Example sentences of "[vb past] that a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that a large quantity of spent shells from a plane ahead went through the nose and had struck Ed . |
| 2 | Havel also proposed that a new constitution should first be initialled by the republican parliaments , and called on the federal government quickly to draft its proposals on executive authority [ see above ] . |
| 3 | He first addressed himself to Parliament , to which he proposed that a Presbyterian form of government should be established for a limited period , during which the King and his household would be allowed to use the Book of Common Prayer . |
| 4 | The report proposed that a progressive element could be applied to contributions . |
| 5 | They proposed that a preparatory committee should start work in July , to prepare for " a summit meeting of the CSCE participating states before the end of this year " in Paris to " mark the starting point for a more advanced stage of the Helsinki process " [ see p. 37386 ] . |
| 6 | The Nov. 4 referendum proposed that a simple majority should in future be sufficient to pass constitutional amendments . |
| 7 | In Britain , Clifford and Frosh ( 1982 ) proposed that a Lacanian-informed approach to the psychology of interpersonal relationships , development , and irrationality , would avoid the traditional discipline 's obsession with single , uncontradictory meanings . |
| 8 | He proposed that a departmental committee should be set up to advise the Commissioner of Works and , looking at the War Department first , should draw up a specification of their requirements , and a competition should be organized ‘ open to the architects of every country , in order that no means may be neglected of obtaining the best designs ’ . |
| 9 | H. J. Eysenck proposed that a fundamental difference between introverts and extraverts is their chronic levels of arousal , introverts having generally higher levels of arousal than extraverts . |
| 10 | The women proposed that a follow-up seminar be organised in 1993 to discuss a five-year plan of programmes and policies for women communicators . |
| 11 | The Banjul agreement in December proposed that a national conference be convened within 60 days to discuss the establishment of an interim administration . |
| 12 | To account for their complex set of results they proposed that a concurrent task may have either general effects , that is , influence performance by both hemispheres , and/or specific effects which are restricted to one particular hemisphere . |
| 13 | This budget was withdrawn by Waigel on Aug. 9 , however , in response to the pace of unification negotiations , and he promised that a new budget would be presented to the Bundestag soon after unification had occurred . |
| 14 | Opening the debate on a motion condemning the government 's handling of science and science education , Straw promised that a Labour government would insulate the science budget from inflationary pressures . |
| 15 | Palmerston promised that a Select Committee would be appointed next session to reconsider the whole problem of the concentration of government departments . |
| 16 | More strikingly , it demonstrated that a toroidal discharge in a toroidal magnetic field established its own stable configuration . |
| 17 | This led him towards ideas of conservation of energy , and of a unified field ; he believed that light and magnetism must act upon one another , and to the astonishment of contemporaries he indeed demonstrated that a magnetic field will rotate the plane of polarization of polarized light . |
| 18 | Indeed , in one of the Criterion Commentaries he maintained that a rural existence was ‘ the best life ’ for most people — a view which ‘ most people ’ have not shared . |
| 19 | Havers strenuously denied that there had been a cover-up , and Mr Douglas Hurd , then a Minister of State at the Foreign Office , maintained that a full inquiry into the affair had revealed nothing to suggest that national security had been prejudiced . |
| 20 | They moved that a new scheme should be prepared , in conformity with catholic social teaching . |
| 21 | And , although the Supreme Court upheld testing of customs agents , a few members of the bench doubted that a drug-imbibing agent would be deterred by a test if he was not already fearful , as one put it , that he ‘ may be shot dead in unequal combat with unimpaired smugglers . ’ |
| 22 | Fortunately , in my recent meeting with Peter Gordon , in discussing the criticism which the report had drawn from certain sectors , he mentioned that a second report is being prepared for Scotland which is to be launched next June . |
| 23 | A few months ago we mentioned that a computerised welfare benefits package was available from a medical school research and development team in London . |
| 24 | He mentioned that a special piece of equipment was a split-charge alternator of 133/65 amp output . |
| 25 | It was another seventy years before it arrived in Sussex , then more by accident than design , at least in human terms ; Bede recounted that a Scottish monk , Dicul , had set up a small monastery with five or six brothers at Bosham in the 660s but none of the natives were willing to follow their way of life or listen to their teaching . |
| 26 | Some authors supported combined use of both agents with good results , while others found that a sclerosing agent does not improve haemostatic rates . |
| 27 | As Stephen Leacock and I walked down the street after that luncheon we found that a small crowd of students was gathered around the white statue . |
| 28 | Similarly , Pound and her colleagues ( 1985 ) found that a long history of depressive illness in a mother , or a combination of depression and personality problems , was associated with problems ( especially of sleeping ) in her children . |
| 29 | He found that a poor Tambov peasant who harvested 35 pudy of grain from one desiatin of land had to pay 15 pudy of it for the hire of a plough , 7 pudy for having the grain carted off in a richer man 's wagon , and to top it all 7 pudy in tax . |
| 30 | Even so , I found that a curious structure remained at the service 's centre . |