Example sentences of "[verb] that [adj] [noun] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that each woman had packed up her own cake to bring to the fête . |
| 2 | The day after Myeni 's warning , Buthelezi distanced himself from it in a statement denying that any decision had been taken to deploy fighters . |
| 3 | He responded by denying that any concessions had been made . |
| 4 | The men , one of whom was named as Ernest Joma , were quickly arrested , however , and two hours later the then Information , Ideological Guidance and Co-operative Development Minister , Simon Pierre , broadcast a message denying that any coup had taken place and calling for calm . |
| 5 | By 8 March there were 27 dead and 227 wounded in the rioting ; later it was disclosed that 2000 persons had been detained ‘ behind barbed wire ’ . |
| 6 | Such enthusiasm may have had as much to do with the excited nationalism of wartime , as any substantial appreciation of these films ' merits , and it should not be supposed that British filmmakers had universally gone from being dull and unimaginative to become masters of the cinematic art . |
| 7 | In the context , this ‘ very lax attitude ’ seems to be measured against circumstances ( such as late Old English or the present day ) in which there is a uniform standard of spelling : thus , what this really means is that in Early ME there was no uniform standard , and indeed Scragg adds that these scribes had ‘ no conception of a spelling standard ’ . |
| 8 | Until an hour or two ago I certainly did n't know that this problem had arisen , but the date April has been on the lips of my er Honourable Friend er and of the Noble Minister er I used to represent part of the City of Leeds and Honourable er a and Noble Lord you 'll have heard recently of behaviour at Elland Road Football Ground on the death of Sir Matt Busby and one can only wonder what sort of people er we 're dealing with , but many of them arrive at Leeds City Station on the day of a match and they come early and they have then to get their way to Elland Road and there are often real problems . |
| 9 | Glad to be in Dublin once more , I roamed around the shops , noticing that many bakers had ‘ Brack Loaves ’ on display , with rings placed on them . |
| 10 | I saw no bodies , although I did not doubt that many people had drowned . |
| 11 | Senior ministers last night emphasised that the British position had remained unchanged since the Madrid summit , where they had stressed that adequate preparation had to be made long before stages II and III of the Delors plan could be settled . |
| 12 | Senior ministers last night emphasised that the British position had remained unchanged since the Madrid summit , where they had stressed that adequate preparation had to be made long before stages II and III of the Delors plan could be settled . |
| 13 | The peaceful periods demonstrated that both sides had common interests . |
| 14 | It was pleasant to know that that fact had been noted among the critical young gentlemen who comprised , as far as it could be done , Edwin 's set . |
| 15 | For standing on the , on the seats you see , which I mean my father was right he 'd got the experience to know that several men had been drowned like that . |
| 16 | How was I to know that old Ian had n't trekked across South Africa with a couple of elephants and demanded ‘ an audience with Nelson or I 'll smash you with a stump , . |
| 17 | He added : ‘ The chancellor must come to explain why the secret arrangements were such that the public were never to know that this payment had been made . ’ |
| 18 | At the same time , it should not be forgotten that some writers had been advocating the use of multiple methods for years : |
| 19 | Allegations were rife : evacuees complained of cruel and miserly hosts ; hosts maintained that many parents had deliberately sent children off in their worst clothes in order to arouse sympathy and gifts of replacement clothing . |
| 20 | He maintained that Latin America had already been drawn into the capitalist system in a dependent role , and that the activities of imperialism would ensure that it would retain this colonial status . |
| 21 | The nation where this debate is being launched has just emerged , in the spring of 1974 , from a confrontation between Government and unions so destabilizing that some people had been daily expecting to see tanks in Whitehall . |
| 22 | The MRD later claimed that small crowds had assembled in six places without confronting the police and that 1,500 had been detained . |
| 23 | And as the boat station had been there before nineteen sixty six , probably a hundred years before nineteen sixty six , it was then claimed that this person had adverse possession , which in short , is squatter 's rights . |
| 24 | O.K.W. subsequently claimed that German fighters had shot down seven Hurricanes without loss , yet strangely only three claims can be found for 7/JG 26 , one of which may not even have been confirmed . |
| 25 | The army later claimed that 15 guerrillas had been killed . |
| 26 | Indeed , I was slow to discover that other men had had this experience , for it had been possible to read books and to associate with men on other grounds … |
| 27 | Wilberforce doubted that humanitarian zeal had sufficient staying power despite his own and others ' expression of it in 1792 . |
| 28 | Several people mentioned that fellow students had learned a great deal about many aspects of disability through having them in the peer group . |
| 29 | The American replied that he was glad to find that botanical taste had been inherited and reported that a pear tree , grown from a seed sent to him by Lady Petre , had produced the finest fruits in Pennsylvania . |
| 30 | He was surprised to find that this dairymaid had such sad thoughts . |