Example sentences of "[vb past] that it [vb mod] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alf Morris , the Labour Party 's spokesman for the disabled , promised that it would increase pensions above the rate of inflation . |
| 2 | Moreover , on July 28 Turkey announced that it would refuse permission for the use of Turkish bases to launch allied attacks against Iraq . |
| 3 | On Feb. 11 and 25 , Kuwait announced that it would allocate £660,000,000 ( $1,320 million ) towards UK war costs and F5,000 million ( $1,000 million ) towards French costs . |
| 4 | One high street retailer , Comet , announced that it would offer refunds to people who bought its own-brand and other manufacturers ' models which failed the Government tests announced on Monday . |
| 5 | On Jan. 26 Saudi Arabia announced that it would commit $13,500 million to US costs for the first three months of the war . |
| 6 | In a letter received by the Agence France-Presse news agency in Bonn on April 13 the extremist Red Army Faction ( RAF ) announced that it would cease attacks on leading economic and government figures in return for the release of some of the longest-serving RAF prisoners . |
| 7 | Argentina announced that it would resume relations with Pretoria before the end of the year . |
| 8 | On Sept. 14 Japan announced that it would provide $2,000 million to the frontline states , $600 million of which would be sent immediately . |
| 9 | At the same time the company announced that it would spend £225,000 on installing a special air filter in the factory . |
| 10 | The next day , Pakistan announced that it would reciprocate India 's gesture . |
| 11 | In March 1977 the US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) announced that it would target asbestos as one of the 15 substances to receive priority attention under the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 . |
| 12 | In 1988 the Japanese giant bought CBS records for $2bn and last week it announced that it would take control of Columbia pictures . |
| 13 | In January Fujitsu announced that it will spend ¥100 billion ( $770m ) next year getting its plant in Miyazaki prefecture ready for making 64-megabit chips . |
| 14 | The company claims to have reached an agreement in principle either to lengthen the terms of its loans , or swap for debt for equity , and until detailed plans are presented on April 6 , the firm announced that it will suspend capital repayments on its loans . |
| 15 | He did not believe in the new property tax ; he believed that it would constitute theft from the old ladies living down the road , who would consequently vote against the Tories . |
| 16 | On the basis of Fields 's figures , if certain guidelines were adhered to rigorously , Branson estimated that it would cost Virgin £20m a year to run the airline , but the most they stood to lose by ‘ cutting and running ’ at any time was £2m . |
| 17 | The Bank stated that it will have proposals to put to the IBOA in relation to pension arrangements for Bank Assistants in the near future . |
| 18 | In the emotionally charged atmosphere in which the hearings on the Freedom of Choice Bill began , its opponents ( most of whom were Republicans ) claimed that it would extend abortion rights beyond those already established by Roe v. Wade . |
| 19 | Manley claimed that it would provide training , marketing and financial advice to help " ambitious and disciplined young people " , but the benefits were expected to reach only a minority of the young unemployed . |
| 20 | Commentators claimed that it would help Sevan in his efforts to persuade hardline mujaheddin groups , in particular Gulbuddin Hekmatyar 's Hezb-i-Islami , to attend an " Afghan gathering " in Europe in April as a first step towards the establishment of an interim government . |
| 21 | Tiny varying voltages were applied to the plates and the platypus 's reactions showed that it could detect field strengths as low as a 500 millionth of a volt ( 0.05 microvolts ) per centimetre . |
| 22 | On a visit to Hungary in November 1989 a delegation led by the Assembly 's president , Anders Bjorck , indicated that it would support applications from East European countries provided that they ( i ) adopted a democratic constitution ; ( ii ) held free , multiparty elections ; and ( iii ) reformed the penal code to conform with various European conventions . |
| 23 | ‘ We talked to Elizabeth , to Monty 's doctor and to Monty , and we all decided that it would kill Monty if we took him off the picture . |
| 24 | The plan was criticized by industrialists , who warned that it could reduce Europe 's competitiveness in international markets , and by the governments of a number of oil-producing countries , including Saudi Arabia and Iran . |
| 25 | The plan was criticized by industrialists , who warned that it could reduce Europe 's competitiveness in international markets , and by oil producing countries including Saudi Arabia and Iran . |
| 26 | ‘ It is pretty clear they have got the message from institutional shareholders , ’ but he warned that it could take years for Barclays to recover from the bad lending made in the late 1980s . |
| 27 | The visit , formally approved by the Japanese Cabinet on Aug. 25 , was fiercely opposed by right-wing nationalists who feared that it would involve pressure upon the Emperor to apologise to the Chinese people for Japan 's brutal military intervention in the country between 1931 and 1945 . |
| 28 | By the mid 1880s the Japanese government felt that it could reopen negotiations concerning revision of the unequal treaties . |
| 29 | I felt I could pretend that you were , it was a secret I had , I almost told you once or twice , but I thought that it might spoil things , that … |
| 30 | Oliver wondered why the old man lived in such an old , dirty place , when he had so many watches , but then he thought that it must cost Fagin a lot of money to look after the Dodger and the other boys . |