Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adj] that [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The opposition by back-bench Conservative MPs was supported by former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher , who warned in an article in the European of Oct. 8 that Maastricht will hand over more power to unelected bureaucrats and erode the freedoms of ordinary men and women .
2 Is the Secretary of State aware that London Underground has stated that there is no limit to the number of people who wish to push themselves on to a London Underground train ?
3 The UK Government Committee of Enquiry chaired by Lord Chorley ( DoE 1987 ) on the Handling of Geographic Information suggested in recommendation 59 that GIS technology projects be promoted since the report noted that the existing interfaces to GIS systems were poor .
4 Antonio Sibacha , secretary-general of the Gabon-based opposition Union for Democracy and Social Development in Equatorial Guinea ( UDDS ) , claimed on May 4 that opposition activist Feliciano Moto had been beaten to death by guards from the presidential palace , that two other opposition activists had been arrested , and that the regime was employing the tactics of " assassination and imprisonment " .
5 The Sri Lankan presidential adviser Bradman Weerakoon said on July 6 that UK aid " in the pipeline " was continuing without interruption .
6 The US administration , in an attempt to reassure NATO allies , stated on Nov. 20 that defence spending cuts would be concentrated on US-based personnel .
7 Following the 86th OPEC Conference , Air Vice-Marshal Ginandjar Kartasasmita , the Indonesian Minister of Mines and Energy , commented on Nov. 30 that OPEC output in the first half of 1990 would probably be not less than about 22,500,000 bpd , and that the 22,086,000 bpd ceiling agreed for that period reflected a pragmatic approach which " assumed overproduction " .
8 It was announced on April 29 that Konstantin Smirnov-Ostashvili , the leader of the extreme nationalist Pamyat organization who had been sentenced in October 1990 to two years in a labour camp for anti-Semitism [ see p. 37789 ] , had hanged himself in prison .
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