Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] that the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We talked about Niki in Austria and from that conversation I realized that the two drivers were reverse medals of each other and that if you could combine the two , you would probably have the perfect driver . |
| 2 | Afterwards I learned that the three men were actors , part of a company called The Theatre of the Tube . |
| 3 | She knew that the one thing that her mother would never provide money for was a training in medicine , so she wrote eventually to the Boys ' Own Paper to ask them how to go about it , inventing a letter that was supposed to come from a badly-off boy whom she thought would enlist their sympathy . |
| 4 | She explained that the three parish representatives had its interest at heart at meetings . |
| 5 | When we submitted our first Report on the primary stages we recommended that the three profile components , speaking and listening , reading and writing , should be weighted equally in the assessment process . |
| 6 | Moreover , we observed that the -40 region on the upper strand and the -43 region on the lower strand ( data not shown ) were much more accessible to hydroxyl-radical cleavage when complexed with the α-C deleted enzymes ( Fig. 3b rows 3 and 4 ) than with the wild-type enzyme ( Fig. 3b row 2 ) . |
| 7 | We knew that the one way to get the world 's two greatest detectives to come here would be to stage a mysterious disappearance . |
| 8 | In the end they agreed that the 120 commissioners should hold their meetings in the church of St-Castor at Koblenz , lodging each night on opposite sides of the Rhine " to forestall outbreaks of fighting between the commissioners ' men " . |
| 9 | They found that the two parents claim and defend a territory of a few square metres in the shallow stream in which they live . |
| 10 | They found that the two measures did not separately hold any predictive value , but in combination they discriminated well between families in which a child developed some schizophrenic symptoms and those whose child remained free of such symptoms . |
| 11 | They claimed that the two laboratory investigations performed on the painting since it was slashed with a Stanley knife in 1986 showed discrepancies which seriously undermined their validity . |
| 12 | At a banquet hosted by Yang Shangkun on Nov. 1 Nixon described the June crackdown as " excessive and unjustified " , saying that it had damaged US respect and confidence in the Chinese leadership and , speaking to Li Peng , he argued that the two countries ' differences over the events in June were " huge and unbridgeable " , but that Sino-US relations should not be allowed to founder over the issue . |
| 13 | In his youth he was taught , in accordance with Hindu custom , to repeat the thousand names of God , but he realized that the thousand names of God were not exhaustive and that while God has many names and many forms he is also nameless and formless . |
| 14 | It recommended that the three Belfast teacher training colleges come together on a single site . |
| 15 | But as we have seen , Bukharin argued that such a method was quite wrong , since it presupposed that the two sectors were wholly antagonistic , whereas they formed a contradictory unity , a living totality . |
| 16 | It maintained that the two elements taken together constituted the record and the material must be retained in a way that includes all the pertinent information . |
| 17 | But it helped that the one Test forward was Paul Ackford who , still less than a year into his international career , is a phenomenon , consistently winning his own line-out ball , securing kick-offs and loose possession , and cover-tackling more in the manner of a flanker than a lock . |
| 18 | Although it recognised that the eight areas of experience were important , the secondary school curriculum was discussed largely in terms of subjects because that is how secondary education is organised . |
| 19 | On Feb. 1 the Greek and Turkish Prime Ministers , respectively Konstantinos Mitsotakis and Suleyman Demirel , jointly issued a seven-point communiqué during the World Economic Forum in Davos , Switzerland [ see p. 38795 ] ; it noted that the two governments were planning to conclude an accord of friendship and co-operation later in the year and that they were working together towards a negotiated settlement of the Cyprus issue under UN auspices . |
| 20 | He added that the 20 staff were giving their ‘ complete co-operation ’ but were ‘ philosophical ’ about the eventual outcome . |
| 21 | He believed that the two operations could be run with the staff of about ten employed by Pittencrieff at its office in Abilene , Texas , after closing Aberdeen 's office in Denver , Colorado , which has between ten and 15 staff . |
| 22 | After his walkout Paisley stated that the DUP would not rejoin the talks until discussion of Articles 2 and 3 of the Irish Republic 's Constitution , which established a territorial claim to Northern Ireland , was given priority , and he claimed that the two Articles had been placed " at the bottom of the agenda " . |
| 23 | He forecast that the 1992 grain harvest would be better than the previous year , and could guarantee that the people would not go hungry during the winter . |
| 24 | At first , early in 1950 , he feared that the two countries were heading for a " complete showdown " over the world 's economic problems . |
| 25 | But yesterday it emerged that the four judges had written to Mr Tony Byrne , BAFTA president , saying they had voted for GBH , the Alan Bleasdale drama starring Robert Lindsay as leader of a corrupt city council . |
| 26 | But yesterday it emerged that the four judges had written to Mr Tony Byrne , BAFTA president , saying they had voted for GBH , the Alan Bleasdale drama starring Robert Lindsay as leader of a corrupt city council . |
| 27 | He said that the two elephants had to be kept apart and they were increasingly confined to avoid fighting . |
| 28 | He suggested that the two SBS men should attack the harbour wireless station instead while his men would concentrate on the actual port installations . |
| 29 | Speaking at the Institute of Strategic Studies in London , he suggested that the 12 EC member countries should make a mutual defence pledge ( as in the Brussels Treaty of the Western European Union — WEU — comprising all EC members except Denmark , Greece and Ireland ) and develop a common policy on weapons research and production . |
| 30 | To his credit , Cheniere did attempt a conciliatory gesture when he suggested that the three adolescents could wear their scarves at school outside class hours . |