Example sentences of "that the [adj] [noun sg] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remind the Minister that , when the National Bus Company subsidiaries were sold off to the private sector , the first thing that the private company did in many instances was to get rid of the management because of its dissatisfaction with it . |
| 2 | ‘ failed to accord precedence to a foot passenger on the carriageway ’ This point means that the offending driver did not stop at or before the ‘ give-way ’ line , where provided , which is one metre from the limits of the crossing or at the limits to accord precedence . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've heard no hevidence so far that the poor lady did . ’ |
| 4 | That the deaf community did not lac patriotism was shown by a special appeal , organised by the BDDA immediately following the outbreak of the war , which raised sufficient money for the purchase of a " motor mobile physiotherapy unit . " |
| 5 | ‘ And the learned educationist began to entertain a horrible suspicion that the reverse process did n't work . |
| 6 | Whether strictly order twenty eight , er order sixty , rule twenty eight for erm applies in this case is not amount entirely clear to me because the obligation to lodge a bill of taxation under rule twenty nine provides that he must begin proceedings for the taxation either within three months after the judgement direction or order of the terminations enter sides are otherwise perfected , and that is presently on it 's face which seemed to be debited May of nineteen ninety three and er accordingly that is right , it 's not in fact been any failure to comply with order tw order sixty two , rule twenty nine , one , and that has n't been disregarded , it 's not entirely clear to me that erm there is any matter come from paragraph sub paragraph A of rule twenty eight , four , it may already require , still nevertheless erm fall within paragraph B of rule fo , erm there has in fact been a delay in lodging the bill of costs for taxation , the delay being really and truly , the delay in having the order of Mr Justice perfected and it seems to me that although in chasing matters generally speaking it is the court will itself draw the order , nevertheless where er it seems to be clearly in this case would contemplate it that counsel would sign a minute erm that counsel do sign a minute and that minute has been signed having forwarded by the defendants solicitors to the defendants solicitors seems to me it must be the case that erm the obligation to , as it were , forward that minute to the court , it is an obligation which would lie upon the plaintiffs solicitors and it maybe said that erm there has been delay and erm on the best it should be lodged with the court sealed , er shortly after it was received and that therefore on that footing there has been delay lodging the bill of costs for concession , er Mr , doctor does n't seemed to be take any point in relation to that er because it 's not in his interest to do so , it seems to be that he does have to say if it has been delayed , with an order of twenty eight rule four that 's a rule , rule , rule twenty eight er four if he is to have interest disbarred and er Mr er he 'll apparently have the matter of read before the taxing master , it seems that the taxing master did not chew any sympathy with that er suggestion , that er there was in fact no breach of the requirement rule twenty , four , Mr he said , very probably , that erm , look on text upon it , he really is concerned to erm have this case dealt with as you put it on the merits , it seems to me it 's in the interest of all parties that erm I should deal with the case on merits have on the assumption erm that er , that that was lodged properly I think , I ca I , a matter of which found within rule twenty eight , four and that the taxing officer give our interest under that rule . |
| 7 | At the press conference at the end of his visit , Mikoian made it quite clear that the Soviet Union did not want a show-down with the United States over Cuba ( Dinerstein : 1962 , p. 69 ) . |
| 8 | A second line of argument maintained that the industrial revolution did not produce a nuclear family form through the disruption of rural communities . |
| 9 | He subjected quantities of quartz crystal to pressures similar to those occurring in active fault zones in the Earth 's crust , and he found that the piezo-electric effect did induce visible ionisation of the surrounding air , just as Persinger predicted . |
| 10 | It was also found that the weak force did not obey the symmetry C. That is , it would cause a universe composed of antiparticles to behave differently from our universe . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , it seemed that the weak force did obey the combined symmetry CP . |
| 12 | Some philosophers argued that the Prime Mover did not exist , or was a weak and feeble deity who was impotent to intervene in the machinations of the universe : Spike could not believe that . |
| 13 | Could it be that the Prime Minister did n't want to admit to a U-turn , to reneging on a commitment to European partners , ‘ some of those European Commissioners ’ , ‘ the mining areas ’ and ‘ the people of Britain ’ ? |
| 14 | It is a pity that the Prime Minister did not answer the question that I asked . |
| 15 | Not that the Roman aristocracy did n't look after the people who worked for them — though people nowadays do n't like it when you say so — servants did n't sleep the way they did in Tsarist Russia or at Versailles before the revolution , but it still did n't seem good enough to Anna — I told you she was American ? — so Mena always had a nice room of her own ; later on too , at Brown 's Hotel . |
| 16 | X-ray fluorescence ( XRE ) analysis ( see glossary ) of solders used on Roman silver suggests that the Roman silversmith did indeed use several different solders which could have given him a working temperature range from the melting point of silver ( 960°C ) , down to 180°C . |
| 17 | Later , under Roman occupation , they maintained with unbreakable courage their strict monotheism ; so much so that the Roman governor did not even dare to bring his standards into Jerusalem lest the medallions on them depicting the emperor should be thought to infringe the Second Commandment . |
| 18 | Fortunately , it usually happened that the rejected lover did not go away , and when at last the heroine was free , there he was , waiting still . |
| 19 | At the trial state prosecutors argued that subversion charges were warranted because the defendant had sought ‘ to give a wrong picture of the facts in East Timor to prove that the Indonesian Government did not respect human rights in the province ’ . |
| 20 | Speaker 3 appears to be a counter-example to this , in that the black group did better than the white group in guessing her to be black , although the difference was not statistically significant . |
| 21 | Since in 1967 no coherent Palestinian movement existed , it was natural that the international community did not accord Palestinian interests the consideration they deserved . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm sure , ’ said Moore to himself , ‘ that the good doctor did not call here by accident . ’ |
| 23 | He also submitted that it was essential that a jury should reach a rational conclusion by a rational process of thought , and he further submitted that it was wholly irrational for them in effect to hold that the first appellant did not act in concert with the second appellant , but that the second appellant acted in concert with the first appellant . |
| 24 | She mentioned that the other day did n't she ? |
| 25 | This exercise , organized and stage-managed by the Party , was presented by the official press and propaganda machine as a spontaneous demonstration of popular backing for Franco and , by extension , as " proof " that the Spanish regime did not need validation from outside . |
| 26 | Although the two main explanations of Labour 's growth will remain irreconcilables , the fact remains that the Labour Party did emerge to become the second party in the political system by 1922 , and a party of government by 1924 . |
| 27 | The fact that the Labour Party did not lead public opinion as strongly as it might have done meant that the National government had an easier ride than it might otherwise have expected . |
| 28 | Within a few days of seeing me for the first time , he summoned me once again to tell me that the Labour Party did not wish to continue with the action . |
| 29 | I listened with interest to the hon. Member for Gordon ( Mr. Bruce ) when he said that the Labour party did not have much interest in or seek to represent the Monktonhall miners . |
| 30 | It seemed clear that the Franks were a power in Europe that the Eastern Empire did not dare to challenge on a large scale . |