Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] that [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones has given talks about muon catalysed fusion all over the USA and in Europe , so it is ironic that it was after speaking at his new home institution , Brigham Young University , on 12 March 1986 that the seminal interaction occurred with Paul Palmer . |
| 2 | Dinesh Goswami , the Minister of Law and Justice , announced on Jan. 12 that the central government had decided to oppose the US$470,000,000 settlement between the Gandhi government and the US company Union Carbide Corp . |
| 3 | An Afghan Foreign Ministry spokesman announced on Jan. 12 that the French government had declared its intention to become the first western government to reopen its embassy in Kabul . |
| 4 | Claims by FORD members at a press conference on Jan. 11 that a military coup was being prepared to stifle the democracy movement were dismissed by the government as " malicious rumours " . |
| 5 | An international commission ruled in Washington DC on Jan. 11 that the Chilean government should pay just over US$2,600,000 in compensation to the families of Orlando Letelier , a former Foreign and Defence Minister and ambassador to the United States under the 1970-73 Allende government , and his US associate , Ronni Moffit . |
| 6 | German officials reported on Jan. 29 that a German freighter , the Godewind , bound from Szczecin in Poland for Syria , had been found to be carrying 16 Czechoslovak-made T-72 tanks for the Syrian armed forces , apparently in contravention of the Czechoslovak government 's promise to end such transactions . |
| 7 | However , he informed a parliament committee meeting on Jan. 9 that the central government was " working on a comprehensive action plan for revamping the administration in Punjab " , and did not rule out amending the Constitution to provide for more autonomy as long as all other political parties co-operated in the matter . |
| 8 | The Russian Constitutional Court had ruled on Jan. 14 that the merged ministry " runs counter to the separation of legislative , executive and judicial powers established by the Russian Federation " . |
| 9 | Equally , each member of staff may make a claim under s 198(1) , ICTA 1988 that an equivalent amount should be allowed as an expense in his or her Sch E assessment . |
| 10 | Moscow radio said on March 26 that the Soviet Union would complete the withdrawal of all Soviet forces by May 26 , ahead of the planned schedule agreed in February 1990 [ see p. 37258 ] . |
| 11 | A former employee of the Soviet KGB ( state security committee ) declared on Swedish television on March 10 that the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg , who had enabled thousands of Hungarian Jews to escape deportation to concentration camps during the Second World War , and who disappeared after his arrest by the Soviet military in Budapest in 1945 , had died in 1947 during a prison interrogation [ see also p. 37162 ] . |
| 12 | AFP , quoting official Lebanese sources , reported on Aug. 22 that an Israeli navigator , Ron Arad , was alive , but that the other six servicemen were dead . |
| 13 | It had been agreed on July 12 that the central committee would comprise 398 members . |
| 14 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) announced in a press release of July 12 that the Mongolian government had filed an application to join the IMF which would be considered " in accordance with prescribed procedures " . |
| 15 | After an optimistic report on May 30 that an official announcement would be made soon by Brooke stating that formal talks would be forthcoming between the principal constitutional parties about the political future of the province , Brook was on July 5 able to give to the House of Commons only an abridged version of the statement he had hope to make . |
| 16 | It was reported on Aug. 30 that the Sacred Union had decided to end its boycott . |
| 17 | It was reported on Aug. 12 that the Waitangi Tribunal , New Zealand 's powerful advisory body on Maori affairs , had recommended that ownership of most of the fisheries of the country 's South Island should be transferred to the Ngai Tahu , one of the country 's smallest Maori tribes . |
| 18 | Inquiries were set up in both cases , while Haughey announced on Sept. 22 that a serious fraud agency was to be established . |
| 19 | Indonesia was elected to chair the NAM for the period from 1992 to 1995 , and it was announced on Sept. 22 that the Indonesian capital Jakarta would host the 10th summit of the movement 's heads of state in 1992 , Nicaragua having withdrawn its application at the last moment . |
| 20 | It was announced on Sept. 2 that the Moldovan government had established a council to co-ordinate economic relations with Romania , presided over by Bulgarian First Deputy Prime Minister Nicolae Andronaci and including ministers and directors of enterprises and banking institutions . |
| 21 | Unemployment for 1990/91 was officially just below 8 per cent , although labour representatives claimed in February 1991 that the true unemployment figure was between 12 and 15 per cent . |
| 22 | It was reported on July 10 that a supradepartmental committee to oversee the use and conservation of land in Kazakhstan had been established . |
| 23 | It was reported on Aug. 26 that the chief administrator of the CPSU , responsible for party finances , Nikolai Kryuchina , had committed suicide . |
| 24 | Ignaz Kiechle , the West German Agriculture Minister , also announced on Sept. 10 that the Soviet Union was to buy surplus East German agricultural produce worth DM1,000 million and including 255,000 tonnes of meat , 60,000 tonnes of butter , 60,000 tonnes of wheat flour and 1,000 million cigarettes [ see p. 37663 for Soviet cigarette shortage ] . |
| 25 | Negotiations between employers and the trade union IG Medien for the introduction of a 35-hour week in the printing industry , coupled with salary increases of 10.5 per cent , ended without success in early May and wildcat strikes were staged , but an arbitration commission recommended on May 7 that a 35-hour week should be introduced in one stage as from April 1 , 1995 , coupled with a salary increase of 6.8 per cent for 1990 . |
| 26 | The Kazakh leadership , originally a strong supporter of unified Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) armed forces , announced on May 7 that the republican State Defence Committee had become the Kazakh Defence Ministry . |
| 27 | The former Pakistani Foreign Minister , Agha Shahi , suggested similarly in December 1984 that the strict non-alignment of the countries spanning the Persian Gulf and South Asian regions , together with American willingness to concede the Soviet Union a role in a comprehensive Middle East settlement , might create a situation congenial to the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan . |
| 28 | It was reported on May 31 that a Taiwanese businessman was to purchase the Goddess of Democracy and use it as " a classroom on democracy " . |
| 29 | It emerged on July 21 that a Pakistani video film , International Guerrillas , portraying the British novelist Salman Rushdie torturing and killing Moslems and finally being struck dead by lightning , had been refused distribution rights by the British Board of Film Classification . |
| 30 | It was revealed on Aug. 5 that the special prosecutor in the Iran-contra affair , Lawrence E. Walsh , had informed Ronald Reagan that his office considered the former President " simply as a witness " in the investigation and not a candidate for indictment . |