Example sentences of "that it [vb past] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | However , the government demanded a five-year grace period before paying into the UN-supervised compensation fund for Kuwaiti victims of Iraq 's occupation and the ensuing war , on the grounds that it had to meet domestic needs first , including the US$194,000 million cost of reconstruction . |
2 | Without the original bill we can not be certain of the government 's objectives ; but on balance it seems unlikely that it wished to replace statutory legislation by proclamation . |
3 | The following weekend , the French referendum on Sept. 20 on ratification of the Maastricht Treaty produced a majority in favour , but so narrow that it failed to dispel growing doubts about the integration process . |
4 | In a statement issued after the meeting the resolution was described as " totally unacceptable " on the grounds that it failed to condemn Palestinian violence and questioned Israel 's sovereignty over Jerusalem . |
5 | One of the key main objections to the Accord was that it failed to offer sufficient protection to Quebec 's English-speaking minority . |
6 | In short , revisionist economic historians have played down the significance of the reforms introduced after 1905 , and controverted the liberal belief that it promised to bring social stability to the countryside . |
7 | Propaganda actions , such as Christmas sales of excess butter , failed to stop the complaints about the policy : that it tended to help large farms , which could adopt intensive production methods , rather than the needy ; that it distorted world markets and upset the US , which threatened a trade war with the EC over CAP in 1986 — 7 ; and that it harmed the environment by encouraging the use of chemical fertilisers . |
8 | Mwinyi launched the country 's second five-year plan in Parliament on April 18 , 1989 , saying that it aimed to raise real growth in gross domestic product ( GDP ) on the mainland to 6 per cent a year by the end of the plan period in 1992/93 , compared with 3.9 per cent in 1987/88 . |
9 | The bronze hair round the triangular face was cut in a short bob so that it curled to razor sharp points like horns on either side of her ears . |
10 | Her bronze hair , with no trace of grey , was cut in a short bob so that it curled to razor sharp points like horns on either side of her ears . |