Example sentences of "[that] it [verb] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lonrho last night reiterated its claim that it had received the copy of the report in a brown paper envelope . |
| 2 | AFP reported that it had received the information from the Paris-based dissident group , the Federation for Democracy in China . |
| 3 | The government also stressed its record of liberalizing the economy and five years of continuous growth , while Labour claimed that it had mismanaged the public finances by allowing the national debt to double . |
| 4 | It called on Libya to show with " concrete measures " that it had renounced the use of terrorist methods . |
| 5 | The official Libyan news agency JANA issued a statement on May 14 to the effect that Libya would take three steps in order to comply with that part of UN Security Council Resolution 748 of March 1992 which had called on Libya to take concrete measure showing that it had renounced the use of " terrorism " [ see pp. 38839 ; 38884 ] . |
| 6 | The UK government formally notified the German government on Nov. 9 that it had ratified the " two-plus-four " Treaty on the Final Settlement with respect to Germany , which had been signed on Sept. 12 by the two Germanies , France , the Soviet Union , the United Kingdom and the United States [ see pp. 37717-18 ; for text see p. 37834 ] . |
| 7 | It said it was also satisfied that it had challenged the assumption that AWA was doing anything other than ‘ evidenced ’ policy when its losses were incurred . |
| 8 | One of the unpleasant by-products of this affair was that it had blighted the beginnings of a friendship . |
| 9 | There can be no doubt that this course has heightened the management skills of some of those working in the voluntary sector , but an extra benefit is that it had widened the links between I B M and you , and widened the understanding between both of us . |
| 10 | In its first communiqués the PFKG announced that it had replaced the " defunct and corrupt " al Sabah regime and had closed Kuwait 's borders and imposed an indefinite curfew . |
| 11 | However , they were soon to show their hand and in October 1981 the DES announced that it had asked the local authorities to give urgent consideration to the possibility of setting up short-term machinery to deal with the management and funding of maintained advanced further education . |
| 12 | In Maharashtra a group of Shiv Sena members of the legislative assembly , led by Chhagan Bhujpal , announced on Dec. 10 that it had formed the Shiv Sena ( B ) ; on Dec. 21 Bhujpal was appointed a Cabinet minister in the state government . |
| 13 | For fear of losing one or two sales of its obsolete mainframes , IBM designed the RT so badly that it had to junk the machine completely and start again from scratch to create the ( incompatible ) RS/6000 . |
| 14 | There was no 1940 general election and by 1945 the voters remembered both that the Labour Party had shared responsibility for winning the war and that it had opposed the Conservative policies which led to the war . |
| 15 | In what was seen as a crucial breakthrough for efforts to avert massive famine in the Horn of Africa [ see p. 37845 ] the World Food Programme announced on Dec. 18 that it had secured the definite agreement of the Ethiopian government and leaders of the Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) guerillas to open the Red Sea port of Massawa , closed to shipping since its capture by the EPLF in February . |
| 16 | In November Waterstones had declared that it had terminated the concession , giving six months ' notice . |
| 17 | The first was the assumption that a ‘ form of words ’ which did not amend the text of the Treaty would be sufficient for the Danish Government to be able to claim that it had satisfied the wishes of the people as expressed in the referendum . |
| 18 | In Luxembourg the government announced on Feb. 11 that it had authorized the USA to use its airport for the transit of materiel , troops and casualties . |
| 19 | The council said that it had deposed the President , abolishing his office , and had suspended parliament pending new elections . |
| 20 | Buxton believed that it had lost the confidence and interest of the country because of its practice of negotiating secretly with ministers instead of acting in the open . |
| 21 | Critics argued that it had legitimised the Soviet system in Eastern Europe without providing anything meaningful in return . |
| 22 | Numbers are very small , and of course tabular data are only an extremely crude summary of a very complex range of feelings ; however ( excluding those whose attitudes were not known or impossible to summarise ) , it appears that three carers in the action samples felt the strain had lightened , four that it had remained the same and five that it had worsened . |
| 23 | In the control samples no one said the strain had lightened , five that it had remained the same , and six that it had worsened . |
| 24 | Yesterday , the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate said that it had rejected the company 's plan to return Trawsfynydd 's reactor one to operation for six months of tests . |
| 25 | Instead , by separating transmission from both generation and transmission , the government showed that it had rejected the dangers of efficiency losses due to fragmentation in favour of the potential benefits of competition . |
| 26 | But , on balance , the government seemed able to claim that it had turned the tide , albeit with the aid of £2 billions from North Sea oil to swing the balance into surplus . |
| 27 | Public Information Minister Choi Chang Yoon claimed that it had turned the tide in the government 's struggle with the latest wave of student unrest , the worst to have been experienced by the Roh administration . |
| 28 | The Turkish government , which had announced the intended diversion on Nov. 20 , 1989 , rejected the complaint , pointing to the fact that it had increased the supply of water to Iraq and Syria by 50 per cent between November and January to compensate for the loss of water in January-February . |
| 29 | In combination with the raids , the Israeli Army announced that it had increased the number of soldiers deployed in the West Bank by 20 per cent . |
| 30 | As early as 1524 , Henry had given up all hope of Catherine bearing another child , and by the time he became infatuated with Anne Boleyn two years later , he had already begun to convince himself that his wife 's failure to give birth to a son who survived infancy was a sign that his marriage to his brother 's widow was sinful , in that it had broken the laws concerning affinity laid down in the Old Testament Book of Leviticus ( chapter 20 : verse 21 ) . |