Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] that [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the defeat of the 1981–86 Socialist government , the new culture minister Fraņois Léotard made clear that the new administration would maintain the r.p.m. system on books — provoking a ringing counter-attack from the Fnac 's then chairman , Michel Baroin , calling for the ‘ spirit of democracy , freedom and consideration for ordinary citizens ’ to prevail . |
| 2 | Census data , for instance , made clear that an increasing proportion of the more numerous national groups had been choosing to live in their ‘ own ’ union republic , with the greatest increases in Central Asia , the Baltic and Armenia ( Russians , by contrast , had become more dispersed throughout the USSR ) . |
| 3 | Finally , it became clear that no preliminary conference would be possible without widening the discussions unduly , and it seemed best to hold bilateral discussions first . |
| 4 | Greeted that evening by our charming host Eduard de Nazelle , Sales Director of Champagne Veuve Cliquot , it soon became clear that a special night lay ahead . |
| 5 | In fact it became clear that a considerable part of the defence was going to be that of justification , that the laws and usages of war permitted reprisals to be taken against hostages . |
| 6 | But it became clear that an outright sale was the best way forward , its spokesman said yesterday . |
| 7 | Twice growing confidence has been dashed ; once in the aftermath of the Jennifer 's Ear broadcast ; then late on Wednesday when it became clear that the crucial poll breakthrough had not , after all , taken place . |
| 8 | With time it became clear that the new region was too distant from Tornsk to be controlled with ease . |
| 9 | It became clear that the relevant government ministers were deliberately hindering the progress of the necessary bill . |
| 10 | A self-consciously strict conventionalist judge would lose interest in legislation and precedent at just the point when it became clear that the explicit extension of these supposed conventions had run out . |
| 11 | The Paris–Bonn axis , it is true , was about to be formalized , with the signing of the Franco-German treaty in January 1963 , but it quickly became clear that the Federal Republic was not willing to make this axis the basis of its foreign policy . |
| 12 | It gradually became clear that the technological sequence was only a broad outline — the real situation was much more complex . |
| 13 | McDaid denied any links with the IRA and withdrew after it became clear that the junior partner in the government , the Progressive Democrats ( PDs ) , would not vote for a reshuffle including him . |
| 14 | The process went so far in Algeria earlier this year that the army cancelled the results of general elections when it became clear that the Islamic Salvation Front would win an overwhelming victory . |
| 15 | However , despite the ingenuity of Shklovsky 's efforts , it became clear that the differential principle behind poetry could not be very extensively or very effectively applied to prose , and the functional opposition had to be constructed on rather different lines . |
| 16 | Also it became clear that the local currency was a problem . |
| 17 | The American critics , to whom it was rapidly becoming clear that the dominant culture was to be their own , were sceptical of his Anglicanism and Toryism . |
| 18 | I remain convinced that a democratic majority exists in Scotland for higher spending on public services and on our infrastructure . |
| 19 | It seemed odd that a military organisation could have the power to change your entire identity . |
| 20 | Thus it seemed clear that the lexical representation used for matching should already include a great deal of information about the word 's possible phonetic realisations . |
| 21 | At a meeting of the UN Security Council on Dec. 7 , it was made clear that a prospective resolution calling for a Middle East peace conference would not achieve US endorsement . |
| 22 | The earlier discussion should have made clear that the postclassical perspective does not allow for the degree of certainty or inevitability that such terms are usually taken to imply . |
| 23 | But he said he wished Mr Ridley had made clear that the strong argument for conservation was only over-ridden because of ‘ a combination of wholly exceptionable circumstances ’ , and that the case was ‘ unique ’ because of the high standard of the proposed scheme . |
| 24 | Stalin had made clear that the Soviet Government acknowledged no Prisoners of War — " Russia has only soldiers in her army , dead soldiers or traitors " . |
| 25 | It must be made clear that the Labour party is not to blame for the poll tax which the Government introduced . |
| 26 | The Act did not specify what the rate was to be , but it was made clear that the initial rate of 40 per cent would be increased to 45 per cent and then to 50 per cent ‘ at reasonably short intervals ’ . |
| 27 | In the ease studies so far considered it has already been made clear that the particular study itself is , as it were , the product of a set of concerns in politics . |
| 28 | Since there seems to be some doubt about the matter , it should be made clear that the High Court 's inherent jurisdiction in relation to children — the parens patriae jurisdiction — is equally exercisable whether the child is or is not a ward of court : see In re M. and N. ( Minors ) ( Wardship : Publication of Information ) [ 1990 ] Fam. 211 , 223G . |
| 29 | Importantly , when the landmarks were moved between locations , the feeders were also moved such that the spatial relationship between L+ and F+ , and between L- and F- , was always maintained ; that is , if F+ was 40cm to the ‘ south ’ of L+ for a given rat , it remained so on all trials . |
| 30 | It was also known that Mrs Thatcher 's closest advisers , Charles Powell and Bernard Ingham , were implicated in the leak , and it seemed improbable that the Prime Minister should have been totally ignorant . |