Example sentences of "[noun prp] that a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the government negotiator Fanus Schoeman insists that the ANC has agreed to share power because a government of national unity is power-sharing , the ANC leader Nelson Mandela said on Saturday that an interim government of national unity was not power-sharing and that the body would include all parties who have won a certain proportion of seats in a constituent assembly . |
| 2 | Johnson arrived in Winnipeg for the Canadian championships , but his advisers notified organisers late on Friday that a week-old hamstring injury had not healed sufficiently to enable him to race in Saturday 's 60 metres . |
| 3 | The UN Security Council said late on Friday that an Israeli decision on 1 February that 101 of the deportees could return immediately and the remainder before the end of the year had been a step in the right direction . |
| 4 | Phyllis Bowman , national director of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child , told its annual conference at Keele that a dual attack on abortion and embryo experimentation will be launched in the autumn when the Government announces its Bill on embryo research . |
| 5 | Both Vietnamese and Chinese diplomats confirmed in mid-September that a secret summit meeting had taken place on Sept. 3-4 . |
| 6 | Aer Lingus , the Irish Republic 's national airline , confirmed that it was facing two charges in the United States that a subsidiary company illegally supplied aircraft parts to Iran . |
| 7 | For the Downland , sheep remained dominant ; it was in the coastal plain and Weald that a new impetus was given . |
| 8 | Following the visit , Sean Caughey , secretary of the NICCL , issued a statement which said that his council had told Ennals that an impartial inquiry by an independent body in Britain could do much to redress the grievances of the minority . |
| 9 | The districts ' association will tell Mr Lang that a single council would be too big and remote . |
| 10 | This study , carried out in an Italian series of patients accurately selected for the absence of other known aetiologic factors , and the presence of well established serum markers of autoimmunity , confirms previous observations made with a first generation ELISA that a wide overlap between the two above conditions does occur . |
| 11 | The theory of Greek drama is intended to provide the guidelines for such a theatre , for there is an idea prevalent in Germany that a special affinity links German thought of the period with classical Greek thought . |
| 12 | I , I ca n't remember where I got , I remember telling Beryl that a long |
| 13 | When Ceausescu in 1968 refused to become involved in the Warsaw Pact intervention against Czechoslovakia , and publicly condemned it , the Kremlin was furious , and briefly threatened Romania that a similar fate awaited them . |
| 14 | But I did also say to Mrs Earl that a new head will be appointed to take in posts from first of September and it might be better to discuss it with them after I discussed it with Miss White . |
| 15 | The Italian government proposed in late February that a special NATO summit on German unity be held . |
| 16 | He also reiterated his proposal made in early February that an international referendum on German unity be held . |
| 17 | The committee reported , and it was agreed on 24 May that a veterinary surgeon should be attached to each regiment of cavalry . |
| 18 | It has been shown conclusively in the south-east of England that a marked terrace of early Pleistocene age with beach deposits in some localities occurs at about 195 m ( 650 ft ) OD ( Wooldridge and Linton , 1955 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ The Time Travellers took one of them , ’ said Dierdriu , and it seemed to Fergus that an old , never-quite-healed agony was in her voice now . |
| 20 | In Rutland the jurors swore on 25 July that a great part of the county had been afforested by Henry II , though there is evidence that this had been done by Henry I. Subsequent returns for Leicestershire , Nottinghamshire and Somerset also demanded extensive disafforestments . |
| 21 | It was a habit he had that confirmed to Ruth that a romantic relationship with him could never be . |
| 22 | Lenin wishes to explain why it was that although the ‘ peaceful mask ’ of capitalism had been torn off in all the countries of Western Europe by the end of the nineteenth century , and popular discontent was widespread , it was only in Russia that a successful revolution occurred . |
| 23 | It was also reported in December that a 10 per cent wage reduction for public-sector employees , introduced in the 1989 budget and strongly opposed by the trade unions , would be extended for a further year . |
| 24 | ‘ I shall put Hasan in your trust , ’ he said , ‘ and I will inform Mr Shah that a first-class man is ‘ on the job ’ . |
| 25 | When , on his final journey to the police station , Raskolnikov kneels down in the middle of the Haymarket and kisses ‘ the earth , the filthy earth ’ ( zemlya ) as Sonya has bidden , it is entirely calculated by Dostoevsky that a tipsy artisan should laugh at the strange young man who ‘ is bowing down to the whole world and is kissing the capital city of St Petersburg and its soil ’ ( grunt , the German Grund ) . |
| 26 | But there was increased speculation on the Conservative Party conference fringe in Blackpool that an urgent decision on full membership of the European Monetary System ( EMS ) could get the Government off the economic and political hook of high interest rates , a falling pound , and massive Bank of England intervention in the markets . |
| 27 | This was very sensible advice since such was the popularity of Coronation Street that a great many people would have preferred to view it than to exercise any electoral function . |
| 28 | Following your letter of 3 October , I am pleased to be able to tell you that the Transportation Committee agreed on 2 November that a new independent study should be carried out to assess the costs and feasibility of a half-hourly passenger service on the South Suburban route . |
| 29 | UN information sources reported in November that a new Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab region and Europe ( CEDARE ) , proposed by UNDP 's regional Bureau for Arab States and Europe , was expected to be set up in time for the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development . |
| 30 | I had certainly learned from my talk with Sir Horace Evans of the nature and seriousness of Eden 's malady ; but the great doctor had seemed hopeful in November that a few weeks ’ rest , followed by the normal holiday at Christmas , would be sufficient . |