Example sentences of "[that] [noun prp] [noun] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The judge said that Union Discount had not proved that the purpose of an audit was other than to satisfy statutory requirements . |
| 2 | From her they had learned that Jerome Fanshawe had a bungalow at Eastover between Eastbourne and Seaford and that he and his wife and daughter had driven down there for a week 's holiday on May 17th . |
| 3 | He criticised the way the selection of referees for the knock-out stages of the World Cup had been made , conveniently ignoring the fact that René Hourquet had been selected , only to turn down the appointment . |
| 4 | Clavell says that King Rat had freed him to write about the Far East . |
| 5 | The fact that King Arthur had been Romano-British and engaged in a struggle against Saxon invaders made the whole thing even more nonsensical , but Schellenberg had long since ceased to be amused by the excesses of the Third Reich . |
| 6 | Details of the troop deployment were formulated by the Saudis and Dick Cheney , the US Defence Secretary , on Aug. 6 , and the next day Bush formally announced that King Fahd had requested that US ground forces and war-planes be dispatched to Saudi Arabia to deter Iraqi aggression ; US combat aircraft and troops started to land at Dharhan in eastern Saudi Arabia that day . |
| 7 | In Somerset a jury declared that only a corner of north-west Somerset ought to remain within Exmoor Forest : another Somerset jury made the startling statement that King John had afforested all England ! |
| 8 | Towards the end of May 1689 one Londoner said that " the Crowne and Kingdome was King James proper right " , and " that King James had promist to settle the Church as now by law Established " . |
| 9 | Taylor had earlier alleged that Sierra Leone had allowed Sawyer 's government to send some 6,000-8,000 men for military training at two camps there . |
| 10 | Bert ran then , faster than he had ever run before and , dragging the lifeless form on to the sand , he put into practice all that Arnold Spence had taught him , swiftly , efficiently and with complete self-confidence . |
| 11 | It was announced that William Joyce had been appointed Deputy Leader of the British Union of Fascists . |
| 12 | At the same time , it was not to be supposed that William Joyce had put himself entirely on the wrong side of the law . |
| 13 | It was announced on Nov. 7 that William Bennett had resigned as Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy . |
| 14 | Criticism arrangement and pointed out that William Hay had only been elected the first DUP mayor after being nominated for the fifth time . |
| 15 | Seymour Cray has been left holding the baby at his struggling Colorado Springs-based Cray Computer Corp : Neil Davenport has resigned as president and chief executive , saying that Cray Computer had reached the point where it has appropriate resources to complete the Cray-3 so he is free to seek other opportunities — but the company is still seeking its first firm customer for the supercomputer . |
| 16 | He observed that the economy had expanded steadily since 1981 , and repeated something that Kenneth Baker had said earlier in the week : that there was ‘ no precedent for eight years of sustained growth ’ . |
| 17 | It was announced on Nov. 17 that Kenneth Matiba had been elected by the FORD-Asili faction as its presidential candidate . |
| 18 | But it emerged that Kenneth Littlejohn had indeed been recruited into MI6 two years previously — and that Lady Onslow was indirectly responsible for this . |
| 19 | She felt very nervous , but she remembered that Roger Kenyon had implied that the Rossitters were nice people , and it buoyed her up . |
| 20 | Information from secret intelligence sources indicated that Brigadier Jazali had reorganised his action squads after last autumn 's abortive attacks and was planning some new initiative . |
| 21 | It was not seriously challenged until the late 1960s , when A. Wenner and others pointed out that von Frisch had not excluded the possibility that the returning , dancing bee brings back with it a smell that is specific to the locality where the food is . |
| 22 | Jackson told him that General MacArthur had spoken to Jackson before he left Tokyo and had urged him to do all he could to assist Hodge and to prevent any dangerous developments . |
| 23 | It did so despite the fact that Goulding J had found that an experienced salesman quickly acquired a good idea of the prices obtained by his employer 's competitors , but that such knowledge was usually only approximate and that in this field accurate information was valuable , because a difference of even one penny a pound might be important . |
| 24 | It was noted that SPLA forces had been weakened both by internal divisions [ see pp. 38426 ; 38666 ] and by the May 1991 change of government in Ethiopia , which had meant that they could no longer operate from bases there . |
| 25 | He and Blanche also knew that Jim Lancaster had lied to them about when he stumbled across his wife 's adultery . |
| 26 | He felt it was time to ask about the stains on the clothes that Jim Lancaster had taken to the dry cleaner 's . |
| 27 | Rauschning also began to realise that Gauleiter Forster had been using the economic reforms initiated by the Party in 1933 to line his own pocket . |
| 28 | In Unix , it has succeeded in creating the impression that it has far more of the management , security and support capabilities in place than any of its competitors , and while this may not be entirely valid , time and again in the computer industry , winning the perception is nine tenths of the battle : in the 1970s , it was universally acknowledged among the cognoscenti that Burroughs Corp had by far the best mainframe architecture and operating software , but that did nothing to prevent the vast majority of its users migrating to IBM over time . |
| 29 | AI has repeatedly expressed concern about the case to the Tunisian Government since October 1991 but the Tunisian authorities have continued to insist that Faisal Barakat had never been arrested and that he died in a road accident . |
| 30 | Michael Stuart-Moore , QC , prosecuting , told the Old Bailey in London that Alison Manwaring had probably been naked when she was strangled at her home in Aldersley Gardens , Barking , London . |