Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] that [art] [num] " in BNC.

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1 We talked about Niki in Austria and from that conversation I realized that the two drivers were reverse medals of each other and that if you could combine the two , you would probably have the perfect driver .
2 Afterwards I learned that the three men were actors , part of a company called The Theatre of the Tube .
3 She knew that the one thing that her mother would never provide money for was a training in medicine , so she wrote eventually to the Boys ' Own Paper to ask them how to go about it , inventing a letter that was supposed to come from a badly-off boy whom she thought would enlist their sympathy .
4 She explained that the three parish representatives had its interest at heart at meetings .
5 When we submitted our first Report on the primary stages we recommended that the three profile components , speaking and listening , reading and writing , should be weighted equally in the assessment process .
6 In Belfast , however , we found that the three inner-city communities differed in the degree of focusing they exhibited .
7 Moreover , we observed that the -40 region on the upper strand and the -43 region on the lower strand ( data not shown ) were much more accessible to hydroxyl-radical cleavage when complexed with the α-C deleted enzymes ( Fig. 3b rows 3 and 4 ) than with the wild-type enzyme ( Fig. 3b row 2 ) .
8 We knew that the one way to get the world 's two greatest detectives to come here would be to stage a mysterious disappearance .
9 In the end they agreed that the 120 commissioners should hold their meetings in the church of St-Castor at Koblenz , lodging each night on opposite sides of the Rhine " to forestall outbreaks of fighting between the commissioners ' men " .
10 When the company began to embody computers in its products , the engineers responsible were dismayed when they found that a 50 per cent overhead on the purchase price of the hardware had been charged by the estimators .
11 When the company began to embody computers in its products , the engineers responsible were dismayed when they found that a 50 per cent overhead on the purchase price of the hardware had been charged by the estimators .
12 Placing in electrode into the culture medium and delivering an extremely short burst of current ( a matter of nanoseconds ) they found that the two different cell types fused together in pairs .
13 They found that the two parents claim and defend a territory of a few square metres in the shallow stream in which they live .
14 They found that the two measures did not separately hold any predictive value , but in combination they discriminated well between families in which a child developed some schizophrenic symptoms and those whose child remained free of such symptoms .
15 They claimed that the two laboratory investigations performed on the painting since it was slashed with a Stanley knife in 1986 showed discrepancies which seriously undermined their validity .
16 Sorry , and erm that in their statement er they indicated that the hundred and forty two employees would be redeployed elsewhere in where possible .
17 At a banquet hosted by Yang Shangkun on Nov. 1 Nixon described the June crackdown as " excessive and unjustified " , saying that it had damaged US respect and confidence in the Chinese leadership and , speaking to Li Peng , he argued that the two countries ' differences over the events in June were " huge and unbridgeable " , but that Sino-US relations should not be allowed to founder over the issue .
18 In his youth he was taught , in accordance with Hindu custom , to repeat the thousand names of God , but he realized that the thousand names of God were not exhaustive and that while God has many names and many forms he is also nameless and formless .
19 Instead , in December 1984 it announced that a 30 per cent cut was becoming ‘ an aim of policy ’ .
20 It recommended that the three Belfast teacher training colleges come together on a single site .
21 He announced that the five northern ( largely Islamic ) states — Sokoto , Bornu , Katsina , Kano and Bauchi — were to be excised from the federation , until the " rightful heir " to the Sultanate of Sokoto was installed [ see p. 36325 for controversy over the appointment in November 1988 of an ally of Babangida as successor to the late Sultan , the spiritual leader of Nigeria 's 60,000,000 Moslems ] .
22 But as we have seen , Bukharin argued that such a method was quite wrong , since it presupposed that the two sectors were wholly antagonistic , whereas they formed a contradictory unity , a living totality .
23 It maintained that the two elements taken together constituted the record and the material must be retained in a way that includes all the pertinent information .
24 But it helped that the one Test forward was Paul Ackford who , still less than a year into his international career , is a phenomenon , consistently winning his own line-out ball , securing kick-offs and loose possession , and cover-tackling more in the manner of a flanker than a lock .
25 It estimated that a 60 per cent cut in commercial debt would be required if the region 's economies were to resume traditional growth levels .
26 Although it recognised that the eight areas of experience were important , the secondary school curriculum was discussed largely in terms of subjects because that is how secondary education is organised .
27 But Morse was consulting the Paddington-Oxford timetable which Lewis had picked up for him from Reception , and was nodding to himself as he noted that the 13.30 arrived at Oxford 14.57 , just as Kemp had claimed .
28 On Feb. 1 the Greek and Turkish Prime Ministers , respectively Konstantinos Mitsotakis and Suleyman Demirel , jointly issued a seven-point communiqué during the World Economic Forum in Davos , Switzerland [ see p. 38795 ] ; it noted that the two governments were planning to conclude an accord of friendship and co-operation later in the year and that they were working together towards a negotiated settlement of the Cyprus issue under UN auspices .
29 As I got to the end of the row it seemed that a hundred hands had grabbed me … my body was being assailed with blows from so many directions , whether from kicks or punches I do not know , and with stars in front of my eyes and bells ringing in my ears , I felt another strange sensation .
30 He added that the 20 staff were giving their ‘ complete co-operation ’ but were ‘ philosophical ’ about the eventual outcome .
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