excavation team carried out its first MIA search in Cambodia ; it announced on March 23 that it had recently unearthed some remains which were believed to be of members of US television crews killed in Cambodia in 1970 . |
| 30 | 15 That he did n't believe Art had a social purpose . |