Example sentences of "that they [vb past] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council as highway authority lodged an objection to the registration of the road verges on the ground that they formed part of the highway . |
| 2 | Winchester 's complaints that they had had no opportunity to make any representation and that they lacked particulars of the allegations which were made against them , met with no response from Lautro . |
| 3 | Winchester complained that they had had no opportunity to make any representations , and that they lacked particulars of the allegations made against them , to which there was no direct response from Lautro . |
| 4 | ‘ We felt that they deserved sponsorship from the local community and as our business grows , we would like to share our success with an organisation whose aims we fully support . |
| 5 | The ANC said that the Commission 's revelations confirmed that the state had conducted a " vicious campaign of misinformation and propaganda " against the organization since its unbanning in February 1990 , and that they added weight to the widely held belief in the existence of a " third force " of agents provocateurs linked to the SADF which was engendering township violence . |
| 6 | On the rare occasions that they took place in the dining-room Fru Møller 's professional know-how and courtesy were apt to desert her . |
| 7 | This time , the crew were in such high spirits that they dropped Nickles over the heart of Berlin , spirits that were somewhat subdued when it was realised that they could not close the bomb bay doors after combing . |
| 8 | The facts that they restricted entry to the lounge to certain classes of passengers and gave their staff instructions as to what to do with lost property were insufficient to manifest the intention to exercise the requisite degree of control . |
| 9 | I 'd learned their names only to the extent that they owned horses in the horse car or had touched bases with Filmer , which came to only about half . |
| 10 | realize that they had cushions on the seats . |
| 11 | ‘ The French were fortunate in that they had vessels of the right kind available . ’ |
| 12 | Police said that they seized knives at the Coronation Street house . |
| 13 | Nor does Herodotus necessarily refer to the Jews when he mentions Syrians and Phoenicians of Palestine , who acknowledge that they learnt circumcision from the Egyptians ( 2.104 ) . |
| 14 | It is certain that they became participants within the traitor ranks of NTS … you know of that , Comrade Major ? |
| 15 | Last last time I was er resting was er about sixteen months ago and er I actually applied and got pretty far down the line er for a position within Woolworths only to find that er when they stated that they wanted people between the ages of twenty eight and thirty five they did actually mean that . |
| 16 | Demolition charges had also been carefully set on machinery in the fish meal and other factories ; these small charges of gun cotton being placed so that they destroyed equipment without the risk of causing needless casualties . |
| 17 | English observers felt England had improved and that they dominated periods of the game but were let down by defensive errors . |
| 18 | Where once they flew in such flocks that they threw shadows over the earth , they now survive in a few straggling colonies . |
| 19 | Local students were so excited that they threw stones at the painting . |
| 20 | Shamir would have preferred to have formed a broad coalition government with Labour , but this became impossible for him in view of statements made by Labour Ministers suggesting that they supported contacts with the PLO , and in view of pressure from hardline Likud members such as Ariel Sharon to form a right-wing government . |
| 21 | These student assessments were used as part of the formative evaluation of the course in that they provided information on the functioning of the course as , for example , in the presentation of the references . |
| 22 | Most Muslims and Croats in Bosnia believe the Yugoslav army , whose officer corps is now almost completely Serbian , is helping Serbs to capture territory in the republic in much the same way that they backed Serbs in the Croatian civil war . |
| 23 | Although often studying less controversial forces than the RUC , this panglossian portrayal has to be disbelieved , especially as the authors often indicated in an occasional footnote , or in a revealing preface or aside , that they faced problems in the field similar to our own ( for example , see van Maamen 1981 : 479 , 492 ; Westley 1970 , p. vii ) , even when the research was covert ( Holdaway 1982 , 1983 : 12 ) . |
| 24 | Key members accused the MPs of being so caught up in the technical arguments and the prospect of winning one concession from the Government after a barren frustrating decade that they lost sight of the big picture . |
| 25 | Board members talked about their growing awareness of the complexity of problems associated with their school and emphasised that they found stimulation in the challenge to their accepted values , through exploration of issues . |