Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] that a " in BNC.

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1 Belgium , France , Denmark and West Germany agreed that a community-wide ) carbon tax should be applied .
2 Unit trusts , building societies and banks would be able to provide personal pensions and Nigel Lawson agreed that a 2 per cent National Insurance incentive should be given to those who joined the new schemes .
3 A significant court ruling on the subject of sexual harassment was handed down on April 16 , when a judge in Fukuoka ruled that a publishing company had violated the rights of a former female employee who had felt obliged to leave her job after allegations of alcoholism and sexual promiscuity against her .
4 As the two girls whirled downstairs towards the clattering dining room , Victoria realised that a wedge had been tapped into their ten-year friendship .
5 There is a further clause in the 1950 law that permitted Manor to confirm that a man or woman was not an absentee if that person left his place of residence ‘ for fear that the enemies of Israel might cause him harm or otherwise than by reason or for fear of military operations , .
6 On Dec. 14 Compaoré announced that a national reconciliation forum to consider democracy , human rights and development would be convened forthwith .
7 On Feb. 17 the RAF admitted that a 1,000-lb laser-guided bomb had missed its target during an attack on a bridge at Fallouja , but claimed that the incident had occurred on Feb. 13 .
8 Similarly , the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany argued that a member state might legitimately adopt appropriate criteria with regard to the grant of flag rights in order to safeguard the objectives of the Community system of fishing quotas ; it considered that , if necessary , the criteria adopted to that end might be contrary to the E.E.C .
9 Taylor found that a kangaroo hops at the same frequency at which gazelles of equal weight run or , for that matter , at which humans of equal weight bound on a pogo stick .
10 G. Lightheart reported that a television set had been given to the youth club .
11 G. Lightheart reported that a television set had been given to the youth club .
12 Najibullah proposed that a referendum be held in both government and mujaheddin-controlled areas to determine whether a ceasefire should be implemented .
13 And Williamson emphasises that a BSD/AT&T Unix license is required , and that MacMach , containing BSD 4.3 source code , is not a public-domain product .
14 But Lang insists that a final blueprint has yet to be prepared .
15 Dillon and Balcombe LJJ agreed that a preferable approach would be to deny a duty of care in certain cases of joint illegal enterprises .
16 President Mikhail Gorbachev announced that a draft union treaty would be forwarded to republican governments .
17 Gorbachev revealed that a law on establishing new political parties was currently being drafted .
18 EPRDF leader Meles Zenawi announced that a transitional government would be formed in consultation with other groups , pending elections .
19 Mandela announced that a series of bilateral discussions with the government , held in parallel with the multiparty CODESA talks , had been suspended indefinitely .
20 On Oct. 2 Radio France Internationale reported that a further 20 Nahda sympathisers had been arrested , and quantities of weapons and explosive seized , following the capture by police in September of Naceur Dhifallah , who had been sentenced in absentia during the mass trials .
21 On Nov. 15 Radio Mogadishu reported that a large crowd of pro-Aydid demonstrators had marched on the UN office to denounce " foreign interference " .
22 At a press conference he gave after the collapse of the coup ( on Aug. 21 ) Gorbachev recounted that a delegation , consisting of Boldin , Gen. Plekhanov , Shenin and Gen. Varennikov , had visited him at his holiday dacha in the Crimea on Aug. 18 and placed him under house arrest because he had refused to endorse a state of emergency .
23 There was fierce fighting in the city involving tanks , artillery and aircraft on April 26 , but the next day Radio Pakistan reported that a complete ceasefire had come into effect in the city .
24 It was another seventy years before it arrived in Sussex , then more by accident than design , at least in human terms ; Bede recounted that a Scottish monk , Dicul , had set up a small monastery with five or six brothers at Bosham in the 660s but none of the natives were willing to follow their way of life or listen to their teaching .
25 as if its race/record plans were n't enough , ARI says that a modified version of the aircraft , with a single engine and two-seat cockpit , may be marketed as a homebuilt kit .
26 At that moment the men detailed as River Watchers radioed that a fast-moving vessel was coming downstream , and the Safety Officer , not at all sure of the newcomer 's identity or intentions , fired an illuminating parachute flare over the nearly complete bridge to warn of the obstruction across its bows .
27 Radical pioneers of birth control in the 1820s like Richard Carlile believed that a diminished workforce , by reducing competition , would benefit wages , but such arguments often received short shrift .
28 Hegel believed that a substance was exhausted by the sum of its predicates , which is another way of saying that he identified the categories of the German language with those of abstract thought , and those of abstract thought , in turn with those of Mind or Geist .
29 Strong observational backing from scientists at the University of Arizona shows that a wave of gravitational energy sweeps through the gas clouds in the galaxy , with a mass at least one-thousand times that of our Sun .
30 League official David Howes confirmed that a sample had proved positive but , in line with normal procedure , neither the name of the player nor his club will be released unless he is found guilty of taking a prohibited substance , writes John Whalley .
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