Example sentences of "that [noun prp] [verb] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm finding myself somewhat confused , I mean , I was interested that Ian had mentioned the practical voluntary services as one of the groups that he would wish to work with . |
| 2 | The summary goes on to say that Stirling had asked the Eighth Army for thirty more jeeps that had already been ordered . |
| 3 | There is general agreement that Taylor has oversimplified the traditional relationship which once existed between working-class supporters and their clubs . |
| 4 | Passing sentence Judge John Petrie said he took into account the fact that Spence had spared the young people the ordeal of giving evidence in court by his guilty plea . |
| 5 | For a time it seemed that Christie 's had the inside track — they offered the Sharp apartment for sale in the late autumn of 1992 . |
| 6 | Reporting the Lithuanian response , the official Soviet news agency Tass on March 19 announced that Gorbachev had ordered the Soviet government to implement " a number of immediate measures " in the light of information which " bears witness to the fact that the present leadership of the republic has embarked on a path of crude violations of constitutional order and of arbitrarily deciding matters which affect the interest of the USSR " . |
| 7 | For it was there that Beethoven had enhanced the German grandeur of his music with the words of Schiller 's Ode to Joy and thus took the first step towards reintegrating poetry and music as equal partners in a new and sublime unity . |
| 8 | It was thanks to the man upstairs that Frankie had acquired the enormous army greatcoat with its fancy epaulettes and polished brass buttons . |
| 9 | This prompt removal suggests that he was identified with the Woodvilles , although More is alone in the story that Rotherham had delivered the great seal to the queen when she went into sanctuary . |
| 10 | This prompt removal suggests that he was identified with the Woodvilles , although More is alone in the story that Rotherham had delivered the great seal to the queen when she went into sanctuary . |
| 11 | No one should get the impression from this that Rotherham had taken the gay community to its bosom . |
| 12 | These rules stated that the economic world was Keynesian — equally in the sense that Keynes had explained the fundamental laws of economic motion and that in the process he had provided the prescriptions which would render high unemployment and stagnation as things of the past [ Posner , 1978 ] . |
| 13 | Speaking at a rally in Budapest , the Hungarian Prime Minister , Jozsef Antall said that he condemned the treaty " historically speaking " , but noted that Hungary had signed the 1975 Helsinki Final Act renouncing the violent changing of frontiers . |
| 14 | One was large and rectangular ; Melissa guessed that it was here that Angy had kept the wooden block of kitchen knives that Lou had mentioned . |
| 15 | It was by appealing to such sentiments that Goldwater had defeated the liberal Nelson Rockefeller in the crucial Republican primary in California in 1964 . |
| 16 | Even recently a white South African registered surprise on hearing that Nelson Mandela could speak , 40 years on , with fresh enthusiasm of a Neil Harvey innings , 151 at Kingsmead , Durban in 1951 , that Mandela had seen the young Harvey score . |
| 17 | Their friends could only feel that death was merciful in the circumstances , especially with war imminent , and that Molly had made the closing months of their lives very happy . |
| 18 | By the end of the season it was apparent that Arsenal had signed the nearest thing in football to David Berry and The Cruisers . |
| 19 | Iraq eventually announced on Aug. 28 that Kuwait had become the 19th Iraqi governorate ( liwa ) . |
| 20 | It was immediately obvious that Wheeler had chosen the earliest possible date to fit his hypothesis . |
| 21 | It was the first time since 1921 that England had lost the first three Tests of a home rubber . |
| 22 | It is essential for our own peace and security that Russia continues to play the positive role on which President Gorbachev embarked and which President Yeltsin is set to continue and to develop . |
| 23 | There have to be , there are particular reasons why er after revolutionary upheavals you very often get authoritarian forms of government and I would say in Russia and i i in a sense it 's linked with Harold 's question as well about erm the Chinese following a Stalinist model of economic reconstruction think what you 've actually got in Russia is not this sort of mass hankering after authoritarianism but you 've got a situation where the bureaucracy that controls a completely devastated , backward economy , which is what they 've actually got in the early nineteen twenties , where the working class democracy has just disappeared really with , with the , with the economic collapse , with the factories shutting down , with all of the old communist party militants going into the Red Army or getting sucked into the state bureaucracy with that sort of complete collapse really , economically and socially and politically , you 've got a situation where the central priority of the leadership is to build up Russian industry as quickly as possible so that Russia has got the armed forces it needs |
| 24 | She felt a sudden uncomfortable twist in her stomach , and she could sense that Jake had felt the same . |
| 25 | It was in this way that Galle came to make the first sighting of the planet now known as Neptune . |
| 26 | On Feb. 24 Monsengwo Pasinya , president of the national conference , indicated that Nguza had abandoned the round table idea but was still expected to demand a reduction in the number of delegates to the conference . |
| 27 | The Legend also proclaimed that Constantine had recognized the unique spiritual status of the Roman see , confirming the primacy of Rome and of the see of St Peter over the four patriarchates of Antioch , Constantinople , Alexandria and Jerusalem . |
| 28 | Although I am not clear in my own mind what " literary " means in the title The Literary Language of Shakespeare ( for it seems to suggest that non-literary language is not included ) it is apparent that Hussey aims to stress the literary rather than the language in his account of Shakespeare . |
| 29 | Diplomatic sources revealed that Croatia had rejected the amended version . |
| 30 | But , I mean Rover have done the same I know for a fact that Rover have done the same to some of their blokes , |