Example sentences of "[noun prp] that [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Heseltine said on Tuesday that Nigel Lawson was wrong to dismiss the deficit as a minor matter — something which he said smacked of ‘ socialist naivety ’ . |
| 2 | She had been supervising classes at the Manchester school and was , in fact , the Miss Walker that Anne Liddy remembered making her up on tour . |
| 3 | IT WAS WHILE ‘ I 'M TOO SEXY ’ was enjoying its long stay at number two beneath Bryan Adams that Richard Fm told the Sun that he was bisexual . |
| 4 | The Northern Echo revealed on Saturday that Darlington Wedding Cars had disconnected its phone and left no forwarding address . |
| 5 | The Israeli Defence Ministry announced in mid-April that Bir Zeit University , near the town of Ramallah on the West Bank , would be allowed to reopen gradually . |
| 6 | The Dutch prime minister , Ruud Lubbers , said on Friday that Mr Sgreccia 's remarks were ‘ absolutely unacceptable ’ . |
| 7 | Reports in mid-September that Saudi Arabia was to double its own army were linked with prospects of a large-scale US military sales package . |
| 8 | Since ocean carriers must now verify prior to accepting NVOCC shipments to or from the United States that FMC bonding and tariff filing requirements have been met , the registration feature is designed to facilitate the carriers ' verification and to gain a standing for the NVOCC bill equal to that of its European counterpart , the FIATA bill of lading . |
| 9 | The Inland Revenue had told the SE that Barlow Clowes ' advertising literature appeared misleading about the tax implications of investing in certain funds . |
| 10 | Cliff Jackson was a west country boy who was discovered by Bert Head in his native Swindon , but it was from Plymouth that Mr Head brought Cliff to Selhurst Park in September 1964 . |
| 11 | When she arrived at Walsall , she informed Edward that Mrs Noble , after sending her earlier a ‘ vulgar and jeering ’ letter in which ‘ She does her best to make me doubt you ’ , had forbidden them to meet or correspond until Helen reached years of discretion — her twenty-first birthday on 11 July 1898 . |
| 12 | This was the same Herod that Pontius Pilate sent the accused Jesus to during his trial , on the excuse that , because Jesus was a Galilean , he came under the rule of the Tetrarch of Galilee ( Luke 23:2–7 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ Did you tell Rex that Alan Dysart worked for you in Swindon during university vacations ? ’ |
| 14 | That was one of the sides of Ken that Leslie Phillips saw . |
| 15 | The Chancellor has evidently made it clear to Moscow that West Germany respects East Germany 's existence as a separate state , that it does not want to alter the present military set-up of Nato and the Warsaw Pact , and that although it aims to overcome the division of Europe , this does not also apply to the political division of Germany — at least for the foreseeable future . |
| 16 | She had heard from Mrs Crick that Mr Clare had spoken of marrying a country girl to help him farm , milk cows and reap corn . |
| 17 | Information arrived from deep in Northumberland that King Edward was already on the move northwards , earlier than anticipated , having left Newcastle the day before at the head of a great army estimated at sixty thousand , well equipped with cannon and siege-engines . |
| 18 | We have lived through the world 's worst famine for a decade ; accepted passively , pictures of Ethiopian toddlers , bloated and matchstick thin ; the tragedy at the Heysel Stadium and the Hillsborough disaster , experienced the bitterest industrial dispute in Britain since The War ; remember the IRA morning at Brighton that Mrs Thatcher was not meant to see ; the mental picture of Mrs Indira Gandhi on her funeral pyre ; the young policewoman gunned to death by a Libyan in St. James 's Square , London ; human barbarities in the South African townships ; the earthquake in Mexico City ; West Indians savaging England by 5 Tests to 0 ; the current loss of the Ashes to Australia ; Torvill and Dean taking ice dancing to new heights ; Britain 's Olympic team returning from Los Angeles with five gold medals , 11 silver and 21 bronze ; Cambridge cox sinking the boat before the race had started ; Boris Becker becoming the youngest , at 17 , to win the Wimbledon title ; England 's trouncing of Australia 3-1 in the Test series ; Bob Geldof transformed from Boomtown Rat to world-famous humanitarian ; Sandy Lyle becoming the first Briton since 1969 to win The Open . |
| 19 | Unlike the sycophantic official court chronicles — the Shah Jehan Nama that Dr Jaffery had spent so long transcribing — the accounts of the two European travellers were packed with reams of malicious bazaar gossip . |
| 20 | The story begins at Limehouse Reach where Gaffer Hexam , pursuing his trade of recovering dead bodies from the river , finds the drowned man supposed to be young Harmon ; it is upstream near Henley that Bradley Headstone attacks and thinks that he has killed Eugene Wrayburn , his hated rival for the love of Lizzie Hexam . |
| 21 | I had to explain to poor Isabella that Mr Edgar had refused to write to her . |
| 22 | Some while earlier , a weary-sounding Lewis had informed Morse that Mr Eddie Stratton had gone off somewhere just after lunchtime — from the railway station — and had still not returned to The Randolph . |
| 23 | Demonstrators were angered by a government announcement in February that King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV had agreed to amend the law , thereby giving Tongan citizenship to 426 foreigners who had bought Tongan passports . |
| 24 | On 29th January , 1855 , Aberdeen 's Government had been heavily defeated in the House of Commons on a censure motion criticizing its conduct of the Crimean War , but it was not until 6th February that Queen Victoria brought herself to appoint the seventy-one-year-old Palmerston as Aberdeen 's successor , although his prestige and popularity had made him the inevitable choice as Prime Minister . |
| 25 | But The Washington Post reported on 22 February that Mr Frohnmayer had been warned last October that he might as well start looking for a new job . |
| 26 | He needs more than one victory to win confidence in a town that has never much loved him ; and he can not afford even one more tiny slip if he is not to convince Washington that Mr Perot 's cruel judgment of his talents was right . |
| 27 | Mrs Thatcher has been alarmed over reports from Washington that President Bush is already contemplating follow-on talks from the present East-West negotiations on conventional forces . |
| 28 | She told Vanity Fair that it was well known in Washington that President Bush had had an extra-marital affair . |
| 29 | John wrote to Hanns at the end of May that Tamara Karsavina , a former star of the Diaghilev Ballet , was planning to use Brae and Carter in a ballet ‘ for some small society … and it 's then to be repeated when Alan Carter is away on tour — and she 's trying me out ! |
| 30 | The application , made under the name of Deputy Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs , Kim Yong Nam , followed a decision announced at the end of May that North Korea was dropping its previous insistence on a single Korean seat at the UN . |