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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Since the police visit to John Macnab on 4 September 1939 , the British authorities knew that William Joyce was in Germany . |
| 6 | The accompanying maps indicate that February 1993 was considerably drier , duller and warmer than normal . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Reports quoting French officials indicated that France had refused a last-minute Iranian demand for supplies of enriched uranium from the European consortium Eurodif . |
| 9 | British officials stressed that Major met the Dalai Lama " in his spiritual capacity as a man of peace " . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | of foreign firms believed that Britain 's industrial relations improved significantly in the 1980s . |
| 14 | Yet old farmers say that Frederick does still live , and that he occasionally appears disguised as a pilgrim . |
| 15 | Two recent scientific studies suggested that Glaxo 's two new drugs could have harmful side-effects . |
| 16 | The National Union of Civil and Public Servants claimed that Mr Newton had given the impression of a tendering exercise having taken place . |
| 17 | When the British papers printed that Scotland Yard believed the silver to have been dug up at the Barbariga army base and smuggled by a Yugoslav diplomat , the Federal commission said , ‘ The press is to be criticised for all such insinuations ’ and ‘ the control of the diplomatic bag is so rigorous in Jugoslavia that it is absolutely impossible for the treasure or anything else to be smuggled out that way ’ . |
| 18 | Secondly , as we have seen , by allowing the NSA to eavesdrop on British communications ( as it does from the Morwenstow station in Cornwall which scoops up everything passing in and out of British Telecom 's ground station at Goonhilly ) , it allows British ministers to claim that GCHQ does not monitor calls within Britain . |
| 19 | In 1945 most opinion in the allied countries held that Japan must be wholly disarmed and that Japan should not possess armed forces in future . |
| 20 | But the overall effects meant that LASMO 's loss per share soared from only 2.8p the year before to 52.2p . |
| 21 | While the ICJ judges accepted that Libya , along with many other countries , had a law prohibiting the extradition of its nationals , there was majority agreement that the two UN Resolutions were in accordance with Chapter VII of the UN Charter ( Articles 39 to 51 , covering UN Security Council " action with respect to threats to the peace , breaches of the peace and acts of aggression " ) and should therefore be complied with . |
| 22 | It is easy in the quest for grave scholarly judgements to forget that Leapor wrote for pleasure . |
| 23 | Official sources claimed that John Garang , the commander of the " Torit faction " of the Sudanese People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) , and other leaders had escaped from the town and set up headquarters in Kajokaji , in the border region . |
| 24 | The bombshell came as official figures showed that Britain 's jobless total rose 47,000 to 2,807,000 last month — with workers joining the dole queue at the rate of 1,500 every day . |
| 25 | Official figures suggest that ACET provided care at home for up to one in four of all those who died of AIDS in the UK last year . |
| 26 | Thus the government enquiry into the educational achievements of West Indian and Asian children in 1978–9 in six local education authorities with high concentration of ethnic minorities showed that West Indian children were under-achieving in relation to other children . |
| 27 | The joint chiefs held that General MacArthur should have sufficient resources to provide for the occupation of part of Korea in addition to his principal task of occupying Japan . |
| 28 | Contemporary miniatures show that Dara bore a striking resemblance to his father ; he had the same deep-set almond eyes , the same straight , narrow nose and long , full beard , although in some pictures he appears to have been slightly darker and more petite than Shah Jehan . |
| 29 | Graffiti such as ‘ Kilroy was here ’ may be interpreted by future scholars to mean that Bonnie Prince Charlie stopped there . |
| 30 | A spokesman said official documents indicated that Hunter and manag-ing-director Paul Thomas were sole trustees . |