Example sentences of "[noun prp] that a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Both Vietnamese and Chinese diplomats confirmed in mid-September that a secret summit meeting had taken place on Sept. 3-4 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For the Downland , sheep remained dominant ; it was in the coastal plain and Weald that a new impetus was given . |
| 6 | The districts ' association will tell Mr Lang that a single council would be too big and remote . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The committee reported , and it was agreed on 24 May that a veterinary surgeon should be attached to each regiment of cavalry . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was a habit he had that confirmed to Ruth that a romantic relationship with him could never be . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I shall put Hasan in your trust , ’ he said , ‘ and I will inform Mr Shah that a first-class man is ‘ on the job ’ . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I reassured Mrs Jackson that a balanced diet would probably be all she 'd need . |
| 20 | Meanwhile the situation between the government , the union and the Shipowners ' Federation had proceeded almost to the point of agreement in principle on a National Maritime Board and a proposal from Havelock Wilson that a single source of supply of seamen should be under the joint control of the Federation and the union , though formal acceptance and drafting problems remained ; so did the Liverpool revolt . |
| 21 | In spite of these initial advantages , furnishing fabrics , as clothes , were badly in need of overall direction and it was also in Paris that a young woman who had no formal design training but had worked for the exclusive Colefax and Fowler , was hired . |
| 22 | Two months after the Groupe de la Cité and Fixot agreed to merge Laffont with Editions Fixot , rumour is rife in Paris that a fresh round of redundancies is imminent . |
| 23 | Steps to provide common rules for employee participation in the management of public companies have been more controversial , and it has been strongly argued in the UK that a voluntary approach , reflecting the differing traditions of the member states in questions of employer-employee relations , is to be preferred to compulsory representation of employees on company boards . |
| 24 | It is evident from the Life of Guthlac that a harmonious relationship prevailed for some time after Aethelbald became king between the Mercian king and Aelfwald , son of Ealdwulf , king of the East Angles , otherwise it would be difficult to explain the dedication of the Life of a Mercian saint to King Aelfwald . |
| 25 | The DUP 's first reaction to the murder was to suggest to the OUP that a joint candidate , acceptable to both parties , be found . |
| 26 | Power was indeed divided , in such a way as to place restraints upon popularly elected assemblies ; and it was the view of Hamilton that a representative democracy avoided the dangers clearly inherent in " simple democracy " : When the deliberative or judicial powers are vested wholly or partly in the collective body of the people , you must expect error , confusion and instability . |
| 27 | Mr Singh repeated a statement he made in parliament on Wednesday that a Pakistani failure to hand over the Memons would have serious implications . |
| 28 | It was outside rather than inside the Cortes that a conservative opposition built up against the liberals and by 1811 the unity of patriotic reformism was broken . |
| 29 | His life is changed when a London lawyer , Jaggers , tells Pip that a mysterious benefactor has provided money to make him a gentleman with ‘ great expectations ’ . |
| 30 | When Norman recruited Sir Ian McGregor , this marked the first time in Britain that a nationalised industry chief had been appointed through executive search . |