Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [vb past] that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the spring of 1932 the British announced that a flotilla of three destroyers was to grace the city with a visit . |
| 2 | The Poles reluctantly asked the British to cancel the visit but the British insisted that the visit should go ahead as planned . |
| 3 | He explained that the British envisaged that the union , having at its apex the European Council consisting of heads of government , would have beneath it distinct pillars of co-operation , with the Treaty of Rome and intergovernmental pillars representing respectively foreign and security policy co-operation and actions against drugs and terrorism overseen by interior and justice ministers . |
| 4 | In return for this co-operation the French asked that the child queen should be affianced not to Edward VI but to the Dauphin of France , and that she should be brought up there . |
| 5 | The French replied that the devastation and terrorism that continued was not all the fault of ‘ dissident ’ nationalist Vietnamese or bandits and although it might not have the status of an ‘ official ’ armed struggle the results were indistinguishable . |
| 6 | In Robinson [ 1977 ] Crim LR 173 ( CA ) , the accused demanded that the victim repay a debt owed by the victim 's wife to him . |
| 7 | The court held that the accused represented that the bank owed him the money and that he was entitled to withdraw it . |
| 8 | The burden of proof is shifted on to the defendant and although the prosecution does not need to prove that the accused intended that the impression be false and misleading , the defendant may need to establish that he reasonably believed that it would not be so . |
| 9 | Nobody wanted to push the struggle any further ; nobody in the 1740s imagined that a fight to the death was at hand . |
| 10 | Iraq 's expansion of the port of Umm Qasr and the development of the Rumalla oil field during the 1970s meant that a settlement of the dispute became a prime Iraqi objective . |
| 11 | Research during the 1970s showed that the concentration of service employment in southern Britain was related to the increasing dominance in the economy of large multi-site companies with their head office , administration and associated satellite suppliers near London . |
| 12 | The latter demanded that the strike be called off to avoid even worse news . |
| 13 | The latter claimed that the car was still theirs since X had never paid and property had therefore never passed to X. It was held , however , that Mr. Carter had obtained good title under section 25 . |
| 14 | The reasons for this phenomenon are varied : the tightening bonds of serfdom and the greater degree of social regimentation introduced by Peter the Great meant that a number of previously innocent practices ( tree-felling , salt-gathering , trespass , begging , vagrancy , and so on ) were criminalized and punished with hard labour and exile ; popular protest against the proliferating powers of the state in the form of minor revolts , mass insurgencies ( for example , Bulavin , Pugachev ) , large-scale banditry and escalating rates of petty crime were similarly dealt with ; the abolition of capital punishment for criminal offences in 1753 led to its replacement with ‘ civil execution ’ ( public flogging and mutilation followed by perpetual katorga ) ; and laws passed in 1766 and 1769 changed the usual place of penal servitude from Rogervik and other locations in European Russia to the silver mines and factories around Nerchinsk . |
| 15 | Hoffman LaRoche was praised as ‘ a highly competent organization with a product range of high quality ’ , but its enormous profits , sometimes as high as 60 or 70 per cent on capital employed , were held to be unjustified and the MMC recommended that the price of both Librium and Valium be halved . |
| 16 | But it was from the first emphasised that a priesthood of succession should be established through Aaron , Moses ' brother . |
| 17 | Lord President Clyde rejected both grounds and in relation to the first observed that no authority of any kind had been cited to justify it and that Attorney General v. Wilts United Dairies Ltd. , 37 T.L.R. 884 was not in point . |
| 18 | What is clear , as we shall see below from both victimisation studies and official statistics , is that the crime rate had not decreased under the Conservatives and Home Office projections for the 1990s suggested that the increase was likely to continue . |
| 19 | Under the heading ‘ A better quality of life ’ , Labour 's policy review for the 1990s declared that the future of the planet depended on keeping it at the top of the agenda : |
| 20 | The survival of the fittest meant that the struggle for life condemned millions of living creatures to starvation or violent death from many causes , not by any means the least important of which was the provision of food for other species . |
| 21 | Once the Welsh realised that the opposition was not all that great they took heart and the result was a late try which put their tails up . |