Example sentences of "[num] [conj] a [noun sg] [modal v] be " in BNC.
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1 | President Havel proposed in March 1991 that a referendum should be held to settle the issue of Slovak secession . |
2 | Hocine Ait Ahmed , leader of the Socialist Forces Front ( FFS ) , declined to attend , and reiterated on Feb. 10 that a date should be set for a return to a " democratic process " which should include the FIS . |
3 | The director whose most famous films include the and Eight and a Half will be buried in the family crypt in his home town of Rimini . |
4 | The Bishop of London , who was responsible for church organization in America , suggested in 1749 that a bishopric should be created for the American colonies ; nonconformist Protestants in England and in America opposed it strongly enough to lead the government to lay the idea aside . |
5 | The result prompted French President François Mitterrand to announce on June 3 that a referendum would be held in France to ratify the Treaty ; both Mitterrand and Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Germany issued a statement expressing their joint commitment to completion of the ratification process . |
6 | Brian Mulroney , federal Prime Minister and national leader of the Progressive Conservative Party ( PCP ) , announced on Sept. 3 that a referendum would be held on Oct. 26 on the issue of constitutional reform . |
7 | In the same way as discussed in section 3.1 that a plane can be found which is tangential to a curved two dimensional surface , a Minkowski space can always be found to match space–time locally . |
8 | Col. Tin U , second secretary of the ruling military junta , the State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , reiterated on Sept. 8 that a constitution would be drawn up following investigations into violations of the elections law . |
9 | 9 Although a group may be active and especially influential within a limited range of issues that are of pressing concern to it , such a group will take no part in a whole host of other issues where different groups will be active and influential . |
10 | The Court of Appeal dismissed a mother 's appeal from an order of Judge Wroath in the Portsmouth County Court on 11 May 1989 that a girl should be adopted and that the parents ' consents to the adoption be dispensed with on the ground that they were unreasonably withheld . |
11 | The Supreme Council decided on April 20 that a referendum would be held in May or June on the draft constitution prepared by the Constitutional Assembly [ see p. 38420 ] . |