Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent survey by Sheffield university showed that 95 per cent . |
| 2 | On Feb. 5 Public Welfare Minister Supardjo Rustam announced that famine in Kuriwa , a district of the remote province of Irian Jaya , had claimed the lives of 132 people , after bad weather had prevented crop-planting in the area . |
| 3 | Reasoning about diseases of the heart and blood vessels began to have a sound basis when , in the seventeenth century , William Harvey established that blood circulates from the heart , through arteries to the minute capillary vessels in every organ , and back by the veins to the heart . |
| 4 | Thus in the 1920s Walter Elliot argued that Conservatism was based on -an observation of life and not a priori reasoning' , while more recently Sir Ian Gilmour declared that Conservatism is ‘ not an ideology or a doctrine ’ . |
| 5 | De La Rue announced that first half profit before tax rose by 48% to £46m ; the figure was helped by a contribution from the Swedish Inter Innovation which De La Rue bought a year ago . |
| 6 | Ian Wright extended that lead on eighty one minutes , but Derby did get back into things with an effort from Gary Micklewhite . |
| 7 | Ian Penman did that time and again . |
| 8 | It is believed the motive for the killing was robbery as the £170 that Miss Trenholme earned that day has never been traced . |
| 9 | The Press Box must have been like a morgue when David McCallan scored that goal against them in the Irish Cup quarter final . |
| 10 | In addition , the new regulations continued the pre-war advantages for university-provided liberal adult education which further weakened the relative position of the WEA so much so that the Ashby Committee reported that university income for adult education had exceeded £550,000 in 1951–52 in contrast to the WEA 's income of little more than £130,000 for that year . |
| 11 | David Chester chose that moment to demonstrate his lung capacity , and the confidences were abruptly ended . |
| 12 | An opinion made popular by a Dr David Macbride held that scurvy was due to an inadequate supply of fixed air in the human body , and that it might be cured by a dose of that gas . |
| 13 | Furthermore , Miss Massiter explained that information gathered by MI5 was shared with other government departments for political purposes and gave examples of how trade-union leaders had their telephones tapped by MI5 during wage negotiations with government departments . |
| 14 | The space under the the ‘ ninety ’ when David Plain remade that for the stickers that went out he took it out , he took half of it out , and that really infuriated me . |
| 15 | On 9 February 1990 Navan Resources announced that its . |
| 16 | Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress . |
| 17 | That change took place last week when Paramount Communications announced that is was renaming its publishing group , says BP Report . |
| 18 | Almost immediately referee , Paul Taylor blew his whistle , the poor Portsmouth fans made their sad way home to the south coast , the players with heads drooped , left the field and many of the United fans were already leaving the ground in the crowd of five hundred five thousand , two hundred and twenty six when Andy Melville scored that vital goal which gave United three very important League points . |
| 19 | Alderman Hegarty claimed that of 250 houses in the Belmont estate , only 17 had been let to Catholics . |
| 20 | The commanding officer , General David Thorne said that was his impression too , as the wildlife — which he had swotted up on before taking over — tended , like the inhabitants , to keep to the fringes A helicopter pilot said he and his colleagues were particularly careful about the albatross , not because of any memories of the ancient mariner but because an encounter with these in flight could be fatal for bird and helicopter . |
| 21 | Late in February 1708 news reached England of a French fleet being assembled at Dunkirk to carry 12 battalions of infantry , plus artillery , to Scotland and having , like his father before him , been presented by Louis XIV with a jewelled sword as a good-luck present , on Thursday 26th ( English style ) James Edward Stuart reached that port , having issued a proclamation denouncing Queen Anne as a usurper . |
| 22 | Now it 's uncertain as to when or if Robin Pask will stand trial , The judge Mr Justice Swinton-Thomas ordered that Pask be admitted to a hospital under the mental health Act , but Leeds Crown Court heard that he was obsessed with thoughts of suicide and may never be well enough to return to the dock . |
| 23 | Aunt Sarah phoned that evening . |
| 24 | It was said in Wickrithe that all Demdykes were crazy , but Aunt Sarah disproved that . |
| 25 | Even President-elect Bill Clinton could not contain his dismay last week after IBM Corp announced that business in Europe was so bad that the company would at best break even in the current quarter — and prescribed only more of the same medicine that has so signally failed to save the situation up to now . |
| 26 | But Dr Caldwell warned that ‘ failure to change the consumption patterns of relatively rich countries like Wales would break the fragile global consensus achieved at the recent Earth Summit , and lead to environmental disaster . |
| 27 | Sales director Simon Littlewood commented that Chronicle ( part of the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper group ) has been chosen from among a number of contenders because of its innovative nature . |
| 28 | Dr Folkman found that heparin , released by mast cells around the tumour , causes the capillary cells to elongate very rapidly . |
| 29 | And the er State of South Carolina tested that principle . |
| 30 | Admiral Sherman promised that Congress would be asked to approve a line of credit for Spain and , that summer , had economic and military delegations sent to the Peninsula to study the details of what Franco required . |