Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This defeat of the most successful application of Communist party popular front tactics appeared to demonstrate that opposition forces within Latin America ( backed up by the United States ) were too powerful for such a strategy to be ultimately successful . |
| 2 | But to be fair , none of the drivers had had that Mr Major or Mr Kinnock or Mr Ashdown in the back of the cab . |
| 3 | The vaults were then changed at night or when the bus had finished service and then were counted by a different means , they were counted by machine coin counters and er so , instead of say erm what , sixty or seventy conductors paying in their money , this was all erm on the bus , so there may have been five or six drivers had worked that bus that day and all the takings he 'd taken during the time was all in this night safe in this vault . |
| 4 | he had a way with him and he was , got on very well with Mr and er he told us afterwards that erm the whole trouble was that the children 's baths had leaked that morning |
| 5 | It should not have been a surprise that companies sought to use that range of permissible techniques to present their results in the best light . |
| 6 | Therefore Caliban had a special value to the Perots. ( 4 ) In breach of their duties , the defendants failed to disclose that material fact to the plaintiff . |
| 7 | Prison visitors seemed to acknowledge that drug taking among inmates is widespread . |
| 8 | However the judges did order that margin notes made by the so-called nymphomaniac on their genital size , sexual skills and bedroom fantasies would remain secret . |
| 9 | Perhaps the old man with the torn shoe was not some desperate down-and-out with fists full of stolen mushrooms ; maybe he was just an ordinary person whose shoes had split that lunchtime , while shopping . |
| 10 | By the end of that year , twelve other countries had followed that arrangement , so the United States of America also took its dollar off the gold standard . |
| 11 | So many refugees had passed that way already , and the steamers were dirty with no accommodation , so that again we slept side by side on the decks , and ate cold and rather horrible curry and rice on filthy plates . |
| 12 | Soviet officials began to accept that ASEAN was not an American- or Western-controlled body , although they remained ambivalent about the developing emphasis on regional political cooperation within ASEAN . |
| 13 | New York State legislators voted to grant that institution a one-time infusion of $6.3 million for operations and capital improvements . |
| 14 | It was not until five years had elapsed that track lifting began in earnest , and this was only in fits and starts . |
| 15 | With the improvement of transport during the nineteenth century , building materials were more frequently carried over greater distances , and soon after the opening of railways houses began to lose that harmony with the countryside so characteristic of the older cottages . |
| 16 | In August , 1944 I was flying Mustangs from Grimbergen , through to the Arnhem campaign , and my memories are that we were the first RAF Squadron to be based near Brussels , and only a matter of a few days after our armies had liberated that City . |
| 17 | US producers had complained that access to Japanese retail markets was hampered by the fact that most large retail outlets in Japan were supplied by a small number of wholesalers who discriminated against foreign products . |
| 18 | As the 1960s went by , cynics began to observe that barrack building in an overseas territory was a sure sign that it would soon be granted its independence ! |
| 19 | Throughout the social and satiric age of Augustan reason , poets continued to walk that way from time to time , indulging their anti-rational and unsociable propensities for solitude , melancholy , and intense emotion . |
| 20 | Hanns refused to accept that advice . |
| 21 | Other scenes had clouded that weekend . |
| 22 | I believe a close examination of his recorded opinions , and of the idiom in which those opinions were expressed ( an idiom , even to the end , as much British as American ) , would show that Pound too was not insensible to the ideal of the aristocratic amateur in the arts , and was at least sometimes resentful , just as Yeats was , that political and socio-economic developments had made that attitude to the arts impracticable and sterile . |
| 23 | It has been suggested that there are three theoretical approaches to regimes binding erga omnes : they can be regarded as a special concept within the law of treaties constituting an exception to the res inter alios principle ; they can be justified on a public law basis whereby a group of States assume quasi-legislative competence to create a regulatory regime for a defined territory in the overall community interest ; or other processes such as recognition , acquiescence , estoppel , historic title , or the formation of customary international law can produce an erga omnes effect on treaties intended to have that effect . |
| 24 | The equal opportunity for social mobility was a commonplace in the public mind but pressure of numbers began to render that equality suspect , since it seemed unequal in fact . |
| 25 | Over a thousand men had died that day attacking a ten-mile front from Messines to Passchendaele , so it was n't surprising that the lieutenant 's letter was short and to the point . |
| 26 | Ewias had performed that service for Osbern , and he did not forget it . |
| 27 | The number of responses opposed to the proposals on the grounds that they did not go far enough towards independence was very small — only a few academic boards of institutions had expressed that view . |
| 28 | However , the Germans had foreseen that possibility and they quickly extended their occupation of Italy . |
| 29 | But when the portents continued to gather that autumn , and ruling the kingdom grew further and further from the planned exercise it had been and more like taking a fleet out in freakish , untoward weather , there was a change in Thorfinn as well : the extra swiftness , the finer edge , the sharper zest created by danger . |
| 30 | On Nov. 25 the new coalition government announced that it was to close the prison in the north-western town of Eskisehir where human rights groups had alleged that torture of political prisoners took place . |