Example sentences of "that it [verb] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conclusion in No. 10 was , therefore , that it had become part of the Cabinet Office and was politically starved … on anything that had a political dimension , the tank found itself rather isolated . ’ |
| 2 | The USA , France , Venezuela and Argentina denounced the coup and demanded Aristide 's return to power , a demand echoed by the Organization of American States ( OAS ) , despite the re-affirmation at its June assembly of its traditional position of non-intervention if proof was given by a new government that it had gained control of its internal affairs [ see p. 38286 ] . |
| 3 | The Dutch company announced at the end of last week that it had reached agreement to buy Liber AB in Stockholm , Sweden 's second largest publishing group . |
| 4 | BP announced last night that it had reached agreement with Venezuela 's state oil company to re-activate the Pedernales oilfield in the Orinoco delta which has been out of production since the mid-1980s . |
| 5 | Prussia became aware that it had lost parity with its allies from the Napoleonic years and determined to catch up by creating a series of technical schools — later to include Danzig 's Technical High School for boys and the famous Conradinum — and by beginning to investigate and research industrial techniques . |
| 6 | Peugeot said that it had lost production of 49,000 cars as a result of the strikes . |
| 7 | Both of these points of contention were symptomatic of the fundamental issue at stake for Washington , which was that it had lost control of events in Cuba and a client state which had been regarded virtually as a part of the American mainland had moved out of the US orbit . |
| 8 | The all-party talks on Oct. 12 proved inconclusive , and on Oct. 29 the SLFP withdrew its support for such talks , claiming that it had lost confidence in the government 's will to solve the country 's problems and that none of the opposition proposals had been put into effect . |
| 9 | Was it really so important that it had to take priority over something as necessary as post , which often contains faxes and other mail urgently required . |
| 10 | In response the government announced on March 20 that it had transferred money and gold deposits from the New York branch of the Swiss Bank Corporation to the principal bank in the Swiss capital , Berne . |
| 11 | Last year , though , a group led by Eric Norman at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California declared that it had seen evidence for a 17 keV neutrino in radioactive decays of carbon-14 . |
| 12 | THE Co-operative Bank , the ‘ green ’ banking offshoot of the Co-operative Wholesale Society , revealed yesterday that it had ended banking arrangements with certain customers which contravened its code of business ethics . |
| 13 | That it had made contact was evident , for Sister Mary let out a cry , a weird sound that was rather a yell not a scream . |
| 14 | PC Richard Parry said the car was very dirty and a detailed inspection failed to find any sign that it had made contact with the two pedestrians . |
| 15 | How would it know that it had to lose weight ? |
| 16 | The PRD and PAN claimed that the elections had been a " scandalous fraud " , that the PRI had organized widespread ballot rigging , and that it had used violence to guarantee victory . |
| 17 | The navy did acknowledge , however , having returned fire on March 17 at a boat off Point Pedro which , it said , had then exploded — the implication being that it had contained rebel ammunition or explosive supplies . |
| 18 | The Board reported that it had established management objectives and expressed confidence that the introduction of new management techniques , in many cases building on work in hand , would lead to significant improvements in the speed and quality of service and efficiency . |
| 19 | On June 28 Treuhand announced that it had taken control of PDS landed property , and frozen all its bank accounts , restricting the party 's freedom to spend money from those accounts without Treuhand permission . |
| 20 | A Gosteleradio statement declared that it had taken action after discovering that in September 1990 Interfax had registered as an independent agency without notifying Radio Moscow , but had persisted in using Radio Moscow facilities . |
| 21 | What concerned him was not the brutality but the fact that it had taken place while the Corporals were drunk . |
| 22 | If one were subsequently to receive a report that when the event occurred , the sun had set , one would be able to infer that it had taken place at exactly 12.00 midnight . |
| 23 | The importance of the summit was , above all , that it had taken place , and that the two leaders had been pictured together in amicable fireside discussion . |
| 24 | That policy was overturned in two minutes flat but it is worth remembering that it had held sway since the inception of the service areas fifteen years earlier . |
| 25 | On January 22nd Security Pacific , America 's fifth-largest bank , confirmed a newspaper report that it had held merger talks last year with 11th-ranked Wells Fargo . |
| 26 | United States President George Bush announced on March 14 that , following the electoral defeat of President Daniel Ortega Saavedra , the US government was lifting its five-year economic embargo on Nicaragua , and that it had requested Congress to grant approval by April 5 of $300 million in immediate economic aid and of a further $200 million the following year . |
| 27 | Following the announcement in January that it had suspended production of the Cambridge and Linx brands , Wharfedale has announced that it is to discontinue Linx , though it will undertake to maintain warranty and spare parts support . |
| 28 | Bank of America on Aug. 28 also denied that it had violated banking guidelines or issued or accepted fraudulent bankers ' receipts . |
| 29 | Intertel Communications Inc , currently legally a Canadian company , says from its Teleport Denver Inc base in Colorado that it plans to swear allegiance to the flag and become a naturalised American : it will reincorporate in the US to meet a condition set by the Federal Communications Commission , which gave plenty of ammunition to the Europeans that say that the US market is not as open as Uncle Sam likes to think , by insisting that only American companies could hold earth satellite station common carrier licences — there is no comparable restriction on US companies applying for licences in the UK . |
| 30 | The Council also voted unanimously to request the UK government to declare a continental shelf around the Islands , and announced that it hoped to pass legislation " before Christmas " enabling it to sell exploration licences for oil and other minerals . |