Example sentences of "it [vb past] that [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It recommended that the second stage of the process towards EMU , as envisaged in the 1989 Delors plan [ see p. 36598 ] , should begin on Jan. 1 , 1993 , and should be as short as possible . |
| 2 | It seemed that the next minute he had thrust open the kitchen door and was advancing on her ; and then he was gripping her shoulder , saying , ‘ Where is she ? |
| 3 | With each provocation it seemed that the next step would be an outright Russian invasion . |
| 4 | Dennis Henigan , of the Legal Action Project at the Centre to Prevent Handgun Violence , called the decision a " big victory " , and said that it showed that the Second Amendment was " no threat to reasonable gun laws " . |
| 5 | The British Cabinet committee , meeting on 14 November , turned down the US idea , proposing instead a 50–50 division of frequency of traffic on the North Atlantic ; but the following day it decided that the fifth freedom should be accepted , subject to safeguards . |
| 6 | Later it emerged that a second tape of the same conversation had been recorded in Oxford , on a different date , from a scanning receiver at the home of Jane Norgrove . |
| 7 | Later it emerged that a second tape of the same conversation had been recorded in Oxford , on a different date , from a scanning receiver at the home of Jane Norgrove . |
| 8 | When I began to re-read letters , and to research in records , official histories , biographies and first-hand accounts of activities behind the enemy lines in France , it emerged that the last enigma was in fact a double enigma . |