Example sentences of "that it [vb past] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furnas insisted that the most recent stoppage was for routine maintenance until Greenpeace made public information about the incident that it had received from a worker at the plant , later confirmed by the Brazilian nuclear energy commission . |
| 2 | According to the conventional wisdom , fusion required great heat and hence could only have happened when the Earth was being formed ; however , if the Earth is five billion years old , all the helium would by now have risen away , yet it was there in amounts suggesting that it had appeared in the atmosphere only recently . |
| 3 | But The Sun thought that ‘ the meeting was a bogus one , if it was held at all ’ , further alleging that this clandestine organisation ( which said that it had met in secrecy because it feared Hooligan reprisals ) was a put-up job by someone in the pay of The Daily Telegraph . |
| 4 | The French Finance Minister , Pierre Bérégovoy , said , however , that Poland would not get the 80 per cent write-offs that it had asked for . |
| 5 | Thus , despite the threat that it had posed to the music industry , for six months from December 1976 to June 1977 , Punk Rock was quickly recuperated into a new kind of pop music that accurately reproduced the latest conditions of consumer capitalism . |
| 6 | This proposal found support in the work of Lord Kelvin , the pioneer Victorian geophysicist , who attempted to calculate the age of the Earth from its probable rate of cooling on the assumption that it had formed as a molten offshoot of the Sun . |
| 7 | The environmental pressure group Glasgow For People said that it had called on MPs to urge Strathclyde to cancel its plans for Glasgow road projects costing more than £200 million . |
| 8 | Its party chairman , Ivan Velkov , declared that it had existed as a " political circle " since the end of 1988 and as a party since Dec. 30 , 1989 , and that it currently had 10,000 members and adherents . |
| 9 | The Turkish army claimed that it had killed at least 34 guerrillas in the operation in the Cudi Mountains of south-eastern Turkey , 50 km from the border with Iraq . |
| 10 | Until now its speed had been so great that it had grown into a ravening monster , capable not only of swallowing the Residency , but of gulping down the banqueting hall as well . |
| 11 | Growing pressure from the government 's fundamentalist ally , the Jamaat-i-Islami , fuelled reports that it had contributed to the appointment on March 3 of Lt.-Gen. |
| 12 | As a feudal ruler he could not concentrate all power in his own hands , and the East India Company saw that it had to deal with a hundred local rulers . |
| 13 | By spreading power across a wider spectrum it would also make it less likely that any one region , such as Scotland , would find itself being governed by a party that it had rejected by huge margins at the polls . |
| 14 | The association said that it had heard of several cases in which EHOs had ordered unacceptable action from wine and drinks wholesalers under the 1990 Food Safety Act . |
| 15 | Against these criticisms , the Royal Commission noted that it had heard from ‘ witnesses representing a wide range of interests a great many tributes to the integrity of the police ’ . |
| 16 | Amiss thought of mentioning that it had tasted like condensed milk with a tea bag waved at it , but felt that might be a slur on Alf 's taste-buds . |
| 17 | The South African Communist Party ( SACP — which had been unbanned in February ) was formally relaunched as a legal organization at a rally on July 29 [ see below ] , amid controversy over allegations that it had conspired with the ANC 's military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe to use violence to overthrow the government if the current negotiations were to break down . |
| 18 | But , much to her surprise , when the bread was baked and she took it out , she found that it had turned to a beautiful large loaf of the finest wheat flour . |
| 19 | A figure of 0.86 livestock units/hectare of permanent grassland in Powys in 1939 shows that it had increased between that date and 1955 . |
| 20 | Though when the meal was ended and they went outside it was to discover that it had begun to drizzle . |
| 21 | It is most likely that it had to do with the extra fasts practised by the Pharisees and in this case the disciples of John the Baptist , who may have been mourning the death of their leader . |
| 22 | The RCC later announced that it had decided to " return the part and the branch , Kuwait , to the whole and origin , Iraq , in a comprehensive and eternal merger unity " . |
| 23 | May we not reasonably suppose that it had migrated from the central regions of this vast continent , which has yet much in store for future discovery ? |
| 24 | The new government was formed after consultations with seven parliamentary parties , but not with the Serbian Democratic Party ( SDS ) , which was banned on June 24 after a Sarajevo court found that it had developed into a " classic terrorist organization " , nor with the Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SPO ) . |
| 25 | The corrosion emanated from the joint between the bottom of the pressure dome and the fuselage and there was nicotine tar staining on the edge of the corroded area indicating that it had developed over a relatively long period . |
| 26 | But although we found little , report had magnified our findings in no ordinary degree and we afterwards learnt that it had gone over the country around that we had dug up a great treasure of gold . |
| 27 | ‘ Absolute horror , and then recognition that it had gone to the parents at the school for which I was responsible , and that this would inevitably result in the headmaster being approached by some parents objecting to having their child in a school with a warden like this . |
| 28 | He urged the world to " address the question of Palestine by the same criteria that it had applied over the question of Kuwait " . |
| 29 | It claimed that Ms Oruene had failed to show she was treated less favourably than any other candidate and that there was not a shred of evidence to show that it had deviated from normal procedures . |
| 30 | I asked Joe about the heart attack and the changes that it had brought to his life as he settled down for his six hours ' daily practice at the Manor Leisure Club in Yeadon , near Leeds-Bradford Airport . |