Example sentences of "that it [verb] [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BIIBA wanted a stay of execution on Fimbra 's plans and thought that it had gained such a deal when its chairman , David Palmer , met Fimbra chairman Lord Elton . |
| 2 | The government announced on June 4 that it had freed all remaining former South Vietnamese officials held in re-education camps , thereby fulfilling a key condition for the normalization of relations with the USA . |
| 3 | Army losses were given officially as 178 dead ; the LTTE acknowledged that it had lost some 500 fighters , whereas the government claimed over 2,000 Tigers killed in the battle to Aug. 3 , and a further 500 in " mopping-up operations " in the succeeding days . |
| 4 | Overall , it could by the end of the transitional phase claim that it had changed the basis of economic competition by removing many restrictive practices and that it had eased some of the pain of economic decline by its policies towards those aging coal and steel plants that were coming to the end of a useful life . |
| 5 | There was another reason , of course , but he was not prepared to admit even to himself that it had played any part in his decision . |
| 6 | How could she tell this impossible Dane that for some wild , unaccountable moment the previous evening , when his mouth had joined with hers , she 'd imagined they shared a mutual attraction so powerful that it had overridden any man-made measurement of time or propriety ? |
| 7 | MacDonald told him that if he had tried to stop it , there would have been a riot , and that it had required all his influence to prevent his followers from singing the ‘ Red Flag ’ in the House of Commons itself on the night the Baldwin Government fell . |
| 8 | The latter denied that it had issued any such weapon and the policemen , backed by courageous superiors , charged the man who fired the shots with attempted murder and both men with illegal possession of the weapon . |
| 9 | It did n't matter that it had taken such a long time . |
| 10 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
| 11 | The connections were , of course , the Red Army : after 18 months of disastrous and brutal reforms , carried out in an overly reckless spirit because the PDPA leaders believed the Russians would always bale them out , Moscow decided in late 1979 that it had had enough . |
| 12 | The Vietnamese government had always maintained that it had returned all US POWs to the US government shortly after the signing of the Paris peace agreements in 1973 . |
| 13 | Three-quarters of Oxfordshire teachers think that it has achieved this . |
| 14 | Apparently it is a big cut , but not so deep that it has done any irrevocable damage , at least that 's the impression I got . |
| 15 | ICL says this upward trend is continuing and that it has gained another 1% in 1992 . |
| 16 | When the overconstrained design problem is viewed in this way it is not surprising to find that it has led most of the thinking of CAD systems . |
| 17 | The fact that PRCS has such a large client base might suggest that it has discovered some magic formula , but Murphy insists the principles of good PR are quite simple . |
| 18 | One of the interesting aspects of the executive search business is that it has enabled some people , who have not been truly successful at other careers they have undertaken , to be more than successful in executive search . |
| 19 | That is a very considerable prize but it has been painful to achieve and I am unsurprised that it has caused some disruption . |
| 20 | Where such qualifications may be allowed for certain warranties , the acquirer will probably require the seller to confirm that it has made all reasonable enquiries . |
| 21 | The smell of a dead coral is not easily forgotten — if your leather coral 's odour makes you fee nauseous it 's safe to assume that it has departed this life , and to throw it out . |
| 22 | HARLAND Simon , the process controls group whose shares have lost over 80 p.c. of their value since a profit warning in February , yesterday confirmed that it has put all its mechanical engineering operations up for sale . |
| 23 | It will soon give a ‘ bleep ’ to let you know that it has added another con to your growing pile , another contribution to that bulging pocket that will soon hold your double helping of pocketmoney … |
| 24 | I 'm hoping that it has worked this time . |
| 25 | The fact is , however , that it has helped both of them to survive difficult times : when he had a small operation , she was there ; when she was ill , he carried up the trays . |
| 26 | Is he worried that it has taken such a deep and prolonged recession to reduce inflation to its current level ? |
| 27 | They do n't realise that it has taken many years to bring the town up to the standard it is now . |
| 28 | There is nonetheless little doubt that it has spent much of its working life as a corn mill , grinding corn for the local population . |
| 29 | Determined not to undermine his DEC marketing team 's present offerings , Goodnight makes big beef about the fact that it has sold some 3,500 versions of SAS in the last three months . |
| 30 | Motor dealer Lex Service dipped 3p to 335p on news that it has sold most of its shares in US electronics distributor Arrow for 146.6m dollars ( £94.4m ) . |