Example sentences of "[that] [noun prp] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tradition tells that Peden told the new bride to — . |
| 2 | Considering he was joining an honour roll that included his big brother John , it was somehow fitting that Patrick played the leading role in the two-hour 48-minute finale to the grand prix circuit which saw the younger McEnroe and Jim Grabb dismiss the more experienced Anders Jarryd and John Fitzgerald 7-5 , 7-6 , 5-7 , 6-3 . |
| 3 | Thus it was argued that William had a legitimate title to the throne because he won it by right of conquest in a just war . |
| 4 | Ian Glick QC , for Walker Greenbank , told the court that WG acquired a private shelving company , Alkar , in January 1987 , agreeing to pay its owners , Alan and William Carr , an initial amount of £2.2m in WG shares followed by a series of payments which would be linked to Alkar 's profit performance . |
| 5 | In June the government stated that Romania had no territorial claims on Yugoslavia . |
| 6 | Foreign Affairs Minister Adrian Nastase affirmed to Parliament on June 24 , however , that Romania had no territorial ambitions toward the Soviet Union , and added that it " had to accept the idea that there are two Moldavian nations developing in their separate directions " . |
| 7 | A witness , Andrew Swanick , told Bristol Crown Court that Kelly took an arrow-shaped knuckle duster knife to work the day before the incident happened . |
| 8 | It was no wonder that Hercules seemed an apt role-model . |
| 9 | I thought that Heathcliffe had no redeeming features at all . |
| 10 | There are persistent claims that Churchill sent a small group of secret agents to France outside SOE operations but , because no documentation exists , these claims are ridiculed by self-professed experts . |
| 11 | Davies points out that Gorbachev took a conservative attitude to Soviet history for the first 18 months of his time in power . |
| 12 | Mr Ceausescu had encased himself in such an impeneterable fortress that Gorbachev spared the Romanian leader from the warning he was to deliver later to Erich Honecker , that ageing leaders who failed to reform in time would pay dearly . |
| 13 | They received the news silently , unwilling to concede that Woolley had a good reason for doing anything . |
| 14 | John Hargreaves , prosecuting , said that Bulmer had a long list of previous convictions . |
| 15 | Figures released by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) showed that Afghanistan recorded a visible trade deficit of US$220,600,000 in 1989 and a deficit of US$217,100,000 on the current account of its balance of payments . |
| 16 | At Virgin , over and above establishing more centralised management functions ‘ my role was to ensure we were informal but not casual , to the extent that Richard had a limited number of objectives we were committed to spending money on , based on a view of ; the company and the things we had to do well ’ , he said . |
| 17 | Despite the conflicting accounts it is clear that Richard had the upper hand and that William des Barres lost his valuable war-horse . |
| 18 | This night , while it was not one of their magical occasions , neither had any real complaints but in their natural preoccupation they both forgot that Bobby had a dislocated knee ! |
| 19 | We know that Brahms kept a keen eye open for new music , and that he knew Rheinberger — what I wonder is whether it was the Rheinberger Sonata that suggested to Brahms the form for the last movement of his Symphony ? |
| 20 | It was because he saw them as offering more regular and more worthwhile employment for children than could be found in the agricultural districts , with only seasonal and low-paid needs , that Defoe praised the woollen areas . |
| 21 | Bartholomew was the most senior US official to visit Pakistan since October 1990 when the US Congress suspended economic and military assistance to Pakistan after it could not certify that Pakistan had no nuclear weapons programme . |
| 22 | This recognises that Pakistan played a significant role in the conflict through its assistance to Afghanistan resistance forces and in receiving Afghan refugees . |
| 23 | Historians have suggested that Byzantium followed a different path from Western Europe with economic decline starting in the eleventh century . |
| 24 | It was against this background that Caedwalla attacked the southern Saxons . |
| 25 | It is now widely acknowledged that Keynes accepted the classical theory of the demand for labour in the form of marginal productivity theory . |
| 26 | In the case of general unemployment where the required fall in the real wage rate — the reader will recall that Keynes accepted the marginal productivity theory of the demand for labour — would not be forthcoming even if perfect competition were the rule in all markets . |
| 27 | In 1968 , Benn 's desire to sell Romania sophisticated jet-engines was frustrated ‘ despite the fact that Ceauşescu made a courageous speech attacking the invasion of Czechoslovakia . ’ |
| 28 | Addressing the congress on the opening day , Hungarian Prime Minister Jozsef Antall reiterated that Hungary had no territorial claims on neighbouring countries but also said that the Hungarian government had a duty ( stated in the Constitution ) to protect the interests of " Hungarians living beyond the borders " . |
| 29 | It was at that meeting that Dista proposed a new wording for the Data sheet — the standard form of recommendation to doctors on how a drug should be administered . |
| 30 | Emily was astute enough to recognize that Hari had a singular talent , a fine touch for design that eluded most men . |