Example sentences of "[that] it [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Lonrho last night reiterated its claim that it had received the copy of the report in a brown paper envelope . |
| 4 | AFP reported that it had received the information from the Paris-based dissident group , the Federation for Democracy in China . |
| 5 | It called on Libya to show with " concrete measures " that it had renounced the use of terrorist methods . |
| 6 | 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 ] . |
| 7 | Last week , a group from Boston 's Joslin diabetes centre announced that it had devised a blood test that can identify children most at risk . |
| 8 | The filmed evidence of Barry smoking crack was undermined by the prevalent opinion that the FBI " sting " operation — in which Moore lured Barry to the hotel and offered him crack — had been over-zealous to the point that it had constituted a form of entrapment . |
| 9 | The Railway Gazette reported that it had become an attraction to sightseers , rather like the early days at the first Euston and at the inauguration of the great European and American stations . |
| 10 | It said it was also satisfied that it had challenged the assumption that AWA was doing anything other than ‘ evidenced ’ policy when its losses were incurred . |
| 11 | One of the unpleasant by-products of this affair was that it had blighted the beginnings of a friendship . |
| 12 | There can be no doubt that this course has heightened the management skills of some of those working in the voluntary sector , but an extra benefit is that it had widened the links between I B M and you , and widened the understanding between both of us . |
| 13 | In Maharashtra a group of Shiv Sena members of the legislative assembly , led by Chhagan Bhujpal , announced on Dec. 10 that it had formed the Shiv Sena ( B ) ; on Dec. 21 Bhujpal was appointed a Cabinet minister in the state government . |
| 14 | For fear of losing one or two sales of its obsolete mainframes , IBM designed the RT so badly that it had to junk the machine completely and start again from scratch to create the ( incompatible ) RS/6000 . |
| 15 | In December , the World Food Programme announced that it had reached an agreement with the government and the EPLF to reopen the port [ see p. 37907 ] . |
| 16 | Taiwan announced on Sept. 8 that it had reached an accord with Russia to exchange unofficial representative offices , on the lines of the model used by Japan and the USA for unofficial representation in Taiwan . |
| 17 | In November Waterstones had declared that it had terminated the concession , giving six months ' notice . |
| 18 | The Crown admitted that the judge 's direction as to the effect of good character was flawed in the manner contended for by the defendant but , adopting the view of the Court of Appeal , while admitting the error , contended that it had caused no injustice . |
| 19 | The first was the assumption that a ‘ form of words ’ which did not amend the text of the Treaty would be sufficient for the Danish Government to be able to claim that it had satisfied the wishes of the people as expressed in the referendum . |
| 20 | In Luxembourg the government announced on Feb. 11 that it had authorized the USA to use its airport for the transit of materiel , troops and casualties . |
| 21 | The council said that it had deposed the President , abolishing his office , and had suspended parliament pending new elections . |
| 22 | The Ministry of the Interior had announced on June 11 that it had discovered a plot to assassinate Chamorro , Lacayo and the Army C.-in-C. , Gen. Humberto Ortega Saavedra . |
| 23 | On Aug. 1 the government announced that it had discovered a coup plot . |
| 24 | Last November the company admitted that it had discovered a series of accounting errors by the subsidiary 's finance director that had overstated stock figures to boost profits from 1989 . |
| 25 | Buxton believed that it had lost the confidence and interest of the country because of its practice of negotiating secretly with ministers instead of acting in the open . |
| 26 | Yesterday , the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate said that it had rejected the company 's plan to return Trawsfynydd 's reactor one to operation for six months of tests . |
| 27 | Instead , by separating transmission from both generation and transmission , the government showed that it had rejected the dangers of efficiency losses due to fragmentation in favour of the potential benefits of competition . |
| 28 | But , on balance , the government seemed able to claim that it had turned the tide , albeit with the aid of £2 billions from North Sea oil to swing the balance into surplus . |
| 29 | Public Information Minister Choi Chang Yoon claimed that it had turned the tide in the government 's struggle with the latest wave of student unrest , the worst to have been experienced by the Roh administration . |
| 30 | Sometimes the dog would bark for no apparent reason and they assumed that it had sensed a wildcat or a leopard stealing up in silence through the darkness . |