Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] [that] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On May 2 the Defence Ministry announced that it had cancelled measures encouraging mainland Chinese soldiers to defect to Taiwan by offering gold or cash rewards . |
| 2 | Only a few months ago , Neath borough council complained that it did not have enough money for housing . |
| 3 | The industrial investment group replied that it had employed both Korn/Ferry and Russell Reynolds , but wrote that although the type of firm used depended essentially on their need , ‘ our experience is that in our opinion we receive better service from smaller , local firms for positions which do not have an international content to the job ’ . |
| 4 | Most interestingly however , the equivalent region of the HPV 6/11 URR was unable to compete for Oct-1 binding in these experiments , even at four hundred fold excess indicating that it does not represent a functional binding site for Oct-1 . |
| 5 | Many Bank Assistant members who saw the Association 's Submission to the Labour Court commented that it contained a case which was irresistible . |
| 6 | A source within the fraud squad confirmed that it had received helpful information from Mr Hann at an early stage . |
| 7 | At 3pm on Tuesday , the first closing date , the Dragon board announced that it had received acceptances from 750 shareholders in respect of 39.71 per cent of Drayton Asia 's issued share capital . |
| 8 | Cramp the workpiece to the upper board and by means of a wood block ensure that it lines up with the edge of the top board . |
| 9 | What evidence there is on sett size suggest that it does n't necessarily increase with group size , and certainly the four individuals in the Brighton group would hardly seem to need a complex consisting of more than a kilometre of tunnels . |
| 10 | It defines its own management system to ensure that it complies with the Group policy and is relevant to its business . |
| 11 | The jobs that do seem to be safe are those of top management : an official familiar with the agenda for next week 's board meeting said that it does n't include any discussion of personnel changes involving John Akers or any other executive . |
| 12 | Toshiba Corp claims that it has developed a much more compact version of the C programming language . |
| 13 | Dieting always seems to conjure up images of endless cottage cheese salads , calorie-counting and saying no to all your favourite foods but our five day diet plan proves that it does n't have to be dull and boring . |
| 14 | Business Post calculates that it has spent about £400,000 on the programme . |
| 15 | So presenting the centre line and okay we 're going to come on to the eye contact as well in a moment , presenting the centre line with eye contact means that it feels much more positive for the audience in terms of the delivery . |
| 16 | Offering a financial advisory service is so often a logical extension of tax advice and other staple accountancy functions that it seems almost perverse not to realise its potential and reap the rewards ( and this will be even more the case once we start to move out of the recession ) . |
| 17 | The local and wide area networking company says that it intends to merge Adaptive with its Network Applications Division , which is to focus on the development and manufacturing of local area network , internetworking and broadband products . |
| 18 | One company in the food processing and distribution market claimed that it experienced a 50% reduction in absenteeism from 8% to 4% over a three year period . |
| 19 | The chastened company admitted that the shock loss showed that it had been guilty of poor financial controls and a badly-timed shareholders letter — Vannotti said the board was convinced up to March 22 when the shareholders letter was sent that it would record a profit for 1992 , but he and the chairman subsequently ordered a special audit , after financial controllers warned of problems with the accounts for Ascom 's cable television and mobile telephone businesses in Germany , and a closer examination revealed the German results had to be corrected by $41m — $28m of extraordinary depreciation and $12.8m of adjustments to inventory values , Vannotti said . |
| 20 | The county court judge ruled that it did not . |
| 21 | The college 's development plan reveals that it hopes to give 700 pupils a year a taste of education in one of nine countries funds permitting . |
| 22 | The Usher Art Gallery decided that it needed to replace its imposing main entrance gates which were taken away in the war . |
| 23 | A quick phone call confirmed that it did . |
| 24 | New Haven , Connnecticut-based Southern New England Telecommunications Corp says it plans to try video-on demand services in 500 homes later this year : the phone company says that it intends to charge up to $6 per month to connect to the network , but will it during the trial . |
| 25 | The UK phone company reports that it has also successfully tested wireless access to its messaging service via RAM Mobile Data 's national network . |
| 26 | Cherwell district council estimated that it had lost £200,000 in poll tax revenue due from the wives of US servicemen . |
| 27 | A Design Change state indicating that it has been decided not to proceed with work on the Design Change . |
| 28 | Coun George Robinson claimed that if the council had received the same level of Government support grant that it had in the 1970s , the poll tax would have been about £100 . |
| 29 | On Nov. 29 the Air Force announced that it had selected six new bases for the mobile MX missile in the states of Arkansas , Louisiana , Michigan , North Dakota , Texas and Washington . |
| 30 | The United States Secretary of State James Baker had previously announced that the Japanese contribution had been offered without precondition and would be used for military purposes , but within hours of Kaifu 's pledge the US State Department indicated that it had no objection to such a restriction . |