Example sentences of "that it [vb past] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some reports suggested that it had survived what was described as the fourth attempted coup since Bashir took power from the government of Sadiq el-Mahdi in June 1989 [ see p. 36728 ] . |
| 2 | He was believed by Iran to have been secretly detained by Iraq ; the latter maintained , however , that he had died while under detention , a claim supported by the ICRC which , in September , indicated that it had received his death certificate . |
| 3 | He would have to be told ; any day now it would dawn on Tollemarche that it had spawned its first successful author , and he could guess the kind of jokes his father 's colleagues were going to make when they found out what kind of book he had written . |
| 4 | What was striking was that the women artists were reshaping an inherited iconographic language and that it had become theirs to stake out as their own : the language of the body . |
| 5 | Claiming to have uncovered details of plans for an imminent military coup , the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) stated on Nov. 27 that it had placed its remaining guerrilla forces ( an estimated 3,000 not yet demobilized ) on full alert . |
| 6 | She could n't tell him that it had aroused her ; that the smarting of her breasts and belly and buttocks had combined to generate an absurd pleasure ; that the gentle scourging of her flesh had stimulated a tide of salaciousness ; that she was enjoying it . |
| 7 | When it issued its first interim report in the autumn of 1955 , it was clear that it had narrowed its focus to the two core projects raised before Messina , the Netherlands proposal for a common market and Monnet 's ideas for a nuclear energy community . |
| 8 | In a formal letter addressed to the UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on July 11 , Iraq renewed its demand for an end to international trade sanctions , saying that it had met its obligations under Gulf ceasefire resolutions . |
| 9 | The only snag with decorating was that it had kept her hands busy , but left her mind all too free to wander . |
| 10 | With the usual lack of euphemism , the overseers enter the rubric ‘ Dead ’ against her name at the beginning of 1786 ; their accounts for 10 January indicate that it had cost them the grand sum of 3s. 9d. to bury three paupers : ‘ West Wife ; Titford and Robbans ’ . |
| 11 | The boy stood up and his expression of mixed defiance and desperation showed that it had cost him something to enter this house . |
| 12 | It had been extensively rewritten by Robert , who was now so good at doing Mafouz 's handwriting that it had affected his ability to reproduce his own signature convincingly . |
| 13 | Kerr reported on the visit at the July meeting of the Council , drawing attention to ‘ the adverse criticisms contained in this report ’ , emphasizing that it had been a strong visiting party , and that it had reached its conclusions unanimously . |
| 14 | On 17 September Christie 's announced that it had cut its interim payment down to 0.5p compared with 2.3p in the first half of last year . |
| 15 | Ample proof indeed that it had recognized them and it realized that it was the entrance to its home . |
| 16 | Former Cray Research Inc chairman John Rollwagen has withdrawn his name from further consideration for the number two post at the US Commerce Department after the Securities & Exchange Commission asked him to participate in an insider trading probe centring on sale of shares in Cray Computer Corp ahead of that company 's announcement that it had lost its only Cray 3 order . |
| 17 | It was cold inside but the friar was pleased that it had lost its musty smell . |
| 18 | Intelligent input/output board supplier , Byfleet , Surrey-based Specialix Ltd , says its flagship product , the transputer-based RIO controller , is n't going down the storm that it had hoped it would : even OEM deals with the likes of Groupe Bull SA have not boosted sales , says marketing director , Ian Cummins , ‘ RIO is not selling as well as we thought it would … and our estimations on its performance in the market are nine months ahead of what has actually happened ’ . |
| 19 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) announced on Oct. 1 that it had increased its lending to Bangladesh — under an existing three-year enhanced structural adjustment facility ( ESAF ) — to help the country to cope with the impact of the Gulf war and the effects of the April cyclone [ see pp. 38152 ; 38176-77 ] . |
| 20 | After Rent 's execution the regime probably felt confident that it had overcome its enemies . |
| 21 | He retained an affection for Paris and a gratitude for the intellectual advantages that it had given him to which he later referred as pope . |
| 22 | The record of this parliament is incomplete , but the recollection of contemporaries seems unequivocal , and in later , more difficult , circumstances parliament was to be reminded more than once that it had given its assent to the war . |
| 23 | Avon County Council said yesterday that it had done everything possible to help the family . |
| 24 | It had let him down badly on some occasions , but , on balance , nobody could deny that it had served him extremely well . |
| 25 | On April 24 ( the final day of the Taiwanese National Assembly session ) China announced that it had stopped its " loudspeaker war " with Taiwan . |
| 26 | She blushed at the thought that she had half considered it , that the pressure on her hand and admiration had added something to her pleasure , that it had made her feel successful . |
| 27 | Demonstrating what a simple change at the top can achieve , Compaq Computer Corp , which had sales of $3,200m last year and had been heading back towards the $2,000m mark under the previous regime , last week announced that it had made it through the $4,000m sales barrier for 1992 , with profits up 34% in the most recent quarter . |
| 28 | Now that it had disaffiliated it recognized the necessity of strengthening this co-operation . |
| 29 | But she could n't let him see that it had meant something to her . |
| 30 | I explained how it was that as a child I had been told I was an eidetiker but that it had meant nothing to me . |