Example sentences of "[noun prp] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We believed the rumour on Tuesday that British Aerospace was building up a big shareholding but we are not so sure now , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend the Minister of State announced on Saturday that extra troops would soon arrive . |
| 3 | Each Friday that shy stub is ritualistically lit by the Ekeko 's guardian — in this case a writer , intellectual and left-wing politician . |
| 4 | When the Goncourt brothers noted in their Journal in the 1860s that the new Paris resembled ‘ some future American Babylon ’ , they were nearer to the truth than they knew , though they got it the wrong way round , for it was in many of the cities of the United States that French influence was predominant . |
| 5 | Partly because of this kind of situation , it is generally accepted in the United States that conventional credit scoring systems do not reliably discriminate between good and bad payers either among people on very low incomes or among people in the 18 to 25 age group . |
| 6 | If one agrees with the view of Sharpe , White , , and Bernard that prior to 1625 predestination had merely been one of a number of alternative doctrines vying for supremacy within the church , the rise to power of the Laudians represented little more than another swing of a theological pendulum which had been fluctuating wildly since 1560 . |
| 7 | There is more evidence in Germany that domestic inflationary pressures due to buoyant growth and expected fiscal stimulus for next year will leave little room for relaxation on the interest rate front . |
| 8 | Alternatively they can argue with Lenin that liberal democracy is the best possible shell for capitalism . |
| 9 | ‘ There is a groundswell of opinion in Scotland that urgent legislation is needed to curb the carrying of these weapons , ’ Mr McFall said . |
| 10 | In August Göring told Lipski that certain anti-German incidents along the Polish border were poisoning the atmosphere and that Poles were conspiring to interfere with the work of the League in Danzig . |
| 11 | Mr Geoffrey Hillcoat , Durham county council group traffic manager for road safety , told Darlington Cycling Forum on Monday that serious accidents in the town accounted for almost half of all the cycle injuries in the county last year . |
| 12 | The Detroit News reported on Monday that continuing disputes with other top brass helped persuade York to accept the IBM offer . |
| 13 | Delegates voted by a large majority for the immediate introduction of a multiparty system , emphatically rejecting a proposal by Bongo that democratic pluralism be introduced over a three- to five-year period ; delegates also rejected Bongo 's proposal for a new single party , the Gabonese Social Democratic Rally ( RSDG ) [ ibid. ] , encompassing various political groupings , which was to have replaced the Gabonese Democratic Party ( PDG ) , the sole legal party since 1968 . |
| 14 | The Institute of Directors , the CBI and some chartered accountants in business are critical of the suggestion in Cadbury that non-executive directors should have much enhanced responsibilities to check and balance the power of the executive board . |
| 15 | Claims by McEwan that undue weight is being placed on the episode strike one as disingenuous . |
| 16 | In 1983 production increased from 58.3 MTOE ( 1982 ) to 61.5 MTOE and the Netherlands proposed to Britain that Dutch gas could replace Norwegian should the two parties be unable to reach an agreement on Sleipner as subsequently proved to be the case . |
| 17 | Diffusion of responsibility occurs to such a degree in Japan that outright blame is not easily assigned . |
| 18 | The airlines clearly believe that they can hang on to their lucrative business market despite evidence from France that high speed trains can have a major impact on travel preferences . |
| 19 | There was a general statement throughout Rhodesia that African girls could not do maths . |