Example sentences of "it [vb past] that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It revealed that the main examiners of food labels were women , particularly and those in the higher socio-economic brackets . |
| 2 | In 1972 it expected that the new system of fewer and larger local authorities would prove more efficient . |
| 3 | To this end it announced that the electoral commission was to be reconstituted in order to free it from political influence and manipulation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Consequently , it recommended that the financial limits should be abolished . |
| 6 | It recommended that the preliminary hearing be abolished , that the district judge be required to conduct the hearing on an interventionist basis , that he or she be required to give reasons for a decision and explain the rules of law and that specific guidance should be provided on the expenses recoverable for small claims . |
| 7 | It recommended that the three Belfast teacher training colleges come together on a single site . |
| 8 | It presumed that the particular classroom layouts and patterns of organization commended would promote children 's learning more effectively than any others . |
| 9 | But as we have seen , Bukharin argued that such a method was quite wrong , since it presupposed that the two sectors were wholly antagonistic , whereas they formed a contradictory unity , a living totality . |
| 10 | It maintained that the two elements taken together constituted the record and the material must be retained in a way that includes all the pertinent information . |
| 11 | The day after Marlene Dietrich 's death , it reported that the legendary actress ‘ had German , French , British and American newspapers delivered each morning , and devoured them while drinking Fortnum 's Prince of Wales tea ’ . |
| 12 | It found that the small South Island-based tribe had an exclusive right to fish virtually all of the South Island coastline , as well as the right to a reasonable share of the country 's 200-mile deep-water fishing zone . |
| 13 | It found that the educational standards of schools in certain , mainly urban , areas were far below those found elsewhere , and recommended a policy of ‘ positive discrimination ’ in favour of these areas and their schools . |
| 14 | And it found that the Daily Star advert had no effect whatsoever on record sales . |
| 15 | It transpired that the whole street had been summoned to hear the declaration . |
| 16 | It transpired that the left side of the nose splitter has been damaged , perhaps when Baldi had clipped Brundle 's Jaguar in one of his passing attempts , perhaps as a result of ‘ trapped ’ vibration from a high-speed engine misfire . |
| 17 | So it transpired that the elusive Zephro Carnelian was a trusted roving agent for the Ordo Hydra . |
| 18 | It transpired that the previous day he had been in Liverpool and given an interview to the Daily Telegraph which had been interpreted to mean that we were about to call in the troops . |
| 19 | It transpired that the previous evening students from the Asrama Merdeka led by Wikana along with student followers of Sjahrir presented an ultimatum to Sukarno : you must proclaim independence immediately . |
| 20 | Western diplomats in Belgrade described the fraud as a " fatal assault " on Yugoslavia 's standing with Western creditors , since it demonstrated that the federal government could not control the money supply . |
| 21 | But it helped that the one Test forward was Paul Ackford who , still less than a year into his international career , is a phenomenon , consistently winning his own line-out ball , securing kick-offs and loose possession , and cover-tackling more in the manner of a flanker than a lock . |
| 22 | It proposed that the minimum threshold for representation in the assembly should be " relatively low " to allow for the widest possible representation , and that decisions within the assembly should be by a two-thirds majority . |
| 23 | It estimated that the full implementation of debt relief plans would remove up to US$6,000 million from outstanding debt ( around 8 per cent ) , but still leave the region owing the equivalent of 106 per cent of annual gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
| 24 | It estimated that the Ethiopian provinces of Tigray and Eritrea required urgent food aid of 980,000 tonnes , and that Sudan needed 1,000,000 tonnes . |
| 25 | However , it was linked by Mrs Thatcher , who suggested that it signified that the Irish Republic was less committed than Britain in bringing the IRA to account for their crimes : ‘ You take these murders of these four people today alongside the decisions in the Supreme Court not to extradite those accused of violent crime — and one is very , very depressed ’ . |
| 26 | The villagers close to it believed that the Dark Ireland was about to ride into the world , but only Medoc rode out , astride a coal-black horse , with Maeve thrown across the saddle before him . |
| 27 | Although it recognised that the eight areas of experience were important , the secondary school curriculum was discussed largely in terms of subjects because that is how secondary education is organised . |
| 28 | On Feb. 1 the Greek and Turkish Prime Ministers , respectively Konstantinos Mitsotakis and Suleyman Demirel , jointly issued a seven-point communiqué during the World Economic Forum in Davos , Switzerland [ see p. 38795 ] ; it noted that the two governments were planning to conclude an accord of friendship and co-operation later in the year and that they were working together towards a negotiated settlement of the Cyprus issue under UN auspices . |
| 29 | It noted that the relevant EC legislation to be integrated into the EES treaty as a common legal basis had been broadly identified and would in principle be acceptable , but that the question of joint management and development of EES legislation would have to be resolved , and an appropriate legal and institutional framework established . |
| 30 | For some weeks , it seemed that the joint US/NZ resolution on drift-netting would founder in the mire of State Department compromise , as successive US proposals were rejected as too weak by the New Zealanders . |