Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [that] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Doubtless ICI thinks that it has provided a good home for those stripped assets . |
| 3 | The special nature of the facts of the case mean that it has a very narrow reading and for this reason might amount to nothing more than an amalgam of common law duties not to be dishonest . |
| 4 | Dr Thaler thinks that it happens only in trained networks because , as a network learns , its elements organise themselves into colonies that respond specifically to different features of the environment . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Eye-witnesses insist that it did happen and , further , that 80-odd ( or even very odd ) people showed up . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Kohl and the French President François Mitterrand had already appealed for emergency aid when they met in Assmannshausen on June 22 , and on the same day West Germany announced that it had agreed to guarantee a DM5,000 million ( approximately US$2,980 million ) loan to the Soviet Union . ) |
| 9 | 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 ] . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Restriction analysis of the rescued plasmid revealed that it had the expected structure . |
| 12 | Our journeys on the whiteboard suggest that it holds the key to our concepts of beauty . |
| 13 | Eventually , on Feb. 25 , the Israeli Foreign Ministry disclosed that it had formally requested additional US military aid worth US$1,000 million to offset defence costs incurred as a result of the crisis . |
| 14 | The Board reported that it had established management objectives and expressed confidence that the introduction of new management techniques , in many cases building on work in hand , would lead to significant improvements in the speed and quality of service and efficiency . |
| 15 | Newcomers to CAD say that it has its own jargon . |
| 16 | Accounts of their trial suggest that it took the form of a political witch-hunt , with the intention of intimidating other critics of the government . |
| 17 | In contrast , antibodies against C/EBPδ ( 27 ) completely abolish the IL-6 induced complex suggesting that it contains C/EBP δ/NF-IL6; β . |
| 18 | ‘ The ball belongs to us , ’ whined Willie Allan 's letter , ‘ and if it does n't turn up we will take steps to see that it does . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In December , the World Food Programme announced that it had reached an agreement with the government and the EPLF to reopen the port [ see p. 37907 ] . |
| 21 | Writing about this film thirty years later John Clellan Holmes recalled how as an adolescent he had been initiated into manhood by the momentary revelation of ‘ the soft , white trembling curve of Jean Harlow 's breast ’ , but even at the time Welford Beaton argued that it had succeeded at the box-office because more than any other picture we have had , it demonstrates that the true mission of the screen is to supply visual entertainment' . |
| 22 | Ambitious Toronto-based systems integrator and facilities manager SHL Systemhouse Inc on Friday announced that it had signed a letter of intent to buy City of London-based banking and financial services systems company AST Trans-Act Ltd . |
| 23 | The FAO forestry department admitted that it has had problems meeting demand , which had far exceeded expectations . |
| 24 | When , in this situation , the person defamed sought to issue a writ , and the Member concerned asked the House of Commons to treat the matter as a breach of privilege , the Committee of Privileges recommended that it do so but the House , by a small majority , rejected this recommendation . |
| 25 | On June 28 Treuhand announced that it had taken control of PDS landed property , and frozen all its bank accounts , restricting the party 's freedom to spend money from those accounts without Treuhand permission . |
| 26 | The disadvantages placed on the industry mean that it costs our farmers 5p a dozen more to produce eggs . |
| 27 | Reagan 's testimony was released on Feb. 22 after the Justice Department ruled that it contained no classified information . |
| 28 | We do not know how this activated state is subsequently maintained throughout the healing process , although the final overrun and pile-up suggest that it takes some time to switch off . |
| 29 | In a moment she would open her eyes to discover that it had all been an incredible , fantastical dream . |
| 30 | And then came the bier , its front draped with a shawl to indicate that it carried a woman , which perhaps accounted for the general meagreness of the proceedings . |