Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In September 1991 President Mitterrand had announced that production would be reduced from 120 to 30 missiles .
2 The voters of the Shankill Road in Belfast , traditionally the home of working class populist independent unionism , had supported Johnny McQuade rather than the UDA or UVF and McQuade had taken that vote into the DUP when he joined it in 1971 .
3 In that year he succeeded Jean Ludet as ‘ Basse de Hautbois et taille de violon ’ ; Ludet had assumed that position on 10 April 1682 at the retirement of Michel Rousselet ( Arch .
4 Strauss had settled that question by treating them as myths , in which the significance of Jesus was indirectly expressed .
5 That was even more urgent now that Mr Lang had admitted that council reform cost estimates by the consultant , Touche Ross , were wrong .
6 Boeing fought to have that clause removed ; Branson , equally tenaciously , insisted it should be retained .
7 They dropped in the earthenware bowl , and were absorbed , so that when , later , Ruth helped to eat that morning 's baking , she imagined she could taste the bitterness of the tears .
8 ‘ If you agree , Admiral , I suggest that Vincent contacts Greek Intelligence after Theodore has finished that list and furnishes them with a list of the towns together with the appropriate names and addresses .
9 Janice had taken that day off from the library .
10 Curtis had closed that side door twice but I 'd found reasons to go back through , the dogs ' bowls , checking the padlock on the cellar and , somehow , I did n't bother to shut it .
11 She said it 's a big , big cut off , if your phone rings you 're out , so of course the phone were ringing , then it went to one in post , no it never , it went first from Ann from Lynnette then to Ann and then it went to Kathy and then it went to erm somebody else and then it come to me but I 've got seven hundred thousand pounds worth of money on my desk that I were banking and Jane had got that job and Jane was on post in cash cos she ai n't got a job cos that thing with them shoes did n't take off and do you know
12 And Fergus had made that final , overwhelming sacrifice so that Ireland should be safe , and so that the Wolfqueen should regain Tara .
13 But England have decided that century was all the evidence they needed to end speculation about their skipper 's future this summer .
14 Francis Mulhern has argued that Scrutiny developed and propagated for the profession of English studies an ideological framework suited to the maintenance of a talent-governed career structure which eventually came to dominate the profession as a whole .
15 Among western historians , Raymond fisher has established the centrality of fur in the seventeenth-century Russian economy and , more recently , Janet Martin has demonstrated that control of the fur trade ( the ‘ Treasure of the Land of Darkness ’ ) was an essential ingredient in the political domination of a succession of mediaeval states , culminating in that of the Muscovite Tsardom .
16 But why had Tatham wanted to keep that house ?
17 Sir Richard Sutton said it was the biggest meet the Cottesmore had seen that year .
18 Between them they could think of no way to get the food Mrs MacDonagh had cooked that afternoon , and the plates she had left in the stove , from the kitchen to the table at dinner time without something getting cold .
19 Soon after the departure of Roszak from Peace News McGrath had quit that paper , nursing an unhealthy obsession with drugs .
20 The various proposals considered in the previous section were presented as if they were additions to the tripartite analysis , it being admitted that Gettier had shown that analysis to be insufficient .
21 The judge went on to say that in the Al Saudi Banque case [ 1989 ] 3 All ER 361 , Mr Justice Millett had held that foreseeability that a lender might rely on audited accounts was not enough in itself to establish the duty of care .
22 Mrs Patten had admitted that canvassing was ‘ rather more stressful when it 's your own husband 's job ’ .
23 A freeholder named John MacLachlan exerted considerable pressure upon Lord Milton , the manager of the Argyll interest , after MacLachlan had supported that interest in the politics of his county .
24 Piggott had sensed that disaster was imminent , taking desperate looks over his shoulder as Mr Brooks started to stumble — shooting his partner head first to the ground at 40mph .
25 In 1969 NATO had agreed that progress in Germany should lead to a conference on European security which Moscow had wanted since the 1950s .
26 Do you know if Graham 's got that flat , he 's been offered a flat
27 Forrest and Cushley have reported that incorporation of cholesteryl esters increases the permeability of model membranes to ions 10 fold .
28 The southern Pennines has the highest calculated load of nitrogen at 25 — 55kg/N/ha , John Lee from Manchester University and Sarah Woodin of the NCC have shown that sphagnum peat bogs first killed off by sulphur dioxide now can not recover because of high levels of nitrogen .
29 The government of Papua New Guinea has announced that timber companies have until the end of April to submit environmental plans to the government , or face having their concessions withdrawn .
30 Now China has joined that club .
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