Example sentences of "that it [was/were] [verb] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Oct. 19 , 1989 , the government confirmed that it was holding Gen. François Bozize and 11 other opposition figures who had fled to Benin after an abortive coup attempt in 1982 . |
| 2 | ‘ When I got home on the evening that it was announced Terry Venables had taken out an injunction , one of my children was very nervous and said ‘ Why do n't you throw in the towel ? |
| 3 | He showed me a speck on the map to the left of Hodges and said that it was named Banks Island , after Cook 's naturalist friend . |
| 4 | Mr Wingti said in Port Moresby that it was costing Papua New Guinea money to maintain the office of governor general as Queen Elizabeth 's representative in the country . |
| 5 | She made a deliberate detour past Miguel 's house on her way back to Monte Samana , and , without stopping , noted that it was called Casa Madrid . |
| 6 | The American Stock Exchange duly announced that it was delisting Wang Laboratories Inc 's Class B and C common stocks but trading in the company 's debentures will continue . |
| 7 | The court emphasised that it was upholding party autonomy and would not rewrite the contract to take account of subsequent concerns . |
| 8 | The rebel Movement for Democracy and Development ( MDD ) announced on Oct. 30 that it was repudiating reconciliation agreements which it had signed with the government in Libreville , Gabon , on June 24 [ see pp. 38952 ; 39132 ] . |
| 9 | This happened despite the government 's claims that it was injecting market discipline into the private sector by not ‘ bailing out lame ducks ’ . |
| 10 | It also announced that it was reducing customs duty on sales from such zones to the domestic market . |
| 11 | Richmond bureau was prompted into this action when it felt that it was losing advice workers because of the tensions involved in the work and because insufficient support was given to alleviate it . |