Example sentences of "that it was [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company said last October that it was expecting 20,000 subscribers by year-end , but at the start of March it had signed just 8,500 to the service . |
| 2 | On Sept. 12 the Revolutionary Justice Organization ( RJO ) in Beirut made its first formal announcement that it was holding British hostage Jackie Mann , kidnapped in Beirut in May 1989 [ see p. 36671 ] , while Islamic Jihad issued a statement welcoming the releases and accompanied by a photograph of United States hostage , Terry Anderson . |
| 3 | The Foreign Ministry announced on Sept. 18 that it was downgrading diplomatic relations with Israel , which was refusing to appoint an ambassador while Waldheim remained President . |
| 4 | Er , in his er , comment just now he er , referred to the enor , the enormous er , amount that it was costing this council to er , fund the special protection service . |
| 5 | Even if it is n't , I ca n't see that it was pushed any distance … |
| 6 | We would n't still be doing it if we did n't feel that it was creating enough profit in the meantime , and looked like it could create more as it went along . ’ |
| 7 | International outrage at deteriorating conditions in Turkish refugee camps in the mountainous border region around Isikveren led the government to announce on April 14 that it was moving 200,000 refugees to prepared sites near Silopi , about 50 km inside Turkey . |
| 8 | The company confirmed last week that it was providing 10 nurses and two doctors at the Wolds and that the staffing arrangements could be increased or reduced according to demand . |
| 9 | The company explains its performance by saying that 1989 was the first year that the US contributed the majority of its sales , 61% of the total , and that it was hit that year by a 35% fall in the UK because it was too reliant on one customer ; it raised £1.5m in a rights issue . |
| 10 | Aer Lingus , the Irish Republic 's national airline , confirmed that it was facing two charges in the United States that a subsidiary company illegally supplied aircraft parts to Iran . |
| 11 | The European Commission announced on July 31 that it was dropping legal action against the United Kingdom in five out of seven cases where UK plans had been deemed to infringe EC environmental assessment directives . |
| 12 | The fragment sheds some illumination on what it was like to be a feminist 50 years ago , though we would point out that it was written 20 years after the event with all the problems of interpretation that implies . |
| 13 | On May 15 , 1990 , the Vatican announced that it was re-establishing diplomatic relations with Romania , broken in 1950 . |
| 14 | Local journalist Mike Stairs has been following the story closely , but says it was n't until the mid-'80s that it was given national attention . |
| 15 | For its part the UN Security Council agreed to send a high-level mission to Baghdad to demand immediate , total access to facilities , and stated that it was considering issuing Iraq with an ultimatum to produce objects spirited out of the military base where the shots were fired , east of Al Falluja . |
| 16 | As part of the fund-raising effort , the Scottish Bridge Union ran a National Spring Swiss Teams and this was such a success that it was repeated this year . |
| 17 | A year later , the Government restored the 5 per cent abatement in that year 's uprating of benefits , conceding that it was experiencing considerable difficulties in making invalidity benefit liable to taxation by the following year . |
| 18 | Sierra Leone announced that it was sending 2,000 men to the border area after rebels from Liberia killed 25 people during raids . |
| 19 | Asik Celebi says no more about Molla Fenari 's fate , but it may well be that it was alter this experience that Molla Fenari went to Karaman . |
| 20 | The United Kingdom announced at the same time that it was freeing Iraqi assets worth £70,000,000 ( about US$126,000,000 ) , but a UK Foreign Office spokesman denied allegations that Richer 's release had been secured by an unpublicised arrangement between Iraq and the UK , said to involve the unfreezing of part of £621,400,000 ( US$1,100 million ) held by banks in the UK . |
| 21 | Following the Commission 's order of June 28 , 1990 , that the £42,900,000 in " sweeteners " paid to British Aerospace at the time of its purchase of the Rover motor group should be repaid , the UK government announced that it was suing British Aerospace for the return of the money , and Rover for another £1,500,000 [ see pp. 37582-83 ] . |
| 22 | Mr Livingstone argued that the move towards unity was merely the normal pre-election loyalty which the party usually showed ; the only difference this time was that it was happening 18 months earlier than normal . |
| 23 | It was only in the more enlightened judgments that it was held that resistance was unnecessary where the complainant was overcome by fear . |
| 24 | On May 30 the Aid to Bangladesh Consortium ( a grouping of countries and multilateral agencies under the auspices of the World Bank ) announced that it was increasing longer-term assistance to Bangladesh by allocating US$2,300 million for the 12 months running to June 1992 . |
| 25 | Mozart wrote to Constanze that it was attracting full houses , and several numbers — ‘ Mann und Weib ’ , Papageno 's glockenspiel in the Act One finale , and the trio of the three boys from Act II ( ‘ Sied uns zum zweiten Mal willkommen ’ ) had to be repeated . |
| 26 | The United Kingdom government announced on Nov. 28 that it was restoring diplomatic relations with Syria with immediate effect . |
| 27 | The commission , supposedly independent but appointed by the military government , said that it was investigating various claims of irregularities made against the candidates . |
| 28 | In the middle of all this , the Burton Group 's announcement that it was cutting 2,000 jobs came as rather a rude shock . |
| 29 | A government spokesman said that Mr Adamec 's decision to quit was taken because of ‘ unacceptable demands ’ from Civic Forum , which earlier rejected the charge that it was putting undue pressure on the Prime Minister . |
| 30 | The leadership of the Radical Civic Union ( UCR ) , the main opposition party , announced on Sept. 24 that it was ending all co-operation with the government . |