Example sentences of "[verb] [that] in [adj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Big Six , in their statement , say that in 1991 they spent 9% of auditing and accounting revenues — $477m — on settling and defending lawsuits , and repeat an estimate that the profession as a whole is currently facing $30bn in damages claims . |
| 2 | The latter 's relations with his Welsh neighbours can not always have been good , for the Annales Cambriæ say that in 1012 he led an expedition against St David 's . |
| 3 | Formerly esquire of the body to Henry the Sixth , Vaughan had become treasurer of the chamber to Edward the Fourth , by whom he was so highly regarded that in 1471 he had been appointed chamberlain to the then one-year-old Prince Edward . |
| 4 | The Letter calls him king of all England and Denmark and the Norwegians and of some of the Swedes , which if genuine implies that he already claimed Olaf 's throne , and Florence of Worcester says that in 1027 he heard that some Norwegians were discontented , sent them large quantities of gold and silver , and secured an undertaking of future support . |
| 5 | Although Keating , as Treasurer , was responsible for much of the current economic position — it was widely accepted that in 1987 he had allowed the economy to overheat , and had been forced to use high interest rates to cool it , thereby exacerbating the impact of the world recession — he was also widely perceived as the only Cabinet member with the experience and stature to provide an alternative to the leadership of Hawke . |
| 6 | We have to go back a little way to remember that in 1976 they presided over the most savage cuts ever imposed on the national health service . |
| 7 | It may be thought that in 8 we have an equation which indicates ( wrongly ) that — at is a semantic constituent : |
| 8 | Does the Prime Minister recall that in 1986 he announced the closure of DHSS resettlement centres and gave a firm promise that they would not close until alternative accommodation was available ? |
| 9 | A century later John Murray , the British ambassador in Constantinople , bitterly regretted that in 1774 he had not been able to act as mediator in the making of the Russo-Turkish peace of Kutchuk — Kainardji and thus gain the valuable presents from both sides which would have been his reward . |
| 10 | I only know that in 1990 I had to pay £20,000 or thereabouts in interest repayments alone for a business loan excluding repayment of the mortgage . |
| 11 | On retiring from Nigeria in 1955 ( constitutional changes meant that in 1954 he reassumed the title of governor-general , dormant since 1919 ) , Macpherson was chairman of the 1956 UN visiting mission to the trust territories of the Pacific . |
| 12 | He said that in 1975 we had a referendum in which it was suggested that it was an economic and trade rather than a political matter . |
| 13 | You wrote that in 1936 you bought your first painting ( still your favourite British painting ) George Stubbs 's ‘ Pumpkin with a Stable Lad ’ , immediately you saw it . |