Example sentences of "that they [verb] [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | On April 13 the main religious parties rejected the proposed Islamic Law bills , saying that they sought to perpetuate an interest-based economy . |
| 2 | Mind you not that they 've had an awful lot of success recently but they are , really are a cocky lot . |
| 3 | OK , I often employ builders on the basis that they 've got an honest face only to find they 've nicked my buckets , added unnegotiated noughts on to their invoices and buggered up the plumbing but … |
| 4 | Secondly , on the issue of the precedents for making a defendant prove his defence in the way in which the Bill requires , I argue that every year — certainly since I have been in the House — we have created numerous new offences which have defences attached to them , usually for those who can show that they acted reasonably or that they used due diligence to ensure that they avoided committing an offence . |
| 5 | So , Bath surrendered a league point on the grounds that they had fielded an ineligible player , New Zealander Laurie Heatherley , against London Irish . |
| 6 | Despite a reference to the full accounts and their availability it did not , however , explicitly indicate that they had received an unqualified audit report . |
| 7 | On appeals against the assessments , the taxpayers having conceded that they had received an emolument as a result of participating in the concessionary fees scheme but maintaining that the cash equivalent of the benefit had to be determined under the principle of marginal costing , the special commissioner found that the school incurred no additional expenditure in educating the taxpayers ' sons other than on certain items of equipment and on food that together cost less than the concessionary fees paid and allowed the appeals . |
| 8 | People would believe that it was unnecessary to dispute the matter and that they had received an additional benefit for the injury that had been forced upon them . |
| 9 | Six opposition groups announced on Jan. 3 that they had formed an " Alliance " 90 " to contest the general election , although differences soon emerged , in particular over reunification . |
| 10 | President of the left-of-centre Liberal Party ( LP ) and the chosen candidate of the LP and the left-wing LDP-Laban ( Philippine Democratic Party Fight ) which , on Jan. 3 , announced that they had formed an alliance known as The People 's Coalition . |
| 11 | The Gaullist Rally for the Republic ( RPR ) and the centrist Union for French Democracy ( UDF ) announced on April 10 that they had reached an electoral accord providing for a system of " primaries " for the presidential elections scheduled for 1995 and for " common candidates " in regional and legislative elections scheduled for 1992 and 1993 respectively . |
| 12 | About one quarter of primary and secondary schools indicated that they had prepared an explicit statement of the health education aims of the school for both staff and pupils . |
| 13 | The Spanish authorities announced on Jan. 25 , 1991 , that they had dismantled an ETA commando responsible for six murders and 26 bomb attacks carried out between January 1988 and September 1990 . |
| 14 | She wanted their parents to know that they had had an accident , were safely aboard a Royal Navy ship and would be home soon . ’ |
| 15 | In 1987 14 per cent of the population of Great Britain , 16 per cent of females and 12 per cent of males , reported that they had had an acute health episode in the previous 14 days . |
| 16 | He tried to remember that Fiver was under-sized and that they had had an anxious time and were all weary . |
| 17 | After the outbreak of the revolution in December 1989 , the press thought that they had caught an even bigger fellow-travelling fish than the old Dean of Canterbury . |
| 18 | The main Conservative claim to national support , therefore , namely that they had worked an economic miracle , seemed increasingly shallow . |
| 19 | These words recur so often in Wordsworth 's work that they seem to represent an unwavering core of faith . |
| 20 | The radicalism of the young people in his office consists in this : that they want to create an ideal world flowing with milk and honey , where man is brother to man , and lives in harmony with nature ; where ice is warm to the touch , and no ocean is too wide for a child to wade across , bucket and spade in hand . |
| 21 | The headteacher say , ‘ Evidence showed that our community did value the work we do , that they want to know more about what we can offer and that they want to play an active part in their children 's pre-school experience . |
| 22 | Yesterday , US diplomats formally told the UN that they intended to file an explanation of their actions under Article 51 of the UN Charter , which grants states the right to self-defence . |
| 23 | On Oct. 4 settlers on the Golan Heights announced that they intended to convert an army post into a settlement for Soviet Jewish immigrants within two weeks . |
| 24 | Spain and Italy and later Belgium also said that they intended to send an unspecified number of troops . |
| 25 | TWO union officials at Timex were yesterday given a week to counter a claim that they have breached an interim interdict granted at the Court of Session earlier this month . |
| 26 | Norwich City yesterday confirmed that they have received an enquiry from the FA of Ireland about the availability of the club 's central defender Andy Linighan . |
| 27 | Both parties feeling that they have achieved an agreement they can live with , without it being constantly undermined . |
| 28 | We can speak here of the constitutive role of religious beliefs — in the sense that they have constituted an explanation for phenomena that have subsequently proved explicable without theological reference . |
| 29 | Successful candidates will receive certificates bearing the NCVQ mark — their guarantee that they have won an award qualifying for the status of National Vocational Qualification . |
| 30 | Steroids were begun soon after this and in the absence of further relapse it is possible that they have had an effect on the disease . |