Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clerk argued that it was not a " competent application " . |
| 2 | Parliament announced that it would hold an emergency debate on the accidents . |
| 3 | Distressing as it was for the Victorian establishment to contemplate having descended from monkeys , it would not be long before new advances in physiology and biochemistry revealed that we virtually are monkeys — differing from the chimpanzee , for instance , by a single chromosome in our genetic code . |
| 4 | do you think that was a deliberate decision made that it should be part of the flats rather than somewhere outside , |
| 5 | He wrote in the Times : ‘ Last night in Sheffield , image throttled intellect and a quiet voice in every reporter present whispered that there was something disgusting about the occasion . |
| 6 | In the end Flimnap realized that his wife was not in love with me , and had not done anything wrong , but he was still angry with me . |
| 7 | The three hour the recreation chairman asked that we er , standard bills for garage for petrol and Centre for the standard items , . |
| 8 | ‘ The police and ambulance arrived on the scene very rapidly and the other driver admitted that it was her fault . |
| 9 | The Lieutenant recommended that we bring her to you , as she was carrying this . ’ |
| 10 | And the flamboyant Chelsea chairman announced that his 11-year marriage to wife Pam is over . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When it was opened , British Rail argued that it was important because it would not be necessary to improve the lines around London . |
| 13 | A random sequencing strategy applied to two large Sal I restriction fragments ( SB and SD ) of the African swine fever virus ( ASFV ) genome revealed that they might encode proteins similar to the two largest RNA polymerase subunits of eukaryotes , poxviruses and Escherichia coli . |
| 14 | During pre-trial hearings at the Old Bailey , Mr Greenway 's counsel argued that he should be tried by his fellow MPs and not a court of law . |
| 15 | The trial judge rejected that submission and , on appeal , counsel argued that he had not specifically dealt with the issue of breach of the Code . |
| 16 | At Oxford Crown Court his counsel argued that he did not intend to harm Miss Lamplugh and had planned to commit suicide by crashing her car . |
| 17 | Looks as if the message that an army of outsiders is needed to turn IBM Corp 's disparate businesses around is beginning to get through : yesterday the Personal Software Products division announced that it had recalled William Rich to be general manager , worldwide sales and marketing — he had left the company but had been acting as a consultant to it ; it has also tapped David Proctor as vice-president of products — Proctor is formerly president of Xerox Computer Services and had been president and chief executive of Ashton-Tate Corp ; before he took that position , he had served 23 years with IBM . |
| 18 | The 5½ million inhabitants of England and Wales in 1700 had swelled to nearly 7 million in 1760 ; in 1801 the first census revealed that there were over 9 million people ; by 1811 there were 10½ million . |
| 19 | The other radicals who were present argued that they should join with the eleven newly elected people , ‘ reasoning that since we held the initiative we would be able to force the pace , drag some of them along in our wake and force the others quickly to resign ’ . |
| 20 | Interfax reported on Oct. 11 that the Azerbaijani Defence Ministry admitted that its forces had been forced to withdraw from positions in the area , |
| 21 | On Jan. 31 , 1990 , Thatcher admitted that she had been misled about the extent of the subversion campaign , while on Feb. 7 the House of Commons select committee on defence announced that it was to hold an inquiry into the MOD 's handling of the affair . |
| 22 | The French Ministry of Defence announced that it had exploded a 35-kiloton nuclear device on Mururoa Atoll on July 5 , 1990 , the fourth such test since June 1989 . |
| 23 | A more detailed age profile of all students in relation to overall progress revealed that there was relatively little difference between the age groups although those aged between 18 and 19 years were most likely to graduate while those under 18 and over 40 years of age were least successful . |
| 24 | In a statement issued on July 19 the SOC Foreign Ministry announced that it " welcomed " the " constructive " US move . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In a statement issued on March 28 the Mongolian Foreign Ministry announced that it expected Russia to abide by a March 1990 Soviet-Mongolian agreement which stipulated that all Soviet troops would withdraw from Mongolia by Aug. 30 , 1992 [ see p. 37318 ] . |
| 27 | On March 15 the Interior Ministry announced that it was to drop the charges pending against about 6,000 people for illegal political activities during the regime of Gen. Hossain Mohammad Ershad . |
| 28 | Microsoft Corp announced that its chief financial officer and executive vice-president of worldwide operations Frank Gaudette , 57 , died early on Friday after an eight-month fight with lymphatic cancer ; the Redmond company says that it has not thought about a successor . |
| 29 | Louis Gerstner clearly decided that discretion was the better part of valour when it came to facing the blue rinse brigade at the annual meeting in Tampa , Florida yesterday , and just before the meeting , IBM Corp announced that its diminished dividend would be unchanged at 54 cents a share for the first quarter ; there had been fears that the company would cut it again . |
| 30 | Separately , Digital Equipment Corp announced that it was moving back into South Africa with a wholly-owned subsidiary , Digital Sales and Services South Africa ( Pty ) Ltd , which begins operation on July 1 . |