Example sentences of "[vb past] that [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Rutskoy proposed that the 14th army of the former Soviet forces , now under Russian control , should create a buffer zone between the Moldovan security forces and the Russian rebels . |
| 2 | The chairman , Sir Ernest Harrison , promised that the first half loss would be reversed in the second half , but pressure on margins is not going to go away . |
| 3 | Benn promised that the first thing he would do when returning home would be to go straight to see Michael Watson . |
| 4 | It will be recalled that Thales , the first Greek philosopher , was Ionian , and he maintained that the first principle ( arche ) of all things is water . |
| 5 | Fortunately , in my recent meeting with Peter Gordon , in discussing the criticism which the report had drawn from certain sectors , he mentioned that a second report is being prepared for Scotland which is to be launched next June . |
| 6 | In 1992 George Uhl , of Johns Hopkins , found that a second variant of D2 , known as B1 , seemed peculiarly common in people addicted to tobacco , cocaine , heroin , tranquillisers , marijuana and amphetamines as well as alcohol — almost the whole list of commonly addictive substances . |
| 7 | Mendel crossed tall peas with short peas and found that the first generation were always tall . |
| 8 | Bellerophon ‘ slew the Amazons , women peers of men ’ and Heracles , the most popular of Greek heroes , found that the Ninth Labour assigned to him was to seize the girdle of the Amazon queen . |
| 9 | We were married at home , and one of the reasons why is because we bought a very old house about three years ago and on the top floor it has a , a large room which used to be the ballroom , and we did a little research and we found that the last wedding that we know of in the house took place in seventeen fifty eight , when apparently it was very common in Scotland to get married at home , it was more uncommon to go to church . |
| 10 | The Independent of Aug. 19 reported that a second country was known to be developing the missile with Israel , but that its identity was being kept secret . |
| 11 | Erm now erm as regards when it happens to people erm , again going back to this B B C Childwatch Survey um of girls sixty percent reported that the first incident happened when they were ten , forty percent of boys reported the first incident occurred when they were under ten so it seems , if you look at the sort of average , averages are quite deceptive in this area but nevertheless if you look at the average um it seems to happen slightly earlier for girls than for boys . |
| 12 | Radio Cotonou reported that the first round took place " in a calm and serious atmosphere " . |
| 13 | Russian radio reported that the first group of 14th Army troops had left Moldova on May 26 , and that airborne units stationed in Kishinev would withdraw between June 15 and Sept. 1 . |
| 14 | Secretary reported that the first set of four photographs had proved to be very popular and sales to date had covered costs . |
| 15 | Charles Wright , Director of Admiralty Scientific Research , prophesied that the first country to develop such a device would win the war . |
| 16 | After the battering the team had taken in Australia , he realized that the first job was to restore morale , and he did manage to instil some of his own determination into his players . |
| 17 | Er , first of all may I give my sincere and abject apology for not being here to chair the Garrick 's A G M , this is due to a longstanding appointment made before I realized that the first Thursday in December is traditionally the day for the A G M. |
| 18 | They were half-way to the door before Jinny realized that the third person was missing . |
| 19 | The two leaders , attending the fifth summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation ( SAARC ) [ see pp. 37856-57 ] , agreed that a third round of talks at thelevel of foreign secretaries would be held in Islamabad on Dec. 18 . |
| 20 | Of the retired officers three-quarters backed Labour 's policies on the peace process , and 90 per cent agreed that the next government should negotiate with the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) in return for recognition of the state of Israel and renunciation of terrorism . |
| 21 | Peter and I agreed that the next step should be for us ( you ? ) to circulate the above topic/author proposals as an Aunt Sally to Paul and Jackie Schachter to see if this coincides at all with their thinking . |
| 22 | On April 9 the Conference agreed that the next meeting would be held on April 26 following which formal devolution talks would begin and continue until the next planned meeting of the two sides on July 16 [ see p. 38156 ] . |
| 23 | so we agreed that the next time a priest was around |
| 24 | It recommended that the second stage of the process towards EMU , as envisaged in the 1989 Delors plan [ see p. 36598 ] , should begin on Jan. 1 , 1993 , and should be as short as possible . |
| 25 | Reagan also ruled that a third film , on nuclear war , should bear the same ‘ propaganda ’ label and that anyone who hires the films should be reported to the government . |
| 26 | It was later , in my wartime hospital that I first realised that the Second Commandment had not been given to Moses on Mount Sinai but to an Irish priest upon the Mountains of Mourne . |
| 27 | Because , as her heart started to thunder beneath her ribs , she realised that the last time she had seen those brown leather shoes , they were being worn by a man — in Prague ! |
| 28 | At the conclusion of the talks , Cheney announced that the second phase of the US troop withdrawal plan to 1995 , involving 6,000 troops , would not go ahead in view of " the most serious threat " posed by North Korea . |
| 29 | It was all too late for the ILTF , however , which , in 1962 , announced that the first Federation Cup would take place at Queen 's Club in June 1963 . |
| 30 | Nehru , having accepted Commonwealth membership , was content to pay Mountbatten the compliment ; Jinnah announced that the first Governor-General of Pakistan would be himself . |