Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only this January that the Canadian government stepped in to prop up the project taking a 6.5 per cent share which has subsequently been sold to the Murphy Oil Company of Arkansas . |
| 2 | Since the news in early March that the leading party in the Basque parliament , the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) was , controversially , in a process of negotiation with ETA 's political wing , Herri Batasuna , there had been increasing speculation that the Spanish government might be considering negotiating a settlement with more moderate elements within the ETA leadership . |
| 3 | However , Kookai told ACCOUNTANCY in early December that the new backers and Mr Chapman have parted company ; he has left Kookai . |
| 4 | Among the developed industrial countries generally it was mainly in the former communist societies of Eastern Europe that the repressive functions of the state were still prominent against a similar background of economic planning and provision of welfare services . |
| 5 | In view of the evident division of opinion among Ministers , it was suggested at the meeting of the Cabinet on 19th June that the best course would be to introduce the Criminal Justice Bill without any provision abolishing capital punishment and to explain in the Second Reading Debate that since the question of capital punishment was one on which there were differences of opinion transcending Party lines , the Government felt that the matter should be left to a free vote on the Report Stage of the Bill . |
| 6 | On the very Sunday that the new church opened we looked in vain for the empty seats in St Luke 's : it seemed that God had given to us at the mother church a new group of people who had either moved into the area or who were to be converted and we saw the truth of the saying : ‘ Give and it will be given to you , pressed down and running over . ’ |
| 7 | After much argument it was agreed on 6 April that the two sides would prepare lists of groups to be approached . |
| 8 | In a belated attempt at conciliation , the Japanese Government announced in mid September that the drift-net fleet in the Tasman Sea for the 1989–90 season would be reduced to 20 vessels , in the hope that the South Pacific nations could be diverted from their diplomatic assault . |
| 9 | And new hope — ‘ utopian expectations ’ according to one report — arose again following the announcements on 16 June that the long-awaited retaliation had begun with the firing of the first VI missiles on London and parts of southern England . |
| 10 | Michael Heseltine , the former British Defence Secretary , warned the Royal Institute of International Affairs on 23 November that the Soviet Union had identified environmental anxieties in Western Europe and the United States as offering an opportunity for mischief-making . |
| 11 | It was presumably from present-day Manchuria that the Tungus tribes gradually spread northwards to pervade the taiga as far as the Arctic zone , from the Sea of Okhotsk in the east to the Yenisei in the west . |
| 12 | Instead , it was in western Europe that the mechanical clock first appeared and with it a new type of civilization based on the measurement of time . |
| 13 | After an extended process of negotiation Gorbachev was able to announce on 24 July that the nine republics had reached agreement on a new treaty of this kind , bringing into being a ‘ Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics ’ in place of the overcentralised association of the recent past . |
| 14 | William Langdon , Hodge 's political adviser , told Byrnes on 20 November that the Korean people had always been a distinct nation except for the short colonial period and possessed high literacy , cultural and living standards , when judged by Asiatic or Middle Eastern standards : if trusteeship was approved , it would have to be supported by force . |
| 15 | The social panic surrounding the emergence of the Teddy Boys formed part of a much wider structure of feeling in 1950s Britain that the social changes wrought on the postwar world were destroying the old ‘ British way of life ’ and the former civility of the British people , and the Teds were understood to be symptomatic of these social alterations . |