Example sentences of "[vb past] that [noun] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The co-ordinating committee reported that students participating in the strikes had been receiving death threats . |
| 2 | The local council in Aldershot ruled that soldiers serving in the Gulf would not have to pay poll tax ; but Whitehall refused to follow America 's example of allowing the troops in the Gulf not to pay income tax . |
| 3 | A letter from lawyer Richard Regan last June confirmed that charges relating to the matter had been dropped and Mr Gregory absolved from any blame for the oil spill . |
| 4 | Police and motoring organisations warned that drivers heading for the capital are certain to face lengthy delays as thousands of extra people take to the roads . |
| 5 | The resulting redrawing of constituency boundaries meant that French-speakers living in the suburbs of Brussels would become part of the Flemish province of Brabant surrounding Brussels and would thus lose the right to vote French speakers into the regional parliaments . |
| 6 | Mr Bell said that contract printing in the UK had been ‘ an absolute disaster ’ . |
| 7 | The London Weather Centre said that people travelling for the holiday weekend will face more rain tomorrow and Sunday . |
| 8 | Fleming concluded that information relating to the elderly worker did not readily reach the attention of management ( Fleming 1963 ) . |
| 9 | He suggested that cattle grazing in the ideal landscape should be any other colour than black and white , ‘ which make together the most inharmonious of all mixtures ’ . |