Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] that a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the spring of 1932 the British announced that a flotilla of three destroyers was to grace the city with a visit . |
| 2 | This directed that a number of Czechs and dissident Yugoslavs , who had infiltrated an area in Austria east of that covered by the Allied V Corps , should be treated as disarmed enemy troops and evacuated to British concentration camps in Italy . |
| 3 | Condition 2 stated that a charge of £5 plus V.A.T. per transparency was payable for each day they were late being returned . |
| 4 | A special analysis of this showed that a quarter of all people entering unemployment in May 1980 who had found a job within 10 months had taken one which they knew to be temporary . |
| 5 | This meant that a decompression stop was not required and that these parameters would be stored in the memory , to be compensated for on the next dive . |
| 6 | In practical terms this meant that a court should not lightly disregard foreign blocking statutes or ‘ defensive laws ’ ; that perceived national interests should be carefully defined and weighed , so that some delay might well be accepted in the interest of promoting respect for the sovereign equality of States under international law ; and that evidence of the willingness of the foreign state to assist United States courts ( e.g. by a civil law country enacting legislation to enable cross-examination to take place ) should be taken into account . |
| 7 | In practice , this meant that a polytechnic or college of higher education could obtain a 100 per cent grant for that proportion of the establishment 's work which fell within the definition of ‘ poolable advanced further education ’ as agreed by local authorities . |
| 8 | This meant that a trust investing solely in , say , gilts or bonds could qualify for the £1,500 limit , which was not the original intention . |
| 9 | This meant that a man 's estate was increasingly likely to be divided between his wife ( if she survived him ) and his children , although not necessarily in equal measure . |
| 10 | Prior to that time retirement ages for men and women were the same , and this meant that a man retiring at 65 often had to support himself and his wife on a single-rate pension , because on average women were younger than their husbands . |
| 11 | This meant that a lot of the interchange would be verbal with no record or a remembered , inaccurate record . |
| 12 | This meant that a condition for the exercise of the power was that the land was of the appropriate type . |
| 13 | Some felt that a recruitment campaign for volunteers was overdue . |
| 14 | Clearly , a sum paid to the settlor to discharge a liability of his to the bank would come within this section ( see IRC v Bates ( 1966 ) 44 TC 225 : the case of Potts ' Executors v IRC [ 1951 ] AC 43 held that a payment to a third party was not a sum paid to the settlor but that case is no longer good law in view of TA 1988 , s677(10) which was inserted into the former TA 1970 , s451 ( now TA 1988 , s677 ) by s42(7) of FA 1981 ) . |
| 15 | But a commission appointed in June 1246 found that a number of foresters of fee had in fact disposed of all or part of the lands they held by service of keeping their forest bailiwicks . |
| 16 | A report in the Guardian of Nov. 7 said that a ban by NATO countries ( which dominated COCOM ) on exporting " secret " high technology to communist countries had cost the UK telecommunications company British Telecom a £4,200,000 ( US$7,100,000 ) order to supply optical fibre equipment for a new telephone link in Vietnam . |
| 17 | A leader comment in the Observer newspaper of 1934 acknowledged that a revolution in travel was underway : |
| 18 | A Bundesbank report leaked on March 31 recommended that a conversion rate of two East German marks for one West German deutschmark be used when German monetary union was introduced , although the report advocated a 1:1 conversion rate for East German savings up to 2,000 Marks . |
| 19 | Nobody wanted to push the struggle any further ; nobody in the 1740s imagined that a fight to the death was at hand . |
| 20 | A Radio France Internationale report on Dec. 31 said that a total of 26 plotters had been executed by firing squad . |
| 21 | Mrs. Wicksted reported that a member of the Bingo Club had spoken to her re the condition of the road outside the hall . |
| 22 | Mrs. Wicksted reported that a member of the Bingo Club had spoken to her re the condition of the road outside the hall . |
| 23 | Rotorway International reported that a number of aircraft had achieved , without sprocket bolt failure , many times the number of hours at which the bolt on this aircraft failed , but that several failures of these bolts had occurred at a life similar to that at which the failure occurred . |
| 24 | Iraq 's expansion of the port of Umm Qasr and the development of the Rumalla oil field during the 1970s meant that a settlement of the dispute became a prime Iraqi objective . |
| 25 | The reasons for this phenomenon are varied : the tightening bonds of serfdom and the greater degree of social regimentation introduced by Peter the Great meant that a number of previously innocent practices ( tree-felling , salt-gathering , trespass , begging , vagrancy , and so on ) were criminalized and punished with hard labour and exile ; popular protest against the proliferating powers of the state in the form of minor revolts , mass insurgencies ( for example , Bulavin , Pugachev ) , large-scale banditry and escalating rates of petty crime were similarly dealt with ; the abolition of capital punishment for criminal offences in 1753 led to its replacement with ‘ civil execution ’ ( public flogging and mutilation followed by perpetual katorga ) ; and laws passed in 1766 and 1769 changed the usual place of penal servitude from Rogervik and other locations in European Russia to the silver mines and factories around Nerchinsk . |
| 26 | Another case in 1883 revealed that a marque of Veuve Clicquot-Ponsardine was being sold , but with the insertion of an extra ‘ o ’ in the label , reading ‘ Veuve Cliocquot-Ponsardin' and going for a ridiculously low price . |
| 27 | However , an AFP report of April 3 said that a letter alleging murder , rape and the destruction of villages had been secretly slipped to one of the diplomats accompanying Eliasson . |
| 28 | Charles Handy suggested that a definition of a manager or a manager 's role is likely to be so broad as to be fairly meaningless . |
| 29 | That meant that a proposal , which would have prevented the collision , for four new platforms at Newton had been scrapped . |
| 30 | That meant that a man living with a woman could claim money for her and her children whether they were married or not . |