Example sentences of "[noun prp] that [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United Nations said on Tuesday that three single-engined propeller-driven craft — one biplane and two monoplanes — dropped bombs last Saturday on two villages south-east of the besieged Muslim town of Srebrenica . |
| 2 | In the Chinese opinion this amounted to ‘ telling those advocates of neutrality for Afghanistan that any political solution must conform to the Soviet condition of recognising the accomplished facts of the Soviet military invasion and the ‘ legitimacy ’ of the Karmal regime ’ . |
| 3 | In response to the Sept. 11 announcement by the Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that 11,000 Soviet troops were to be withdrawn from Cuba , an editorial in the official Communist party newspaper Granma declared that the decision had been " unilateral " , had broken historical and legitimate bilateral accords and was the equivalent of giving a " green light " to the United States to carry out " aggressive plans against Cuba " . |
| 4 | It is an important part of the philosophy of ZBB that all possible alternative strategies are presented . |
| 5 | In Nick Darke 's Kissing the Pope , however , the Sandinistas are given unequivocal white-hat status : a visit to Nicaragua apparently convinced him and his director Roger Michell that that unhappy land was ‘ one of the world 's few areas of moral black and white ’ . |
| 6 | Roos 's donation of ‘ La Celestine ’ to the French State and the undertaking he received afterwards from Culture Minister Jack Lang that another rare Picasso he owned , ‘ Les Noces de Pierrette ’ , would be allowed to leave the country , thus greatly increasing its value , is an aspect of the Celestine affair which has not featured in the court case . |
| 7 | There is more evidence in Germany that domestic inflationary pressures due to buoyant growth and expected fiscal stimulus for next year will leave little room for relaxation on the interest rate front . |
| 8 | Kleymenov , deputy head of General Headquarters of the Soviet Armed Forces in Ulan Bator , ended with an agreement in early March that all remaining Soviet troops would be withdrawn from Mongolian soil ; the operation would begin in 1991 and be completed by 1992 . |
| 9 | Much more is known about Ealdred that most Anglo-Saxon churchmen , partly because both the ‘ D ’ version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Chronicon attributed to Florence of Worcester [ q.v. ] were written in his former dioceses not long after his death . |
| 10 | However , early budgets were rapidly broken as demand for medical services increased relentlessly and the need to make choices with scarce resources soon became apparent , thereby straining the original promise of the NHS that all medical needs should be met . |
| 11 | But the local publican told Jane that these maligned outsiders behaved much better than drunk Councillors . |
| 12 | As yet , however , there was no indication from the accounts available to Gould that these different species of finch depended for their characteristics on their different localities . |
| 13 | It suddenly occurred to Hazel that these desperate interruptions seemed to follow any question beginning " Where ? " |
| 14 | In August Göring told Lipski that certain anti-German incidents along the Polish border were poisoning the atmosphere and that Poles were conspiring to interfere with the work of the League in Danzig . |
| 15 | ( It is a prerequisite of a complaint to Strasbourg that any possible domestic remedy should first be explored . ) |
| 16 | As a biologist , I agree with Axelrod and Hamilton that many wild animals and plants are engaged in ceaseless games of Prisoner 's Dilemma , played out in evolutionary time . |
| 17 | I think that the riders for health project has given us ah a model that can be used in a great many other situations and we 've found here in Lesotho that many other ministries and government departments are interested in what we 're doing because the motorcycles , if used properly , can provide a very cost effective form of transport . |
| 18 | She was motoring through Germany , though , when it suddenly dawned on her that she had n't asked Cara that most fundamental of questions — when was she supposed to return to England ? |
| 19 | A White House spokesman indicated that the US had also warned Iraq that any military interference in international relief effort for the Kurds would be met with force . |
| 20 | It has , of course , been a continuous feature of Britain 's involvement in Europe that each new step , seen at the time as ‘ technical ’ , ‘ consequential ’ , ‘ of no real account ’ , is later declared to be the point at which the pass was sold . |
| 21 | ‘ Coincidentally , we are now seeing coming out of Eastern Europe that same broad attitude being adopted , not only by the democratic socialists and social democratic parties which are emerging in the East , but also amongst the reform wings of the old Communist parties led by a new generation who realise the command economy Stalinist game is completely up . |
| 22 | In March 1989 Shevardnadze had told Izvestiya that several bad foreign policy decisions ( including that in 1979 to intervene in Afghanistan ) had been the result of leaders not consulting a wider circle of views within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Supreme Soviet . |
| 23 | The admission followed revelations by former RAF ace Pablo Mason that some Top Guns had backed out of Tornado missions against Iraq . |
| 24 | On April 29 the government informed the IAEA that all weapons-grade uranium was buried under rubble from allied bombings . |
| 25 | Our investigations of casual working in the catering industry confirmed the impressions given by the data from the LFS that most casual workers did not want to work on a regular , continuous basis . |
| 26 | She had spent so many hours last night thinking about a pathetic , grief-stricken Harriet Shakespeare that this small , tough woman had taken her by surprise , almost annoyed her . |
| 27 | On March 29 Moscow radio reported that almost all Ossete villages in South Ossetia had been razed by Georgian militants , and on the following day there were ominous reports from officials in North Ossetia that 12,000 armed Georgians were massing for an assault on Tskhinvali and surrounding districts still under Ossete control . |
| 28 | Despite continuing reservations concerning " character " issues — throughout the campaign Clinton had been assailed over various aspects of his private life and judgment — there was evidence throughout April that many senior Democrats had accepted the inevitability of his nomination and had begun closing ranks around him in preparation for the campaign against Bush . |
| 29 | It would be misleading to imply from the experience of Mazda that all large companies have immunity from bankruptcy . |
| 30 | A senior official of the Czechoslovak Atomic Energy Commission has told an international conference in Vienna that some nuclear reactors built in his country in the 1970s fell below Western safety standards . |