Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found it a bit odd that a sensible girl should write about them in that — that romantic way . ’ |
| 2 | Charles Nupen , a strike mediator , announced on Jan. 26 that a settlement between the two sides had been reached whereby SATS agreed to recognize SARHWU and to negotiate wages and conditions of service with the union in areas where it obtained registrations under the Labour Relations Act . |
| 3 | The State Council spokesman , Yuan Mu , said on Jan. 10 that a policy of " leniency " was being adopted in the trials , which were closed to foreign observers . |
| 4 | The occurrence of wet and dry days is thus not random — there is a persistence effect such that a wet day is more likely to be followed by another wet day than by a dry day , and vice-versa . |
| 5 | The price has doubled since Iraq invaded Kuwait and now it 's going up fast though with traders convinced that a war in the Gulf is inevitable . |
| 6 | Training officers who noted that they were able to spend their full time on training were very rare , although it was noted in Chapter 4 that a training officer or more ‘ training officer time ’ was the most commonly wanted further ‘ resource ’ to expand or develop existing training programmes . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , it is uncertain whether he was writing during Emma 's marriage to Cnut or that to Æthelred , but these tales hint that one or both suggested to Richard II that a claim to England was worth recording , and that he wanted to keep his options open . |
| 8 | Claims by FORD members at a press conference on Jan. 11 that a military coup was being prepared to stifle the democracy movement were dismissed by the government as " malicious rumours " . |
| 9 | German officials reported on Jan. 29 that a German freighter , the Godewind , bound from Szczecin in Poland for Syria , had been found to be carrying 16 Czechoslovak-made T-72 tanks for the Syrian armed forces , apparently in contravention of the Czechoslovak government 's promise to end such transactions . |
| 10 | This is an association of interested parties , individuals and organisations , who have joined forces to provide fund-raising facilities , logistic support and whatever other assistance is found to be necessary to give effect to the hopes of all the parties concerned that a self-sufficient village for the care of physically and mentally handicapped people should come into being in Atea . |
| 11 | The Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda reported on Jan. 14 that a former Soviet diplomat had recently been sentenced to death for passing Soviet defence secrets to the United States . |
| 12 | Komsomolskaya Pravda reported on Jan. 24 that a Russian military delegation would visit Vietnam before mid-1992 to negotiate the withdrawal of all military personnel from the Cam Ranh naval base . |
| 13 | It was on March 7 that a helicopter carrying Tanay , accompanied by his family and a number of Afghan generals , landed near the Pakistan border town of Peshawar . |
| 14 | President Havel proposed in March 1991 that a referendum should be held to settle the issue of Slovak secession . |
| 15 | It was reported on Aug. 22 that a German national , Egbert Partesius and an Afghan , Abdul Aziz Ahmad , were arrested in Phoenix , Arizona ( USA ) , on charges of trying to sell a VAX 8820 computer with military applications to the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | It was announced in Bucharest on Sept. 30 that a US$300,000,000 World Bank loan to Romania had been postponed because of the miners ' riots . |
| 17 | Inquiries were set up in both cases , while Haughey announced on Sept. 22 that a serious fraud agency was to be established . |
| 18 | In April 22 traders were charged with illegal trading , and the Justice Department announced on Aug. 2 that a total of 46 traders had been indicted for futures fraud . |
| 19 | It is no secret that the governor of Brixton prison knew on 4 February 1991 that a breakout from the prison was being actively contemplated by IRA terrorists in the prison , yet they were not split up or moved . |
| 20 | It was reported on July 10 that a supradepartmental committee to oversee the use and conservation of land in Kazakhstan had been established . |
| 21 | In an effort to resolve the dispute it was agreed on May 26 that a subcommittee would consider the point at which the Irish government would take part in the talks . |
| 22 | It had been reported on July 7 that a UN team had overseen the destruction of 61 Iraqi missiles and 10 mobile launchers . |
| 23 | Negotiations between employers and the trade union IG Medien for the introduction of a 35-hour week in the printing industry , coupled with salary increases of 10.5 per cent , ended without success in early May and wildcat strikes were staged , but an arbitration commission recommended on May 7 that a 35-hour week should be introduced in one stage as from April 1 , 1995 , coupled with a salary increase of 6.8 per cent for 1990 . |
| 24 | The official Xinhua news agency reported on May 7 that a " huge gas and coal dust explosion " at a coal mine in the northern province of Shanxi on April 21 had killed all 147 miners working there . |
| 25 | It was reported on May 7 that a meeting in Paris of the Aid to Pakistan Consortium , made up of 14 Western countries and the World Bank , had approved aid totalling US$2,300 million . |
| 26 | It was reported on May 31 that a Taiwanese businessman was to purchase the Goddess of Democracy and use it as " a classroom on democracy " . |
| 27 | The court later granted a certificate under section 1(2) of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 that a point of law of general public importance was involved in the decision , namely |
| 28 | It emerged on July 21 that a Pakistani video film , International Guerrillas , portraying the British novelist Salman Rushdie torturing and killing Moslems and finally being struck dead by lightning , had been refused distribution rights by the British Board of Film Classification . |
| 29 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that it was implicit in the Housing Act 1957 that a local authority must serve a demand for expenses before bringing an action to recover them under section 10(3) ; but that the requirement to serve such a demand before taking action was a mere procedural step which was not part of the cause of action and that , save as expressly provided by section 10(4) for summary proceedings , the period of limitation began to run from the completion of the works ; and that , accordingly , the action was statute-barred ( post , pp. 126F–G , 129E — 130B ) . |
| 30 | Nabi Berri , leader of the Shia organization Amal and currently a Cabinet member , said on Aug. 18 that a postponement was undesirable and that " those who call for a postponement are also targeting the Taif accord " . |