Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at the conference in the Vatican mentioned earlier that I first put forward the suggestion that maybe time and space together formed a surface that was finite in size but did not have any boundary or edge . |
| 2 | Although the RTO felt strongly that it could not stand by , nevertheless its members could have opted to do nothing . |
| 3 | PARIS — French customs officers along the entire length of the Pyrenees announced yesterday that they were joining the 19-week-old strike by the country 's tax collectors and would be closing the border to commercial traffic , writes Patrick Marnham . |
| 4 | The UDF proposed instead that by-elections should be held in May to fill the seats left vacant by the expulsion from the Assembly of the disgraced former BCP leader and head of state Todor Zhivkov and his closest associates , and to replace other deputies who were most discredited by their record under the Zhivkov regime . |
| 5 | The Shah said later that he noticed the terrible wind and the gloomy sight of the planes grounded by strikes . |
| 6 | The SSD argues vehemently that removing perpetrators , rather than abused children , is in the spirit of the Act . |
| 7 | THE Bundesbank indicated yesterday that there were no immediate plans to reduce interest rates and pleaded for a rigorous savings campaign by Germans to combat rising debts . |
| 8 | I see from today 's Financial Times that a leading member of the board of the Bundesbank said yesterday that the Maastricht summit was a failure and might prove to be ’ a suicidal failure ’ — serious words from a key member of the body that drew up the detailed proposals for European economic and monetary union . |
| 9 | A spokesman for the FA said yesterday that the final ticket allocation would not be decided until after the LiverpoolPortsmouth replay next Monday night . |
| 10 | THE FBI said yesterday that the Texas cult leader David Koresh had indicated that he appears close to receiving a sign from God , implying that an end to his 20-day standoff with federal agents might be near . |
| 11 | Fortunately , everybody who knows the Nortons knows also that they 're crazy . |
| 12 | The Official Unionists within the UUUC argued stubbornly that the most effective place from which to influence events at Westminster was inside the Conservative Party . |
| 13 | During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–5 , the BMJ noted ominously that the Japanese were capable of great feats of endurance on account of their strict attention to the laws of hygiene . |
| 14 | Captain Smollett gave orders , and the Hispaniola turned so that the ship would sail just clear of the island on the east . |
| 15 | The government and the FIS claimed respectively that 17 or 20 people had died by June 10 . |
| 16 | The CBI stated recently that matters will improve and the Bank of England says that the leading indicator measures point firmly to an upturn in output in 1992 . |
| 17 | The LDPD suggested yesterday that East Germany should reintroduce the post of State Presidency — for which the Liberals would propose a candidate — which would curtail Mr Krenz 's treble power as party leader , head of state , and chairman of the National Defence Council . |
| 18 | The Mountie said grudgingly that a blood-covered rolled-up sheet of plastic had been found on the track near the area where Angelica must have been battered , and it could have been used as a poncho , and it was being investigated for blood type and fingerprints . |
| 19 | The IRA admitted yesterday that it had mistakenly killed secretary Clare Mallender instead of their intended victim , Alan Dysart , the junior Defence minister , by planting a bomb aboard Mr Dysart 's yacht … . |
| 20 | The IRA said later that businessmen could not escape ‘ the reality of oppression in nationalist areas of Belfast ’ and they called the Lisburn street a prestige economic target . |
| 21 | ‘ The IRA state categorically that this was not an attack on a hospital , ’ the IRA statement claimed . |
| 22 | The RUC said later that a third man had been arrested in North Belfast . |
| 23 | In an attempt to forestall or derail Microsoft Corp 's likely objections to its WABI Windows Applications Binary Interface for running Windows applications under Unix , Sun Microsystems Inc is expected to reveal at the WABI launch tomorrow that it has orchestrated a Public Windows Initiative pressure group of vendors that will attempt to force Microsoft to open up , if not make public , its future plans for the Win16 16-bit application programming interface for Windows 3.1 , this week 's issue of our sister paper Unigram.X reports . |