Example sentences of "that [art] [noun] had [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swinton believed that the UK had left the conference on good ground because US demands had been so unlimited . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , at a joint press conference with Solanki in Delhi on Jan. 17 , Hurd indicated that the UK had broached the subject of India 's adherence to the NPT ; Solanki claimed , however , that the NPT was " discriminatory " and could not , therefore , be accepted by India . |
| 3 | It transpired that the engine had fouled the points at Eaton . |
| 4 | By then , it was obvious that the Covenanters had won the day and many of the enemy , including Claverhouse , were in full flight from the field . |
| 5 | The fact of all homes in the street having inside WCs was in itself evidence that the planners had earmarked the property as being for professional occupants as opposed to the ‘ working-man ’ . |
| 6 | By that I meant that the Treasury had cleared the papers for Cabinet and that agreement on the policy went back several months . |
| 7 | Confusion about the real cause of the accident was compounded by press allegations that the crew had ignored the advice of air traffic controllers who had instructed the pilot to adopt an alternative flight path , avoiding the over-crowded suburb , to effect an emergency landing at Schiphol . |
| 8 | Juliette Drouet , the mistress of Victor Hugo and his companion on his travels , was put out that a woman other than herself should have been able to make this ‘ difficult ascent ’ and claimed that the Duchess had needed the services of thirty guides and helpers ; less jaundiced reporters speak only of two . |
| 9 | If no regeneration of mycelium was observed on the minimal medium without uridine , it was concluded that the nuclei had lost the ura + transforming gene during growth on non-selective medium . |
| 10 | I was up in Oregon at the time and got back to find that the tremor had shoved the sewage pipes up a few inches and thrown the water out of the lavatories , a well-known portent of Satan 's arrival , if you believe the infernal guidebooks . |
| 11 | Time would show that the campaign had misjudged the reactions of the British public . |
| 12 | Chantler , their economic adviser , told the new Minister frankly that the Conservatives had over-estimated the reality of controls , and most of his colleagues shared his view that any new system of control could scarcely be worse than the one they were attempting to use . |
| 13 | Peter Costain , chief executive , admitted that the company had followed the wrong strategy when it continued to buy into commercial property at the peak of the market . |
| 14 | During the course of the case , Greenpeace produced evidence claiming that the company had notified the NRA of its intention to discharge heavy metals into the Irish Sea from its Whitehaven plant in excess of its pollution consent limits , but that the Authority took no action to prevent it . |
| 15 | A company spokesman , Jerzy Pietraszek , was quoted as saying that the strike had caused the loss of 25,000 tonnes of electrolytic copper from the planned annual production of 320,000 tonnes . |
| 16 | A company spokesman , Jerzy Pietraszek , was quoted as saying that the strike had caused the loss of 25,000 tonnes of electrolytic copper from the planned annual production of 320,000 tonnes . |
| 17 | The unions claimed that the strike had received the support of 80 per cent of the population . |
| 18 | Rebecca had silk slippers on her feet , with the device that the King had granted the Everards embroidered on them : it had amused her , during the serene days between squalls on the voyage from Plymouth , to sit on deck and stitch the image of the seamonster harnessed by the naked man , halfway up to his waist in water , while natives in feather skirts cavorted on the shore behind . |
| 19 | The reaction of any neutral bystander could only be that the judge had become the adversary of the defence . |
| 20 | Lord Denning M.R. circumvented section 441(3) by finding that the judge had misconstrued the words in section 411 , had thereby made a jurisdictional error , and therefore , relying on Anisminic and Pearlman , the ‘ no appeal ’ clause was ineffective . |
| 21 | The report ended with the information that the judge had told the jury that it would be very dangerous to record a conviction without independent support for the girl 's story . |
| 22 | On the eve of the ceremony in the stone-built parish church at Crathie , on the edge of the Balmoral estate , it was realised that the registrar had got the groom 's name wrong . |
| 23 | The government claimed that the attackers had crossed the nearby border from South Africa . |
| 24 | If the justices had applied the wrong criteria as to what constituted a breach of the peace in the case of the mother-in-law , it is difficult to see how the court could have been so sure that the justices had applied the right criteria to the decision of the policeman . |
| 25 | The business meeting disclosed that the BDDA had survived the first year successfully , but that its formation had not been greeted with enthusiasm by the deaf and dumb of the United Kingdom . |
| 26 | In America the war was not much more decisive than its predecessor , but British successes in Europe and claims to compensation to make up for the fact that the Bourbons had secured the Spanish throne meant that Britain kept her gains instead of returning them as she had done in 1697 . |
| 27 | Now that the Abuna had absolved the inhabitants of the empire from their allegiance to Lij Yasu , Ras Tafari was the obvious choice for Emperor . |
| 28 | The organization condemned the increased troop deployment , declaring that the government had given the security forces a licence to kill ANC members under the guise of stopping alleged MK activity . |
| 29 | They suggested that no coup attempt had actually occurred , and implied that the government had made the claim of armed insurrection as a pretext for executing officers whose loyalty to the regime was in doubt . |
| 30 | This stated that the government had lost the confidence of the majority in parliament and urged it to resign . |