Example sentences of "[vb pp] that [noun prp] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A report in Le Monde of Sept. 20 disclosed that India faced the loss of workers ' remittances from Iraq and Kuwait totalling $400 million , and would lose exports to Iraq and Kuwait worth around $185 million , while an oil price increase of $3.00 per barrel would add $1,700 million to its oil import bill . |
| 2 | Academician Scriabin has even claimed that Sakharov has a private secretary ! |
| 3 | It was claimed that Alar posed a cancer threat to 50 people in a million over a lifetime — well over the legal limit . |
| 4 | Does this mean that God is ‘ not in time ’ — an example of the way of negation — or does it , as some have said , mean that all times are somehow ‘ present ’ to God , in which case it might be claimed that God possesses a kind of temporal omnipresence ? |
| 5 | It has been claimed that Margaret saw the tunnel as some sort of monument to her and her period of government . |
| 6 | It is claimed that Altrincham has the second highest capital income in the country . |
| 7 | The European Economic research Consortium has reported that Edinburgh had the best prospects of Britain 's large cities in the 1990's . |
| 8 | Gibson and Jewell have reported that SASP produces an inhibitory effect on natural killer activity . |
| 9 | BBC Ceefax last night also reported that Leeds had an £ 500,000 ( or some other good figure ) positive bottom line for the last financial year ( ending in june i suppose ) — which make the sale of Batty look somehow strange again … |
| 10 | Leeds have protested that Stuttgart broke the rule of playing four non-nationals instead of three in their first round clash and UEFA bosses will make their decision today . |
| 11 | But if it was intended that Jesus survive the Cross , or never perhaps be crucified at all , one can not help wondering whether Judas was privy to the plan . |
| 12 | It will be recalled that Peirce made no use of natural selection for similar purposes , and the difference between the projects of the two epistemologists will be clarified if we note why Quine can do so . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've heard that Middlesbrough has a large Irish community and I 'm sure there must be some Brennans who are related to us , ’ says Leo . |
| 14 | A bail hearing later heard that Atcheson carried a UDA card stating that he was entitled to collect for Loyalists Prisoners ' Aid . |
| 15 | Her father , Robert Skidmore , says , ‘ There 's a lot of anger in the French Quarter , because felt that Seth had a death wish and took my daughter with him . |
| 16 | But Tolkien would no doubt instantly have felt that Shakespeare had no copyright on the phrase , which must be of immemorial antiquity in English , ‘ as old as the hills ’ . |
| 17 | New Scientist also revealed that Britain had an answer to Rubik 's cube . |
| 18 | Ever since it was revealed that Grant has a boat I have been playing mind games to get him to invite us . |
| 19 | Still less can it be said that Jesus had a feminist interpretation of social realities . |
| 20 | It often used to be said that Britain had a two-party political system , meaning by this not merely that the electoral system favoured the two major parties , but , less contentiously , that these two parties between them nearly monopolized the votes cast . |
| 21 | There are growling bass reinforcements and the principal melody shouts its triumph at one point an octave higher than written , through it has to be said that Cortot had a way of making such licence irresistible . |
| 22 | In acknowledgement of British decency , it must be said that Gandhi possessed the supreme advantage in his campaigns of knowing that , so long as he confined his activities to non-violent protest , he was not risking death at the hands of the authorities . |
| 23 | It is difficult to explain why they would have maintained such popularity — for it is said that Cooper produced a painting a day — over shifts in market and social circumstances . |
| 24 | David had been right when he 'd said that Rachel knew the whereabouts of Brooklands , for she had been there with her parents and her sister shortly after David and Jennifer 's engagement had been announced . |
| 25 | Kronecker had said that God made the integers and the rest is the work of man . |
| 26 | It has often been said that Tony played a guitar with the crucifixes upside down , for a more sinister and satanic embellishment , but John Diggins is adamant that he never built one like that and he 's pretty certain that no such thing exists . |
| 27 | erm in a very interested book called Darwin on Man recently by a psychologist called Gruber , Gruber has argued that Darwin had a conviction which could be expressed by saying that things which are natural are necessarily gradual , and things which are sudden are miraculous and not natural , that he had this equation in his mind erm long before he erm became and evolutionist , long before he abandoned his belief in religion which he largely did later , and Gruber traces it back , interestingly enough , to the arguments of a theologian , Sumner , who later became an Archbishop , who Darwin took notes on his ideas when he was a student at Cambridge erm which are still extent , and what Sumner had argued , among other things , was that a good argument for believing in the divinity of Christ , that Christ was divine rather than simply being a gifted teacher , was the suddenness with which the beliefs of the ancient world were transformed by Christ 's teaching . |
| 28 | Experts have also argued that Britain has the most favourable conditions in Europe for the exploitation of wind , wave and tidal power . |
| 29 | Thus it was argued that William had a legitimate title to the throne because he won it by right of conquest in a just war . |
| 30 | That being so , it might be argued that Alcester enjoyed an importance , above that of most small towns , for the rural area around it , providing not only its goods and services , but also the accommodation and ancillary buildings for the farmers of the neighbourhood . |