Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] was [verb] that [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that in compensation it was agreed that Italy should build a hospital in Ethiopa . |
| 2 | At the same Council it was decreed that Wycliffe 's remains should be exhumed and burned , which they were . |
| 3 | As security it was agreed that Mr. O'Brien would guarantee the payment by the company of its indebtedness and that his liability under the guarantee would be secured by a second charge over the house which was believed to have an equity of about £100,000 . |
| 4 | In the September 1981 party conference it was revealed that Healey had indeed won , by the narrowest of margins , with 50.3 per cent of the popular vote ; the star of Tony Benn began to dim somewhat thereafter , not least because Michael Foot was able subtly to mount a movement of the old ( or ‘ soft ’ ) constitutionally-minded left against the ‘ hard left ’ of the neo-Marxist , unilateralist fringe . |
| 5 | At this same meeting it was reported that Charles Vial had presented 10 copies of his plan of 19 March 1790 , for establishing an institution to cultivate and teach veterinary medicine , for which thanks were to be transmitted by the secretary . |
| 6 | At about the second hour of day I was told that Kenamun would be leading the investigation . |
| 7 | On 27 December Babrak Karmal , who had been a member of the post-coup government but who had subsequently been exiled to the USSR , announced that the former president had been deposed and that he had taken power ; the following day it was announced that Hafizullah Amin had been executed for ‘ crimes against the noble people of Afghanistan ’ . |
| 8 | The following day it was revealed that Bering had chipped a bone in a knee during the race , but such was the power of his acceleration as he took up the running that he could hardly have been affected until the very final stages . |
| 9 | The next day it was reported that Henry VIII was ‘ sorry for the death of Mr Redman his mason ’ . |
| 10 | On the one hand he was receiving advice from Cardinal Barberini ( later Pope Urban VIII ) that he should steer clear of theological issues ; on the other he was advised that Cardinal Bellarmine would welcome his comments on a passage in Psalm 18 that appeared inconsistent with Copernican doctrine . |
| 11 | Last month it was revealed that Di was taped speaking on the phone to bachelor James Gilbey , who told her ‘ I love you . ’ |
| 12 | Last month it was announced that Britain will get its first new-wave trams in 1991 . |
| 13 | The day after the announcement of the new travel policy it was revealed that Bush 's former Education Secretary , Lauro Cavazos , was under criminal investigation for the abuse of air travel privileges whilst in office . |
| 14 | The learned abbot , Lupus of Ferrières , consoling the layman Einhard on the death of his wife , pointed out that God had allowed Absalom to be killed despite the prayers of David ; and Agobard , archbishop of Lyon , writing against superstition , asked Louis the Pious what use it was to suppose that God would always show up the just in judicial ordeals , when he had allowed Josiah to perish in battle against the Egyptians . |
| 15 | In a story in yesterday 's Daily Mirror it was claimed that Arsenal centre-half Andy Linighan made the remark , including a comment about Adolf Hitler , after he refused to pay the fare to taxi driver Harry Levy . |
| 16 | The purchaser of Caliban was expressed to be Mr. Perot 's son , Mr. Perot junior ; at one stage during the negotiation of the contract it was suggested that Mr. Perot 's daughters would be the purchasers . |
| 17 | Both sides made concessions , and under the terms of the protocol it was agreed that President Juvénal Habyarimana would share executive power with a new transitional Cabinet made up of a maximum of two ministers from each political party , including the FPR , and headed by a prime minister . |
| 18 | On receipt of the reply from the employer it was stated that Mr. Docherty had been dismissed for misconduct . |
| 19 | When I started my enquiries into our family history I was told that Mary Kell was two years older than George Webster and that she had previously been engaged to his elder brother who had died before they could marry . |
| 20 | Earlier this year it was reported that Miss Steel 's books had sold ‘ more than 100 million ’ . |
| 21 | At the end of the year it was agreed that Somerville would share Wadham 's Sports Ground from 1991 . |
| 22 | At the ship 's office I was informed that Sir George Clerk , the British Ambassador , had sent a message that as soon as I landed I was to call on him at the Embassy . |
| 23 | For some time it was suspected that Camp Mill was the site , but this now appears unlikely . |
| 24 | The letter , ‘ I ca n't forgo principles ’ , was reportedly published at the behest of Ligachev and for some time it was believed that Andreeva was the pseudonym of a conservative member of the leadership . |
| 25 | For a long time it was felt that Agrippa was the builder , and later that his portico had been reerected in the later building . |
| 26 | By the time it was discovered that Smith had used the money to develop the bank accounts of local bookies and the jewellery collections of local ladies of ill repute , it was too late . |
| 27 | At the end of the visit it was announced that Japan was to provide Mongolia with US$15,000,000 in grants and $100 million in export guarantees . |
| 28 | During the course of the visit it was reported that US Secretary of State James Baker had made it known that the USA rejected recent suggestions that it should alter its deployment of nuclear weapons currently sited in South Korea as an inducement to North Korea to allow international inspection . |
| 29 | During the visit it was agreed that Japan would provide 129,000 million yen ( about US$930 million ) of official development assistance loans to China in 1991 . |
| 30 | During subsequent interrogation it was revealed that Ann Lynn had made a rendezvous during the night with a Dutch cargo vessel , had stowed the contraband below for later disposal , and calmly taken out the anglers for a day 's fishing before unloading the loot . |