Example sentences of "that the [noun] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 What apparently made all the difference to the price was that the clock came from a historic house , Cassiobury Park , and that it is illustrated in an important book on the craftsman — Thomas Tompion , His Life and Work by R W Symonds .
2 He had , however , remained optimistic that the agreements reached at Yalta would be kept : in his last message to Churchill he had written " I would minimize the general Soviet problem . "
3 The meeting agreed that the agreements reached in Cartagena needed to be " dynamized " and their implementation strengthened .
4 It was not that the Americans rose against Spain ; it was that Spain fell away from America .
5 The report , whose conclusions were due to be made public after the expiry of 21 days within which interested parties were required to submit their comments , was expected to confirm that the crash resulted from pilot error involving the inadvertent shutting down of the wrong engine .
6 The court heard that the crash happened at Pentwyn , Cardiff , after the three celebrated Coombes ' first job .
7 Although somewhat hazy about the precise nature of these forces , Morgenthau was clear that the subject needed to be elevated to a science ; otherwise its radical message for American policy would be undermined by the wishful thinking of those wanting to return to a pre-war policy of isolationism .
8 They claimed that this was an annual event and it does seem that the date coincided with a regular initiation ceremony for new members of their organisation .
9 FIFA had ordered the match to be played in France on 28 March but Egypt protested that the date conflicted with the Moslem religious festival of Eid-al-Fitr .
10 There was no requirement that the engine had to be started .
11 It is further agreed that the approach adopted by the court of appeal in the case of and incorporate of nineteen eighty nine , one queens bench page eight hundred and seventy eight , is that which I should adopt , er the person which seeks to persuade me that the percentage which I should apply should be four point five percent rather than the two percent used in that case by the court of appeal , he argues partly on the basis of er , evidence by Mr an architect who er , with the greatest respect to him , whilst I feel quite sure his architectural abilities are of the highest quality , I feel that as an economist he is perhaps er not more reliable than any other economist , er but er , Mr argues that er , recent falls in house prices show that houses are not the risk free inflation proof investments which the court of appeal assumed when and was decided .
12 With the discovery of better-preserved material it became apparent that the graptolites consisted of rows of tiny cups which were interconnected by a common canal — they were colonial animals .
13 He was so excited that the spit flew from his mouth .
14 In addition , Franco would appoint the members of a Council of the Realm , to which his successor would eventually be responsible , and would also designate a Council of Regency , which would take his place until a successor was chosen , in the event that the Caudillo died without naming one .
15 Conditions in England while the tax was being gathered are likely to have been grim , considering the devastation caused by the recent fighting , and that the tribute came on top of the large amounts levied in Æthelred 's reign .
16 It was quite a shock to learn that the Elsie found at the bottom of Loch Craig was not a twenty-six-year-old woman but a woman in her late fifties or early sixties .
17 Paul walked about , feeling it begin to rain , not caring that the wet dripped on his suit of clothes .
18 It wants to give tourism back to the GLC , yet the only contribution that the GLC made to tourism was to destabilise and almost destroy the London tourist board .
19 Here , in the shelter that the glen gave from the Atlantic gales , the trees crowded close , and reasonably tall .
20 The England pace attack laboured in vain yet again , and what was even more worrying was that the selectors toyed with the idea of once more playing four quick bowlers .
21 I did find with mine that the secret lay in a final row at the higher tension and that removing the weights was the answer to perfect transferring .
22 The reason for the difference seemed to be that the DHSS paid for nursing home treatment in a number of instances : ‘ They took the pension and attendance allowance and the DHSS paid the rest . ’
23 In addition to the £50,000 that the DHSS contributed towards training and information for the changes , it also agreed to supply a copy of relevant HMSO publications to every bureaux .
24 The result of all this was that the Escort languished in some unfamiliar positions in the top 10 sales chart .
25 It had been discovered that the atom consisted of a small , positively charged nucleus surrounded by a cloud of negatively charged electrons .
26 He painted with such intensity that the painting fell on his head as he leant forward to see me better .
27 Although the classic definition of a recession is two successive quarters of falling real GNP — implying that the recession started in the fourth quarter of last year — the National Bureau of Economic Research ( NBER ) , America 's official business-cycle watcher , uses a different yardstick : the monthly indicators for employment , industrial production , real business sales and real personal disposable income .
28 That would imply that the recession started in the second quarter of 1990 , which it clearly did not , because output rose between the first and second quarters of 1990 .
29 This is emphasised by the fact that the parent claimed to be asserting a ‘ right not to be dictated to ’ — at the expense of his/her child 's right to education .
30 The poet , playwright and painter , Stanislaw Wyspiański ( 1869–1907 ) , saw himself as the bridge over the confused gulf that separated the Polish intelligentsia and the peasantry , the perfect representative of the Young Poland movement that contained all the bitterness of repeated national defeats , all the resignation of patriots who felt they could change nothing , and all the compromised hopes for material change that the Positivists saw in Poland 's potential industrial wealth under foreign rule .
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