Example sentences of "[vb past] in [adj] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the NUR still has some members among drivers , it agreed in 1983 that it would stop recruiting them . |
| 2 | Former President Reagan announced in 1983 that it was United States ' policy to accept the normative provisions of the Convention as reflecting customary international law . |
| 3 | The record for ambition to be speedy seems to be held by the Selangor State government in Malaysia , which announced in 1988 that it was now ‘ possible for applications to be approved in one day ’ . |
| 4 | For , even if they knew in general that it was unlikely to be the case , they could not afford to take chances . |
| 5 | A former Russian ambassador in London complained in 1803 that it had " more people than the offices of all the secretaries of state in Europe combined " . |
| 6 | Hay & Maddock note that in the United Kingdom there is no statutory obligation to notify theses to any central body , and Urquhart said in 1971 that it was often more difficult to obtain sight of a British doctoral thesis than it would be to obtain copies of theses emanating from European and North American Universities . |
| 7 | Mr Ridley said in 1987 that it could not lend to those who seemed unlikely to be able to service their debts — He went too far : technically , it could . |