Example sentences of "that [noun prp] [vb past] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus it was argued that William had a legitimate title to the throne because he won it by right of conquest in a just war . |
| 2 | Ian Glick QC , for Walker Greenbank , told the court that WG acquired a private shelving company , Alkar , in January 1987 , agreeing to pay its owners , Alan and William Carr , an initial amount of £2.2m in WG shares followed by a series of payments which would be linked to Alkar 's profit performance . |
| 3 | A witness , Andrew Swanick , told Bristol Crown Court that Kelly took an arrow-shaped knuckle duster knife to work the day before the incident happened . |
| 4 | It was no wonder that Hercules seemed an apt role-model . |
| 5 | There are persistent claims that Churchill sent a small group of secret agents to France outside SOE operations but , because no documentation exists , these claims are ridiculed by self-professed experts . |
| 6 | Davies points out that Gorbachev took a conservative attitude to Soviet history for the first 18 months of his time in power . |
| 7 | They received the news silently , unwilling to concede that Woolley had a good reason for doing anything . |
| 8 | John Hargreaves , prosecuting , said that Bulmer had a long list of previous convictions . |
| 9 | Figures released by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) showed that Afghanistan recorded a visible trade deficit of US$220,600,000 in 1989 and a deficit of US$217,100,000 on the current account of its balance of payments . |
| 10 | At Virgin , over and above establishing more centralised management functions ‘ my role was to ensure we were informal but not casual , to the extent that Richard had a limited number of objectives we were committed to spending money on , based on a view of ; the company and the things we had to do well ’ , he said . |
| 11 | This night , while it was not one of their magical occasions , neither had any real complaints but in their natural preoccupation they both forgot that Bobby had a dislocated knee ! |
| 12 | We know that Brahms kept a keen eye open for new music , and that he knew Rheinberger — what I wonder is whether it was the Rheinberger Sonata that suggested to Brahms the form for the last movement of his Symphony ? |
| 13 | This recognises that Pakistan played a significant role in the conflict through its assistance to Afghanistan resistance forces and in receiving Afghan refugees . |
| 14 | Historians have suggested that Byzantium followed a different path from Western Europe with economic decline starting in the eleventh century . |
| 15 | In 1968 , Benn 's desire to sell Romania sophisticated jet-engines was frustrated ‘ despite the fact that Ceauşescu made a courageous speech attacking the invasion of Czechoslovakia . ’ |
| 16 | It was at that meeting that Dista proposed a new wording for the Data sheet — the standard form of recommendation to doctors on how a drug should be administered . |
| 17 | Emily was astute enough to recognize that Hari had a singular talent , a fine touch for design that eluded most men . |
| 18 | She shivered in her armchair through cold and impatience , thinking that Swod relished a captive audience but that she hated forming it . |
| 19 | I 'm sure someone will tell us that Wetherall had a great game ( he must have — look at the result ! ) but surely Roecastle would have been a better bet ( or even Hodge ? ) . |
| 20 | The editorial goes on to say that Harrods had a perfect right to remove from its windows a product which alienated the customers , just as the V&A had not really committed an act of censorship . |
| 21 | Chief Judge Patricia Wald , an appointee of President Jimmy Carter , dissenting , issued a statement after the appeal verdict stating that she was " satisfied that North received a fair trial " . |
| 22 | NME understands that Nirvana commissioned an official biography from a London-based journalist last week . |
| 23 | So much so that Lenin commissioned a leading party organizer and Georgian , Josef Stalin , to write a counter-attack ( published in 1913 ) . |
| 24 | Whatever charges are levelled against the Waffen-SS , no one can say that Landau chose a soft option . |
| 25 | The situation seemed so threatening that Tottenham formed a 10-man wall but Wilson shot wide when Slawson tapped the free kick to him . |
| 26 | Interestingly , what gave Hastings more personal satisfaction than the haul of points which took his international tally to 415 in 44 appearances was the fact that Scotland kept a clean sheet against the Welsh . |
| 27 | The clearance of the staging at the end of the bridge took only a short time , and it was not until they were moving once more that Alexei had a sudden thought . |
| 28 | He remarked : ‘ It is a generally received opinion that Turner adopted a peculiar manner , that he exaggerated it more and more , and that his last works are the result of a deranged intellect . ’ |
| 29 | If Bede is to be believed , Oswine proved an attractive ruler who gained the admiration of Aidan , which suggests that Oswiu faced a dangerous rival in this Deiran king whom he eventually out-manoeuvred and slew by treachery the ninth year of the latter 's reign ( HE 111 , 14 ) . |
| 30 | In order to draw this out of him , he wrote a vastly elaborate commentary on the Lay , softening the blow of his harsher criticisms by inventing the personae of a whole group of scholarly editors who are debating the text in the way that scholars have disputed over Homer or Beowulf It would seem that Tolkien took a great deal of notice of Lewis 's invented editors , for he rewrote his Kay and incorporated a high proportion of their emendations . |