Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [that] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 The uncertainty was fuelled further when Larne boss Gary Irwin admitted that he thought the goal had been disallowed for a foul on goalkeeper Graeme McConnell .
2 The Isle of Wight TEC says that it notified the Department of Employment in August that it might be unable to meet the YT guarantee within the funds allocated for the purpose .
3 Bede says that he reduced the southern Saxons to a more grievous servitude on the death of Berhthun ( HE IV , 15 ) , and the situation in Kent may have been similar , the kingdom reduced to economic and political disarray.27
4 Bede says that he subjected the kingdom of the southern Saxons to severe oppression and their bishopric was soon absorbed within the diocese of Winchester ( HE IV , 15 ) .
5 Samuel Hitching stated that he examined the Coffin carefully and that it had two canvas patches on where there were decayed places in the Wood — he also measured the thickness of the Board and they were only 5/8 of an inch at top and ½ an inch thick at the bottom — the lid was also warped that they could not screw it down properly-One of the bearers also stated that he was afraid it would fall in pieces before they got to the Church with it .
6 Can my right hon. and learned Friend confirm that it took the emergency services an hour to reach the injured , and that another hour went past before the 125 was able to move off ?
7 Barr stated that he accepted the recommendations in the report and had created a special unit in the Criminal Division of the Justice Department to pursue the matter .
8 The commission 's recommendations to Mr Lang included that he require the two officials to pay a sum he considered appropriate to the council .
9 M Beregovoy says that he accepted the money from his ‘ friend , ’ Roger-Patrice Pelat , in September 1986 in order to help buy a modest , 100 sq m flat for himself in the fashionable 16th Arrondissement of Paris , costing 2.5 million francs .
10 In 1018 Thietmar of Merseburg says that he destroyed the crews of thirty pirate ships , and he perhaps visited Canterbury to initiate his important and generally good relations with the archbishopric .
11 DEC says that it changed the name of VMS to OpenVMS to reflect its X/Open Portability Guide 3 branding , Posix-compliance and its ability to run on several environments as well as VAX and Alpha .
12 Doubt is cast upon Bursali Mehmed Tahir 's statement , however , by the fact that in the concluding lines of what appears to be another autograph manuscript of the same work , Molla Husrev remarks that he finished the composition of it certainly refers to the work , not the manuscript ) on Saturday 2 Jumada I 883/Saturday 1 August 1478 , having begun it on Saturday 12 Dhu " l-Ka'da 877/Saturday 10 April 1473 .
13 Mary Jane says that she loves the feeling of space but the only drawback is not having a hallway to put the wet coats and muddy boots in when it rains .
14 Citing the testimony of local residents , the UDF claimed that they contained the remains of people summarily executed in September-October 1944 ( i.e. immediately following the Soviet invasion and communist seizure of power ) .
15 Two days later , Coningham replied that he thought the irregular treatment of the Broad Sanctuary houses stemmed from ‘ no other motive than the architect 's wish for the picturesque ’ .
16 National officer Roger Payne observed that he disliked the notion of traditional climbing .
17 William of Jumiéges alleges that he treated the æthelings Edward and Alfred with honour , adopted them as brothers , and sent messengers to Cnut asking that they be restored to their own .
18 On a number of occasions during March members of the NPKA indicated that they wanted the new constitution to introduce a clear separation of powers between the executive and the legislature .
19 Marie Wassilieff relates that she seized the gun , forced Modigliani out of the door and rolled him down the stairs .
20 I used to despise the people who wrote me letters from England showing that they found the world drab and depressing .
21 The government insisted that this meant that the ANC should also end recruitment and training , but the ANC asserted that it had the right to recruit inside South Africa for training abroad .
22 Michael Shersby , the MP who represents the police federation 's interests in the Commons , told our reporter Simon Mares that he found the sentence hard to understand .
23 But if we study the use of religious language in Wordsworth 's poems between 1798 and 1820 we see a gradual change from what might be meant metaphorically or ‘ poetically ’ ( Wordsworth said that he employed the pre-existence theme in the Immortality Ode ‘ as a Poet ’ ) towards language that is used literally and in an orthodox Christian sense .
24 Chez Gerard boasts that it does the best steak frites in town — and judging by the quality of their thin , crispy and piping hot chips , I 'd be inclined to believe them .
25 But Middlesbrough showed that they have the skill and fighting spirit to fulfil their Premier League dream and make this only a temporary set-back .
26 Gettier argued that they show the tripartite account to be insufficient ; it is possible for someone not to know even when all the three clauses are satisfied .
27 She has not approached the senior civil service , local authorities , universities , trade unions , BBC , Church of England , the legal and medical professions , and public corporations with the reverence — or at least respect — with which Burke recommended that we regard the work of our ancestors .
28 Welcoming Bush 's proposals on Sept. 28 as " a decision of historic dimensions " , the German Chancellor Helmut Kohl noted that they implied the removal of all short-range missiles from Germany .
29 Fulcrum Technologies Inc , Ottawa , Canada reckons that it has the industry 's first suite of SQL-based tools that enable corporate information professionals to access text information and make it available throughout an organisation for use as a strategic resource : Fulcrum says SearchTools offer the first means by which corporate developers , working within an open client-server environment , can build text-retrieval applications for accessing large text applications and give them a way to integrate text-intensive data into existing corporate information management , image or database systems ; the tools feature an applications programming interface based on the SQL Access Group 's Call Level Interface ; the tools will initially be available for Microsoft Corp Visual Basic and Windows developers , as well as for C developers working in other environments , such as OS/2 and Unix ; initial Unix support will be under AIX/6000 , HP-UX and Solaris ; the SearchTools development kit starts at $7,500 per copy and the indexing and retrieval component , SearchServer , will be from $1,000 per user .
30 The head of Northend claimed that he thought the self-appraisal to be the most important aspect of the exercise for the school .
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