Example sentences of "that it [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some reports suggested that it had survived what was described as the fourth attempted coup since Bashir took power from the government of Sadiq el-Mahdi in June 1989 [ see p. 36728 ] . |
| 2 | Hamilton Oil revealed yesterday that it had handled almost 5,000 applications already , many arriving before the announcement of the go-ahead for the massive project . |
| 3 | Hamilton Oil revealed yesterday that it had handled almost 5,000 applications already , many arriving before the announcement of the go-ahead for the massive project . |
| 4 | How pitiful , that it had fallen so low . |
| 5 | A branch of the great plane tree had come down in the wind and as he ran back towards the Cages he saw that it had fallen right across the path where moments before he had been standing . |
| 6 | If anyone did , the logical explanation was that it had fallen off . |
| 7 | At the beginning of December a Time-CNN poll gave his approval rating as 46 per cent , the first time throughout his entire presidency that it had fallen below 50 per cent . |
| 8 | She wished frantically to go faster , and the broomstick sped away ; but as it spurted past , the weathercock made a savage peck at it , and Carol , glancing round , saw that it had snatched a bunch of twigs out with its beak . |
| 9 | Lonrho last night reiterated its claim that it had received the copy of the report in a brown paper envelope . |
| 10 | Once the client was in a position to show that it had received independent legal advice to the effect that the law was uncertain it went ahead alone to achieve its chosen objective . |
| 11 | Here the new head had recently approached the teacher-librarian in the hope that the school might become involved in the ESSE/L Project , apparently unaware that it had received a Minor award three or so years before . |
| 12 | However , Inravision Television in Bogotá reported on Aug. 13 that it had received a faxed message from the cartel which stated that the truce would remain in force . |
| 13 | He was believed by Iran to have been secretly detained by Iraq ; the latter maintained , however , that he had died while under detention , a claim supported by the ICRC which , in September , indicated that it had received his death certificate . |
| 14 | On April 25 the UNHCR said that it had received only $43,000,000 of the $238,500,000 it had requested as aid for Kurdish refugees . |
| 15 | AFP reported that it had received the information from the Paris-based dissident group , the Federation for Democracy in China . |
| 16 | Amnesty said that the torture of those detained by the army and police was a daily routine , and that it had received reports of more than 200 cases of torture over the past two years , but believed the true figure to be much higher . |
| 17 | The former communist party , now the Socialist Democracy of the Republic of Poland ( SDRP ) confirmed on Nov. 7 that it had received an interest-free loan worth more than US$1,200,000 in January 1990 from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) . |
| 18 | The Bolivian Workers ' Centre ( COB ) , the main union confederation , contacted the Spanish news agency EFE on March 9 to report that it had received communiqués from the Bolivarián Military Movement ( MMB ) , a dissident grouping within the military , which claimed that " discontented " elements within the army were willing to follow the example of fellow officers in Venezuela [ for Venezuela coup attempt see pp. 38759-60 ] to stem corruption in the government and the higher echelons of the armed forces . |
| 19 | Radio France Internationale reported the same day that it had received a communication from the leaders of three Togolese opposition parties protesting that ( the above ) key portfolios had gone to members of Eyadema 's party , the Togolese People 's Rally ( RPT ) , and calling on the HCR not to ratify the list . |
| 20 | On 15th July the company announced that it had received elections accepting the Enhanced Scrip Dividend Alternative from the holders of 177,631,159 ordinary shares in Johnson Matthey . |
| 21 | Furnas insisted that the most recent stoppage was for routine maintenance until Greenpeace made public information about the incident that it had received from a worker at the plant , later confirmed by the Brazilian nuclear energy commission . |
| 22 | UNITED Biscuits , the Edinburgh-based group which is Britain 's biggest biscuits and snacks manufacturer , yesterday confirmed that it had received a serious approach for its Terry 's chocolate company . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A source within the fraud squad confirmed that it had received helpful information from Mr Hann at an early stage . |
| 25 | According to the conventional wisdom , fusion required great heat and hence could only have happened when the Earth was being formed ; however , if the Earth is five billion years old , all the helium would by now have risen away , yet it was there in amounts suggesting that it had appeared in the atmosphere only recently . |
| 26 | Between them — or , more accurately , forming a triangle with them — is an eighth-magnitude star , named Sidus Ludovicianum in 1723 by courtiers of the Emperor Ludwig V , who believed that it had appeared suddenly . |
| 27 | The Central Bank of Iraq announced on Sept. 10 , 1989 , that it had imposed a 1 per cent increase in interest rates on savings deposits and bank loans , the first such increase for over eight years . |
| 28 | The government also stressed its record of liberalizing the economy and five years of continuous growth , while Labour claimed that it had mismanaged the public finances by allowing the national debt to double . |
| 29 | It called on Libya to show with " concrete measures " that it had renounced the use of terrorist methods . |
| 30 | The official Libyan news agency JANA issued a statement on May 14 to the effect that Libya would take three steps in order to comply with that part of UN Security Council Resolution 748 of March 1992 which had called on Libya to take concrete measure showing that it had renounced the use of " terrorism " [ see pp. 38839 ; 38884 ] . |