Example sentences of "that [noun pl] had [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reports suggested that discussions had centred on the creation of a coalition government which would exclude some of the more militant fundamentalist groups . |
| 2 | A communiqué said that discussions had focused on " security and related issues " . |
| 3 | In 1912 , a geophysicist , Wegener , published a book in which he proposed the theory that continents had moved over the surface of the earth . |
| 4 | On June 12 the Attorney General , Amos Wako , announced that investigations had begun into allegations of intimidation and irregularities . |
| 5 | The effect , however , was that authorities had to live with both a GREA and a target and authorities spending above their target suffered a penalty even if their expenditure was within the GREA figure . |
| 6 | By the early fifteenth century the Exchequer had become so overcommitted that creditors had to queue for payment , and a creditor 's place in the queue was determined as much as anything by political favour . |
| 7 | Figures released on Feb. 13 showed that the seasonally adjusted surplus for January 1992 had quadrupled since January 1991 to $3,840 million , and that exports had risen by 9.7 per cent against a 3.8 per cent fall in imports . |
| 8 | Official figures released on Sept. 8 showed that exports had risen by 21.6 per cent to US$7,880 million in August , a new monthly record . |
| 9 | It estimated that total earning losses from Jan. 17 to Feb. 10 were more than US$130,500,000 and that exports had dropped by 95 per cent during the same period . |
| 10 | Amnesty International reported in July , however , that reprisals had continued against the civilian population , at least 50 of whom had died in the past two months . |
| 11 | It meant that heads had to discuss with governors and parents as well as with staff precisely how to make use of greater freedom . |
| 12 | They believed that peoples had to go from one stage to another with mechanical regularity and in predictable order . |
| 13 | On external relations the heads of state and government adopted a declaration on the Soviet Union ( noting inter alia that deliveries had begun of the food aid worth ECU750,000,000 pledged in December 1990 — see p. 37906 ) . |
| 14 | A few days after the première , Constanze 's mother decided that matters had gone on long enough between Mozart and Constanze , who had abandoned the fraught atmosphere of home to take temporary refuge with Mozart 's friend and patroness , the Baroness von Waldstädten . |
| 15 | It was reported that Uzbeks had demonstrated on Feb. 20 in Tashkent to demand the immediate eviction of Meskhetians , prompting the authorities to begin evacuating Meskhetian residents from the city for their own protection , and that on the following day Uzbek demonstrators had broken through police cordons protecting several Meskhetian-run collective farms outside Tashkent and had set fire to around 50 Meskhetian homes . |
| 16 | He added that imports had to continue at competitive levels to safeguard jobs in the processing industry . |
| 17 | The army said at the weekend that troops had reacted to ‘ enemy provocations ’ and intervened to protect local citizens . |
| 18 | Portuguese Radio International reported on April 15 that the inquiry report was identical to the preliminary report issued in December 1991 , which concluded that 50 people were killed in the incident and that troops had reacted to the demonstration with excessive force [ see p. 38677 ] . |
| 19 | The head of the Bar Association , who was also president of Togo 's Human Rights League , Kokou Koffigoh , denouncing this " plot " as a fabrication , said that troops had fired on demonstators in a " premeditated " act . |
| 20 | Environmental groups also criticized the agreement , claiming that governments had bowed to the demands of chemical companies . |
| 21 | Eurotunnel , the Anglo-French consortium that will operate the twin-rail tunnel when it is scheduled to enter service in June 1993 , shocked the City by announcing that costs had risen by £2.2bn from an original estimate of £4.8bn , with the 50-kilometre tunnel still only one-quarter built . |
| 22 | Tim Waterstone declined to expound on the decision , beyond saying that Waterstones had withdrawn from the concession for commercial reasons and was now re-entering it for commercial reasons . |
| 23 | He added , however , that changes had to occur within the Republican Party , including the greater involvement of women and minority groups . |
| 24 | More of them thought that changes had occurred in administration , with more paperwork and more meetings being the most frequently mentioned aspects . |
| 25 | In a radio programme , the Prime Minister told Sue Lawley , in response to a question on housing , that repossessions had stopped before Christmas . |
| 26 | Radio Burkina said that delegates had agreed on the need to maintain " state capitalism " , but that this did not entail the rejection of private enterprise , which " should be supported at all costs " . |
| 27 | But the bête noire second to Lloyd George was Churchill , whose war record seemed to prove all that Unionists had alleged about his excitability and his unfitness for office . |
| 28 | ‘ You may have thought that things had gotten to be as bad as they could get , but Mr Koons ' show proves you were wrong , ’ wrote one particularly shrill reviewer . |
| 29 | Mostly , Defries thought that things had improved since the break-out . |
| 30 | Germany 's representative to the disarmament conference in Vienna , Rüdiger Hartmann , said , however , on Nov. 13 that difficulties had emerged after disagreement over sites and military equipment subject to inspection under the provisions of the treaty . |