Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] [adj] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Antonio Sibacha , secretary-general of the Gabon-based opposition Union for Democracy and Social Development in Equatorial Guinea ( UDDS ) , claimed on May 4 that opposition activist Feliciano Moto had been beaten to death by guards from the presidential palace , that two other opposition activists had been arrested , and that the regime was employing the tactics of " assassination and imprisonment " . |
| 2 | The government claimed on Jan. 16 that security forces had destroyed the rebels ' headquarters , but on the following day the BRA staged one of its most spectacular actions to date when it attacked the island 's prison , releasing all Bougainville inmates and killing five prison officers . |
| 3 | We noted in Chapter 13 that consumption was around 50% of total final expenditure ( TFE ) in 1991 . |
| 4 | It will be seen in Chapter 5 that city bureaux also make links with local libraries , but in the main they are arranging to share local information rather than develop the self-service information service as in the rural communities . |
| 5 | The same type of modification is seen on shrews ( it will be seen in Chapter 3 that evidence of digestion occurs earlier on vole teeth than on mice or shrews ) , and flaking and penetration of limb bones is also common ( Fig. 1.13 G-H ) . |
| 6 | The fact that both these forms of aphasia are frequently observed suggests that there are separate systems for perceiving and producing speech ; and we have already seen in Chapter 6 that research on normal subjects suggests the same conclusion . |
| 7 | We shall see in Section 5.7 that symmetry considerations allow us to decide which vibrational modes will lead to Raman scattering . |
| 8 | We can see from Fig. 6.11 that excitation is to vibrational levels of the ion whose wavefunctions give high probabilities for the inter-atomic distance found in the neutral molecule , and so overlap the ground-state wavefunction . |
| 9 | In the urban fringe it has already been shown in Chapter 3 that recreation can have an adverse impact on farming , but other work has shown that the 500 or so informal recreation sites which cover 5.7 per cent of London 's Green Belt ( Ferguson and Munton , 1979 ) are not heavily used by either car-owing suburban dwellers ( who leapfrog over the green belt into so-called proper countryside since they perceive the sites as being too near to be worthy of a special car trip ) or by carless inner city residents ( who spurn the use of public transport ) ( Harrison , 1983 ) . |
| 10 | President Patricio Aylwin Azócar stated on Nov. 6 that Army appointments he had made on Oct. 31 could " not be contested constitutionally " and that Pinochet was " finding it hard to play the role he chose , that of Army C.-in-C. , subordinate to the President " . |
| 11 | While stating in paragraph fourteen that development plans should make no reference to the possibility of allowing other development in exceptional circumstances , nowhere in the P P G does it suggest that the authority should exclude the possibility that very special circumstances could justify an exception to be made . |
| 12 | It was noted in Section 18.1 that transition can occur without this process . |
| 13 | Viljoen warned on Aug. 26 that violence and intimidation had to end before negotiations on a new constitution could begin . |
| 14 | The UN Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) warned on Feb. 26 that drought in southern Africa could result in famine throughout the region . |
| 15 | With a succession of international airlines reporting poor profits in March , Günter Eser , the director-general of the International Air Transport Association , estimated on March 15 that IATA members had lost more than $2,000 million during 1990 because of falling bookings associated with the Gulf crisis , and because of soaring aviation fuel costs . |
| 16 | The US ambassador in Belgrade asserted on May 21 that Secretary of State James Baker could still revoke the decision , especially if the presidency issue was resolved quickly . |
| 17 | Prince Bola Ajibola , the Minister of Justice and federal Attorney General , confirmed on Sept. 12 that power would be handed to a civilian administration on Oct. 1 , 1992 , as planned , in spite of adjustments to the interim timetable . |
| 18 | Prime Minister Oscar de la Puente Raygada of the " national and emergency " government , installed following the presidential coup of April 5 [ see pp. 38846-47 ] , confirmed on June 27 that opposition parties had been invited " separately " , and not as a bloc , to participate in a dialogue on the country 's political future starting on June 30 . |
| 19 | At the same time Major announced a cut of 1 percentage point in the minimum lending rate , to 14 per cent , and said on Oct. 7 that revaluation of the pound within the ERM was a possible alternative to further interest rate cuts if the pound reached the top of its permitted fluctuation range . |
| 20 | The Iranian authorities said on June 22 that help would be welcome from any source except South Africa and Israel , and on June 24 the Foreign Ministry confirmed that acceptable sources included the United States . |
| 21 | The US administration , in an attempt to reassure NATO allies , stated on Nov. 20 that defence spending cuts would be concentrated on US-based personnel . |
| 22 | President George Bush , a leading advocate of such an amendment , stated on June 12 that flag burning " endangers the fabric of our country " and that " what the flag encapsulates is too sacred to be abused " . |
| 23 | : We concluded in Note 4 that department Z will not incur further variable overhead costs . |