Example sentences of "[verb] in [adj] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were sufficiently impressed by his abilities to request in 1829 that he be relieved of his military duties and appointed president of the council of government on the Gold Coast . |
| 2 | The head of the decyphering branch of the foreign ministry there claimed in 1823 that he had personally broken eighty-five foreign codes , at a time when eighty to a hundred letters were being opened on each working day . |
| 3 | The AWB claimed in 1990 that it had already trained 12,000 men . |
| 4 | The Government claimed in 1987-88 that they had a mandate for their legislation . |
| 5 | And with the help of all these er er pieces of equipment er we found in general that we were reaching a new standard of production , where we were increasing it er and we were able to bargain more strongly and more favourably on behalf of our members . |
| 6 | While exploiting the conquered territories France constantly proclaimed in public that it had come to Indochina on a " mission civilisatrice " to help the backward nation into the light of the twentieth century . |
| 7 | Stanley Baldwin had argued in 1923 that it was not ‘ wise , as some suggest , to give everybody a secondary education . |
| 8 | This letter from Mactavish reveals the assumption made in 1926 that it was the WEA 's exclusive duty and responsibility to provide working class education , but had he read the 1926 UEMCC report more searchingly he would have realised that the universities ' role was not merely advisory but intended to promote the development of liberal adult education independently of other providers . |
| 9 | However , on behalf of many of my constituents — I am sure that this is true for many other people around the country — I should like to stress that , although none of us thought in 1979 that we would be discussing this situation today , as a result of it many of our constituents have received a quality of life far superior to that which they might otherwise have had . |
| 10 | Sometimes mistaken for the name of a tribe of redskins , the word ‘ Hooliganism ’ established itself in Russia with such authority and incomprehensible rapidity that one observer thought in 1912 that it was ‘ as if it had long been expected , as if necessary for the filling of an empty space ’ . |
| 11 | They see their lives as becoming progressively more empty and meaningless , and this essentially pessimistic outlook on their lives is reflected in all that they do , or perhaps more accurately , in all that they fail to do . |
| 12 | live in ghettos , but as part of his policy of diminishing the power of the traditional landowning classes , he decreed in 1927 that they could own land , vote and live outside the ghettos . |
| 13 | Katherine Colgrave 's lawyers claim she only discovered in 1984 that she may have escaped disability if she 'd been correctly diagnosed and treated soon after birth . |
| 14 | A second body was the Protestant Dissenting Deputies which had been founded in 1732 and was , by the end of the nineteenth century , healthier than its older friend although The Christian World noted in 1901 that it ‘ seems to have fallen on evil days ’ . |
| 15 | Although as she changed from bus to bus she was free at last of the accusing voices , she had time for a number of second thoughts , wishing in particular that she had put on other clothes , and had had her hair cut . |
| 16 | Although the NUR still has some members among drivers , it agreed in 1983 that it would stop recruiting them . |
| 17 | Former President Reagan announced in 1983 that it was United States ' policy to accept the normative provisions of the Convention as reflecting customary international law . |
| 18 | The record for ambition to be speedy seems to be held by the Selangor State government in Malaysia , which announced in 1988 that it was now ‘ possible for applications to be approved in one day ’ . |
| 19 | Wright confessed : ‘ When the ball goes in like that it 's hard to contain yourself . |
| 20 | Unlike the US agencies and the EC , the DHSS/DoE Joint Committee on Medical Aspects of Water Quality proposed in 1984 that it would be acceptable to relax the EC standard by 60 per cent , from 50 to 80 mg/litre . |
| 21 | Claudia did n't know Garry , or even his surname ; Dana had always had men in her life , but she had n't seemed serious about any of them , and so far Claudia had hoped in vain that she would find someone to love and to provide the anchor she 'd been missing so badly since their mother had died . |
| 22 | The Seebohm Committee , responsible for the broad shape of modern social services departments , declared in 1968 that they attached great importance to research : |
| 23 | For , even if they knew in general that it was unlikely to be the case , they could not afford to take chances . |
| 24 | When or why he was reinstated in Marseilles is not known , but Guntram continued to harass him ; claiming in 585 that he was one of those responsible for the murder of Chilperic , apparently one of the wildest of many such accusations made by the king . |
| 25 | A former Russian ambassador in London complained in 1803 that it had " more people than the offices of all the secretaries of state in Europe combined " . |
| 26 | Hay & Maddock note that in the United Kingdom there is no statutory obligation to notify theses to any central body , and Urquhart said in 1971 that it was often more difficult to obtain sight of a British doctoral thesis than it would be to obtain copies of theses emanating from European and North American Universities . |
| 27 | Mr Ridley said in 1987 that it could not lend to those who seemed unlikely to be able to service their debts — He went too far : technically , it could . |
| 28 | In contrast Sturge reflected in 1841 that he and fellow activists were not now in favour in High Quarters here' . |
| 29 | Rory shook her head , finding it hard to take in all that he was telling her . |
| 30 | These entities have in common that they consist primarily of a length of nucleic acid ( DNA or RNA ) , and can multi ply only within living cells , prokaryotic or eukaryotic . |