Example sentences of "that it [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A source within the fraud squad confirmed that it had received helpful information from Mr Hann at an early stage . |
| 2 | Once the client was in a position to show that it had received independent legal advice to the effect that the law was uncertain it went ahead alone to achieve its chosen objective . |
| 3 | When Two Left Feet was eventually released , critics pointed out that it had become dated , but there was general praise for the performances of Crawford and his two female co-stars , all of whom had been unknown when they made the film but had become names by the time it was shown in cinemas . |
| 4 | Later in the day she was busy again when the Intelligence Officer informed her that it had become necessary for a UDR soldier and his family to move from their present house . |
| 5 | Half an hour later , driven by a resolve almost beyond her comprehension , she was across the lake , informing Tilly that it had become necessary for her to take up more permanent residence at the Lodge . |
| 6 | Water had dripped on to the paper so that it had become sodden and merged with the lettuce leaves . |
| 7 | Whereas Zen knew that the truth prevailed , if at all , only after so much time had passed that it had become meaningless , like a senile prisoner who can safely be released , his significance forgotten , his friends dead , a babbling idiot . |
| 8 | The documentarists were natural allies of the government , well practised in tailoring their own ideas to the demands of their sponsors , and exploring ideas about British character that it had become important to validate in order to distinguish the natives from their foes . |
| 9 | The speed of change was such that it had become difficult to keep up with developments of which perhaps ‘ we have not yet seen the end ’ . |
| 10 | On Oct. 2 Bank of America also admitted that it had contravened central bank regulations and diverted large deposits of public funds to securities transactions . |
| 11 | In late May the FBI admitted that it had questioned thirty-one year old Brian M. McDevitt in connection with the theft , in which two robbers cut such masterpieces as Vermeer 's ‘ The concert ’ and Rembrandt 's ‘ The storm on the Sea of Galilee ’ from their frames . |
| 12 | While officially rejecting the deadlines as an ultimatum and conceding only that it would negotiate over the vexed issue of border controls , Slovenia announced on July 5 that it had demobilized 10,000 members of its defence forces . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Despite being outnumbered by three or four to one the KNU claimed that it had inflicted heavy casualties . |
| 15 | On Nov. 29 the Air Force announced that it had selected six new bases for the mobile MX missile in the states of Arkansas , Louisiana , Michigan , North Dakota , Texas and Washington . |
| 16 | Eurotunnel , the company financing and overseeing the construction of the rail tunnel between France and the UK [ see p. 35469 ] , announced on May 28 , 1990 , that it had secured additional finance from the European Investment Bank , which had agreed to an increase in the project 's borrowing commitment from £1,000 million to £1,300 million , and that the majority of the 210 international banks supporting the tunnel project had agreed to allow the project to continue to borrow on its prevailing £5,000 million funding capacity . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | UNITA on the other hand claimed that it had killed 82 government troops in these attacks and others in Cabinda and Uige provinces . |
| 19 | Reports on Jan. 30 said that two military judges in Padua examining the legality of " Gladio " had , in an interim indictment , charged the organization with " possible acts of terrorism " and claimed that it had maintained close links with the fascist " Marine Star " established after the Second World War . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The first chairperson of the organisation , the evangelical church minister Detlof Rose , considered the congress to be a success and pointed out that it had raised critical questions with regard to the Church and its use of modern technology . |
| 22 | The faded opulence of its belle époque styling , with gleaming brass , mirrored walls and ceiling murals , suggested that it had seen better times in the long distant days of Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Colombian government announced on June 1 that it had granted diplomatic asylum to the former President ( in 1985-1990 ) , Alan García Pérez , the secretary-general of Peru 's American Popular Revolutionary Alliance ( APRA ) . |
| 25 | In fact as well as fiction the Victorian house had become more private than its Regency predecessors ; one might even claim that it had developed distinct symptoms of Wemmick 's siege mentality . |
| 26 | She gave a quick glance at her watch , put on an hour on the ferry to accommodate the time change , and saw that it had gone six , and that , apart for a stop for petrol and a brief stop in Aachen for a cup of coffee , she had been driving more or less continuously since just after nine that morning . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He wished that the BMA would now stop ‘ quibbling ’ and accept the assurance that it had accepted last week that patients will get all the drugs they need , he added . |
| 29 | Edi Sudrajat , announced on Feb. 27 that it had punished six senior army officers for their role in the events . |
| 30 | The arrest of three police officers and two military captains who had been members of the elite UESAT unit of the Panamanian Defence Forces commanded by the former dictator Gen. Manuel Noriega , led to suggestions that a serious coup attempt had been intended , and that it had enjoyed wide support from the police . |