Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] that [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Aug. 21 the South Korean authorities claimed that North Korean troops in the eastern sector of the heavily fortified border had fired upon a South Korean position . |
| 2 | For the first half of the last century , most European nations assumed that France would somehow try to repeat the project . |
| 3 | Economic indicators show that Cheshire claims to be one of the richest counties in the North of England , with hourly earnings considerably higher than the average for England as a whole . |
| 4 | Some experts believe that Germany would be required to sign a treaty with Britain , France and the Soviet Union before they withdraw from Berlin . |
| 5 | Increasing cultural complexities suggest that Lodge 's image of the crossroads might even be brought up to date — and given , appropriately , a faintly foreign flavour — by the possibility of post-imperial Britain becoming increasingly a sort of spaghetti junction , heterogeneous styles and registers meeting , intertwining , competing or coalescing . |
| 6 | Since the police visit to John Macnab on 4 September 1939 , the British authorities knew that William Joyce was in Germany . |
| 7 | The accompanying maps indicate that February 1993 was considerably drier , duller and warmer than normal . |
| 8 | Some chroniclers say that Elliot then died ; others that he escaped and continued to be a thorn in the flesh of the authorities . |
| 9 | During the discussion , one of the French counsellors proposed that Edward was bound to swear fealty , as well as homage to Philip V. Edward 's own words in reply to what he clearly considered an outrageous suggestion survive : they were spoken without the advice of his council , apparently because they had difficulty in hearing the king 's whispered words and he lost patience . |
| 10 | But little of this was clearly known at the time , and so some observers concluded that Paul VI secretly connived with the minority . |
| 11 | Some observers suggested that Brundtland 's stance reflected domestic pressures to " stand up " to external attacks on Norway 's fishing industry , after she was criticized for making concessions to the EC in fisheries talks earlier in the year . |
| 12 | Still , some observers say that Mr Keating already leads the party . |
| 13 | Reports quoting French officials indicated that France had refused a last-minute Iranian demand for supplies of enriched uranium from the European consortium Eurodif . |
| 14 | British officials stressed that Major met the Dalai Lama " in his spiritual capacity as a man of peace " . |
| 15 | Informed sources say that Texas Instruments Inc had Sun Microsystems Inc 's SunOS Unix running on the superscalar Viking Sparc a long time ago , but when schedules for the long overdue part began to slip , it clammed up , leaving the grapevine to hum with negative vibes . |
| 16 | Informed sources say that Mr Major was informed ‘ rather late ’ when much of the Thatcher outburst had already been drafted by Charles Powell , her private secretary , who had accompanied her to the weekend retreat of Lankawi . |
| 17 | Informed sources say that Mr Major was informed ‘ rather late ’ when much of the Thatcher outburst had already been drafted by Charles Powell , her private secretary , who had accompanied her to the weekend retreat of Lankawi . |
| 18 | Some investors complain that Moody 's and S&P were slow to recognise the financial deterioration of American banks and of certain state governments . |
| 19 | Some sources believe that Diana may even eventually move into St James 's Palace . |
| 20 | After her reception in the village store , she was not keen to go back with further questions to establish that Veronica still lived in the Red House . |
| 21 | of foreign firms believed that Britain 's industrial relations improved significantly in the 1980s . |
| 22 | Yet old farmers say that Frederick does still live , and that he occasionally appears disguised as a pilgrim . |
| 23 | Two recent scientific studies suggested that Glaxo 's two new drugs could have harmful side-effects . |
| 24 | And if the 1994-95 regulations confirm that Britain will operate a quota pool system centred on individual companies such as Wiseman Dairies or perhaps even Scottish Pride , most non-producers will be able to bargain with the dairies for the highest price . |
| 25 | The National Union of Civil and Public Servants claimed that Mr Newton had given the impression of a tendering exercise having taken place . |
| 26 | Some critics say that Freud tried to make sex the explanation for everything . |
| 27 | Some microbiologists believe that Agrobacterium 's chromosome is identical to that of the friendly Rhizobium , and that the two microbes differ solely in their plasmid complement . |
| 28 | Some scholars claim that Luke was a doctor . |
| 29 | Some scholars believe that Matthew is making a play on words and that the original word was Nezer . |
| 30 | Indeed some scholars suggest that Eisenhower , from the start of the 1954 crisis , had never allowed his judgement to be warped by an obsessive desire to strike a decisive blow against the Vietnamese communist forces . |