Example sentences of "[noun prp] [that] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back on that moment , it had often occurred to Shiona that it had marked the path that their future relationship was to take . |
| 2 | Touche Ross announced on Tuesday that it had formed a new international firm , Deloitte Ross Tohmatsu ( DRT ) without Deloitte UK . |
| 3 | Sent off for my tickets for the aforementioned match on Monday , only to find out on Tuesday that it 's been postponed ( effin Bright ) . |
| 4 | It was on a Tuesday that it happened . |
| 5 | I agree with the hon. Member for Chichester that it does not matter to the British people whether they have a pound sterling or an ecu in their pockets if their level of prosperity is being maintained and enhanced . |
| 6 | Moscow has increased the number of countries with which it has commercial dealings from four in 1960 to over twenty by the end of the 1970s , but the volume of trade has not exceeded $30 million with more than eight ( Argentina , Brazil , Uruguay , Peru , Bolivia , Mexico , Colombia and Nicaragua ) and it is only with Argentina , Brazil and Nicaragua that it has risen above the $100 million level . |
| 7 | Windata Inc announced on Friday that it has formed a subsidiary in Israel , which will develop software for management of local and wireless communication systems : the availability of many experts in telcommunications and wireless communication in Israel make the country an ideal place for such research and development according to Greg Hopkins , Windata 's chief executive ; Israel 's privileged relationship with the European Community will provide more flexibility to the subsidiary in the firm 's efforts to penetrate European markets . |
| 8 | I think we 're entitled to ask if Nottinghamshire faces those problems , what is peculiar about Leicestershire that it did face those problems but all of a sudden it does n't face those problems . |
| 9 | Indeed , it was one of the great merits of manufacturing to the early eighteenth-century observer Daniel Defoe that it brought increased employment and greater prosperity to a district compared with those which remained wholly dependent on agriculture . |
| 10 | In fact it was already a quality of Britten 's music before Grimes that it said new things with material which , on closer inspection , often turned out to be surprisingly familiar and straightforward . |
| 11 | Our escorting Wellington was delayed due to phenomenal sandstorms in the Delta area , and it was only on 18 March that it arrived and we set off for Benina to refuel before the sea leg to Malta . |
| 12 | Erm we 've heard from Mr Williamson that it fills a strategic gap and guidance and that pressures on the countryside are exerted daily and curiously enough it was n't a policy of restraint or restriction . |
| 13 | Helen whispered to Sarah that it had been confirmed that she was pregnant and the baby was due in late November . |
| 14 | THE SALVATION Army was warned that it might be the victim of an elaborate fraud weeks before the charity revealed in February that it had been defrauded of £6.2 million . |
| 15 | Although the general rule that costs should follow the event does not apply in the Family Division ( RSC Order 62 , r3(5) ) the Court of Appeal decided in Gojkovic v Gojkovic ( 1991 ) The Times , 1 May that it provides a useful starting point . |
| 16 | Central policy seemed to be so prejudiced against the Ukraine that it evoked the suspicion in several foreign observers that this particular national minority was being deliberately neglected as a punishment for its hostility to Russian rule in the Civil War . |
| 17 | During the Thatcher years Labour ditched one left-wing policy after another in an attempt to convince the voters of the southern region of England that it had ‘ moderated itself ’ . |
| 18 | It has taken the Tories ' current enthusiasm for copying Labour policies — and this week 's signal from the Bank of England that it favours a form of credit controls — to start to blur that image . |
| 19 | He seemed to be mulling things over because he must have seen that this had not been the shock to Maggie that it had to him . |
| 20 | Siemens has always modelled its mainframe business so closely on that if IBM that it seems inevitable that the growing antipathy towards IBM 's mainframes would rub off on Siemens customers even without the prospect of something approaching depression in Germany : the coincidence of the two strongly implies that once the company finally and painfully gets the ravaged Nixdorf side of the house straight , it will have to repeat the process all over again on the Siemens side . |
| 21 | Following the announcement in January that it had suspended production of the Cambridge and Linx brands , Wharfedale has announced that it is to discontinue Linx , though it will undertake to maintain warranty and spare parts support . |
| 22 | Half an hour later , driven by a resolve almost beyond her comprehension , she was across the lake , informing Tilly that it had become necessary for her to take up more permanent residence at the Lodge . |
| 23 | It was long after she had gone to sleep and he had prodded her in the ribs to stop her snoring and was , himself , lying awake , staring into the darkness , thinking about Donald that it occurred to Henry that this was the longest conversation he had had with Elinor for about a year and that , after a bad start , she had , once or twice , come dangerously near to amiability . |
| 24 | During the first half of the fifteenth century , for example , though slaves had come to man a large part of the standing army and to hold the lesser vezirliks , it was only after the conquest of Istanbul and the consequent fall of the Grand Vezir Candarli Halil Pasa that it became more or less regular practice for the highest office of the central administration , that of Grand Vezir , to be held by men of slave origin . |
| 25 | On Jan. 29 Iraq informed the UN that it had destroyed more than 181,000 bombs , missiles and other explosives used by the allies against it during the Gulf war . |
| 26 | Rolfe & Nolan Computer Services Plc is to pay $1.675m — $465,000 in cash , the balance in 327,027 new shares — for the 80.1% of Brokerage Systems Inc , Chicago that it does not already own , and says it wants the company to meet the needs of the US operations of its European customers : it says it has already created automated links between its own system and the RISC system of Brokerage Systems Inc , and that the links are to be developed further . |
| 27 | However , Continental Airlines , which had entered Chapter 11 protection during 1990 , said in November that it had reduced its operating deficits . |
| 28 | The situation was especially serious in the Harer and Ogaden areas , where UN relief operations were suspended in late May until June 15 ; on June 21 the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees announced from Geneva that it had begun a food airlift to 80,000 people stranded near Gode in the southern Ogaden . |
| 29 | Jacques Delors reminds Luxembourg that it does n't have a currency . |
| 30 | On July 24 the Djibouti government rejected suggestions by Ahmed Ali that it sought territorial expansion at the expense of Somaliland . |