Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It only afterwards transpired that the seedy man was not a reporter but his tutor , with whom he was not otherwise acquainted . ’ |
| 2 | It transpired that the left side of the nose splitter has been damaged , perhaps when Baldi had clipped Brundle 's Jaguar in one of his passing attempts , perhaps as a result of ‘ trapped ’ vibration from a high-speed engine misfire . |
| 3 | So it transpired that the elusive Zephro Carnelian was a trusted roving agent for the Ordo Hydra . |
| 4 | It transpired that the previous day he had been in Liverpool and given an interview to the Daily Telegraph which had been interpreted to mean that we were about to call in the troops . |
| 5 | It transpired that the previous evening students from the Asrama Merdeka led by Wikana along with student followers of Sjahrir presented an ultimatum to Sukarno : you must proclaim independence immediately . |
| 6 | It transpired that the whole street had been summoned to hear the declaration . |
| 7 | It proposed that the minimum threshold for representation in the assembly should be " relatively low " to allow for the widest possible representation , and that decisions within the assembly should be by a two-thirds majority . |
| 8 | For modified glasses , though , Zachariasen proposed that the extra oxygen brought in by soda and lime would promote singly coordinated sites or ‘ non-bridging oxygens ’ . |
| 9 | Kang proposed that the two states should acquire separate UN membership as a temporary measure until such time as Korean reunification was achieved . |
| 10 | Geisler and the other two defending lawyers proposed that the two counts be severed and that the people 's case consist of a reading of the 32-page grand jury transcript . |
| 11 | The sub-committee [ see paragraph 1 ] for a considerable time proposed that the general offence of theft should be made to cover the present offence of obtaining by false pretences under [ the Larceny Act 1916 , section ] 32(1) . |
| 12 | She proposed that the new king and his brother , who was on a brief visit to Ludlow , should be escorted to London by a substantial body of troops . ’ |
| 13 | Reminding the Assembly that the Soviet Union had stopped production of chemical weapons , Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze on Sept. 26 proposed that the Soviet Union and the United States bilaterally reduce or destroy their chemical weapons ; and that they renounce use of such weapons , under any circumstances , as the first step towards their global elimination . |
| 14 | The draft proposed that the chief executive ( a position comparable with that of the current Governor ) be elected for a five-year term by an 800-member " broadly represented " election committee . |
| 15 | At the meeting Japan proposed that the annual PMC be made a regular forum for dialogue focused on regional security issues . |
| 16 | Announcing the establishment of new climate monitoring centre , Thatcher offered support for the establishment of a convention on climatic change by the time of the UN 's 1992 world conference on the environment and development ( a proposal supported in Resolutions 44/229 and 44/207 ) ; and proposed that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change preparing a report for that conference be extended . |
| 17 | The agreement , which was drawn up in fairly obscure terms , proposed that the now-sovereign states of the former USSR should return to each other works of art on the basis of whose territory they were created on , the nationality of the artist , or just on the principle of ‘ I want it , it 's mine ’ . |
| 18 | He now proposed that the fundamental gut decision of whether the paper should be tabloid or broadsheet be tested by market research , until he was finally talked out of it by another newly recruited professional — Clive Thornton , lately of Mirror Group Newspapers . |
| 19 | In a thoughtful exploration of the relevance of Caplan 's crisis theory ( 1961 ) for social work practice , O'Hagan proposed that the chaotic situations which frequently present themselves in a social service department require a different understanding of the nature of a crisis and the part played by a social worker in resolving it . |
| 20 | Although they proposed that the coercive power of bishops and ecclesiastics should be abolished , the use of the Book of Common Prayer would be tolerated . |
| 21 | Mr Rutskoy proposed that the 14th army of the former Soviet forces , now under Russian control , should create a buffer zone between the Moldovan security forces and the Russian rebels . |
| 22 | The document proposed that the basic unit of the movement should be the local cumann ( branch ) , with factory-based cumainn wherever possible . |
| 23 | The theory developed to account for these findings , Lapse Theory , proposed that the special effect of sleep loss was to increase the number of lapses in attention , possibly through " microsleeps " . |
| 24 | Hoyle proposed that the magnetic force lines , twisted and contorted , interacted with the Sun 's surface in such a way as to produce regions where the nuclear reactions that power the Sun were subdued . |
| 25 | Junod , it will be recalled , proposed that the maternal uncle 's indulgent behaviour was to be explained by an earlier matrilineal ( or ‘ matri-archal ’ ) phase which had left its mark on the now formally patriarchal BaThonga . |
| 26 | Glaxo reversed most of yesterday 's gains with a 19p fall to 666p after rumours surfaced that the pharmaceutical giant was considering a big joint-venture with the US group , Warner-Lambert . |
| 27 | The chairman , Sir Ernest Harrison , promised that the first half loss would be reversed in the second half , but pressure on margins is not going to go away . |
| 28 | Benn promised that the first thing he would do when returning home would be to go straight to see Michael Watson . |
| 29 | Napoleon Duarte , elected Mayor of San Salvador in 1969 , began the scheme and promised that the new buildings would transform working conditions and pull the market women out of their poverty . |
| 30 | Second , I promised that the accurate figures will be published . |