Example sentences of "that [noun] was [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It suddenly seemed terrible that Marcus was leaving the flat . |
| 2 | The odd balance of power within the city was almost destroyed entirely when on 12 November 1933 Adolf Hitler announced that Germany was leaving the League of Nations . |
| 3 | Still , nobody mentioned that Levi was dominating the USPGA Tour , or that he was the best player in America at the time . |
| 4 | It was reported on Nov. 30 , 1989 , that the then Hungarian Trade Minister , Tamas Beck had revealed that Hungary was pressing the US to relax COCOM controls so that it could upgrade its telecommunications industry . |
| 5 | Officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) were reported on Dec. 28 to have said that Kuwait was delaying the return of up to 4,000 Bedoun ( inhabitants of Kuwait without Iraqi citizenship ) from Iraq . |
| 6 | The teacher knew that Sherman was combining the presentation of the collar and Koko 's picture to communicate something rather specific but was uncertain as to what . |
| 7 | Kravchuk announced at a press conference on March 12 that Ukraine was suspending the transfer of tactical nuclear weapons to Russia for their destruction , because of doubt over the safety of the weapons . |
| 8 | In 1911–12 Major Morrison-Bell MP constructed a model to demonstrate these disparities of distribution and had toured the country with it for propaganda purposes ; the obvious over-representation of Ireland was especially useful to a Unionist party that wished to claim that Redmond was holding the Empire to ransom . |
| 9 | Now , as the party fodder turned up in their glittering clothes , I began to see that Eva was using the evening not as a celebration but as her launch into London . |
| 10 | ‘ It seems that Matthew was running the thing on too big a scale for the size of the town — too much stock of the wrong sort and overheads too high . ’ |
| 11 | ( The Canadian , Mexican and US governments had announced on Feb. 5 that Canada was to join the negotiations on a free trade zone . ) |
| 12 | Banharn Silpa-Archa , Minister of the Interior , issued a statement on June 27 claiming that Chaovalit was to join the Chart Thai Party ( the main component of the ruling coalition ) led by Prime Minister Chatichai . |
| 13 | Alexei saw that Burun was contemplating the piece of floor between his feet . |
| 14 | Observers believed that Alia was taking the opportunity of the embassy sit-ins to strengthen the hand of the reformers in the party and government . |
| 15 | Noel was present and presenting the Welsh independence in and also Gethyn was present erm I 'd like to see , er , know that Gethyn was representing the Church in Wales apart from the fact that he 's also a baptist . |
| 16 | Although I found it impossible to imagine such a conversation with Mrs Monro , I had no doubt that Lili was telling the truth , and whatever the psychological convolutions the facts were there . |
| 17 | ‘ Later , perhaps , ’ said Tom , thinking that Willie was eyeing the buns . |
| 18 | Byelarus introduced its own internal currency , the rubel , on May 25 , six days ahead of schedule ; the chair of the National Bank , Stanislav Bogdankevich , denied that Byelarus was leaving the rouble zone . |
| 19 | They point to the triumphant end of the Psalm and suggest that Jesus was reciting the Psalm but died before he could finish it . |
| 20 | Mellowed by two bottles of beer , he was convinced that Hank was telling the truth ; his mind was already going to work considering how to double that forty thousand . |
| 21 | They were far more likely to be concealed in one of the buildings round about and it was here that Owen was concentrating the search . |
| 22 | The other , more brutal , explanation was that God was punishing the parents . |
| 23 | Yeah , wait until Nicky hears about this ! ’ he added excitedly , belatedly absorbing the fact that Nicky was to share the adventure and then regarding Maria suspiciously . |
| 24 | Well I do n't know , ha ha have n't you got a position where er as , as we began to , to see last week , there is this radicalization coming in but the , the er i i it 's the peasants who 've moved to the left of the Party , you 're right , that they are inappropriate to this very moderate policy of rent reduction erm a tax on collaborators land is being redistributed and is n't saying right we , i i in the same way that , that Mao was identifying the problem in in , either you , you follow the masses or you , you lead them but , but thereof we are behind them and a sense the Party has got ta recognize that , it 's got ta catch up with the masses and is n't that first paragraph saying look this is the way you should be going , that there are peasants who are redistributing the land and land reform is in effect taking place and that 's what we want to see ? |
| 25 | The local press later reported that Johnson was seeking the defence portfolio as well as several other ministerial posts for INPFL members . |
| 26 | I went to sit by her , I do n't know why , because seeing that baby was twisting the knife tighter , but I did , and she put her arm around me while I told her . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Those were painted by my grandmother , ’ said Ianthe , seeing that Sophia was examining the watercolours of Italian scenes which hung in the hall . |
| 28 | Iraqi media reports prior to the meeting were uncompromising and blunt ; the daily al-Jumhuriya reported on July 30 that Iraq was attending the Jeddah talks to " retain its rights and not to hear new talks about " fraternity and solidarity " which yield nothing " . |
| 29 | She represents the ordinary Japanese who believed what was reported : first , that Manchuria was an idealistic experiment in Asian co-operation ; and , later , that Japan was winning the Pacific war . |
| 30 | It is true that Europe was taking the bulk of British exports in part because of the fall-off in sales to the United States , which was entering a period of recession , but the importance of her sales within Europe was self-evident . |