Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] that a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This structure survived a further three decades , until 1961 , when it was subsumed by the General Practice Division ; and although the Building Surveyors Panel of the General Practice Committee gave evidence of their dissatisfaction with the syllabus structure to the Eve Committee in 1967 , it was not until 1973 that a Building Surveying Division re-emerged as an identifiable entity . |
| 32 | However , it was not until 1966 that a committee under Lord Fulton was appointed to ‘ examine the structure , recruitment and management , including training , of the Home Civil Service ’ . |
| 33 | It was the first ‘ invisible radiation ’ to be discovered , when William Herschel found in 1800 that a thermometer would register heat beyond the red end of the Sun 's visible spectrum . |
| 34 | Rowntree had estimated in 1900 that a family of two adults and three children required a minimum income of 20s. 6d. per week . |
| 35 | But it was only with the election of the PSOE in 1982 that a programme for braking the rise in RENFE 's deficits was seriously implemented . |
| 36 | Indeed , it was not until 1956 that a Brazilian made any impact when Nano da Silva Ramos finished 5th in his Gordini in the Monaco Grand Prix . |
| 37 | The first Rottweiler in Norway arrived in the year 1910 , but it was not until 1919 that a bitch called Florrie , who had been originally imported from Sweden , was registered . |
| 38 | Frazer et al showed in 1959 that a pepsin trypsin digest of the wheat prolamin gliadin ( PT-gliadin ) , was deletrious when ingested orally by coeliac patients . |
| 39 | It would have been tempting for an adviser to have thought in 1968 that a solus agreement involving the exclusive purchase of petrol was of sufficiently established commercial importance to fall within that class of cases to which Lord Wilberforce said the restraint of trade doctrine would not apply . |
| 40 | Set in the charged atmosphere of a thirties New York summer , Rocket to the Moon is a tale of romance , stifled sexuality and thwarted ambition … at a time when it was considered next to impossible that a rocket could reach the moon . |
| 41 | it may sound impossible to many that a sergeant or a young junior officer coming straight from the Empire Training Scheme either in Canada or Rhodesia , was a far better prospect than shall we say a group captain or a wing commander , or even a squadron leader , who had spent the entire war in the training machine . |
| 42 | But that rotten yellow-gutted two-timing little toad " — I let him go on like that a while , to get it out of his system . |
| 43 | The tradition referred to earlier that a surgeon had been required for the Empress , maintains that Garvine had to diagnose her illness without being allowed into her presence and that he treated her successfully . |
| 44 | Uses and trusts the Common Law will not recognize ; wills of land , it has decided , are void ( unless established by local custom — it was not till 1540 that a statute was passed giving power to leave land by will ) . |
| 45 | It was not till 1906 that a post as instructor at the École de Guerre gave him an opportunity . |
| 46 | If they knew for certain that a vote of censure could not result in a general election , but would simply bring about a reshuffle in the Government , their conduct would become more robust . |
| 47 | No less than three supporters , all before opening time , have told me that they know for certain that a League chairman has been watching me in recent weeks . |
| 48 | Everybody in ‘ our town ’ feels indignant about the insult to the respected old gentleman , and a proposal gets off the ground to give a subscription dinner in his honour ; but finally ‘ we ’ think better of it , ‘ perhaps realizing at last that a man had , after all , been pulled by the nose , so there really was n't any cause for a celebration . ’ |
| 49 | The active involvement between Japan and the Western world which began in the 1850s has been so important for both that a consideration of Japan 's place in the world order is an appropriate starting point for any discussion of her recent history . |
| 50 | Although their capital appreciation might eventually benefit pensioners , it was felt inappropriate by some that a fund should invest in ‘ unproductive ’ assets . |
| 51 | It is often complained of by many that a meeting will take five minutes to agree the expenditure of ten million and two hours to debate a minor item worth only a few thousand . |