Example sentences of "[vb past] that such an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shevardnadze , however , maintained that such an option was " impossible " , although the issue required " further discussion and clarification " . |
| 2 | She had a violent impulse to summon Murphy and go at once to Trelorne and find Michael Swinton , and so strong was this inclination and the need to explain to him that she was personally so very Lyddy before she realized that such an action was only a perfect sequel in childish impetuosity to her former one of agreeing to be painted in the first place . |
| 3 | I then had dinner with Trevor Clay , who had taken over at the Royal College of Nursing , and he also agreed that such an offer would be enough to bring them back into negotiation . |
| 4 | In 1985 , the Prior committee on prison disciplinary systems recommended that such an offence should be created . |
| 5 | The pope thereupon ruled that such an oath might not be taken by true Catholics ; King James replied to the Pope in an anonymous book which , in turn , was answered by Cardinal Bellarmine . |
| 6 | Simmons had refused to lodge an appeal against his sentence and the Supreme Court ruled that such an appeal could not be made on his behalf by a fellow inmate of death row . |
| 7 | However , middle class observers were sensitive to the possibility that the working class husband might not provide ; after all , the bourgeois family model was favoured because of the work incentive it provided for working class men , which presupposed that such an incentive was necessary . |
| 8 | Even with my limited knowledge of the cost of advertising in a posh Sunday colour magazine , I realised that such an exercise would mop up at least twice Supersight 's annual spend on promotion . |
| 9 | On the one hand he saw his own suspicions mirrored in the Bishop 's eyes , on the other Wishart realised that such an interview might alienate the French and cause more trouble than it was worth . |
| 10 | Later economists argued that such an economy would also be efficient in a precise sense . |
| 11 | He believed that such an event would lead to a loss of belief in the will of the USA to maintain her commitments throughout the area . |
| 12 | Its supporters claimed that such an Assembly , composed of members from all walks of life , would and act as a " complementary institution " which would advise Parliament . |
| 13 | Sloane himself reckoned that such an opportunity to travel and at the same time pursue the practice of physic was too good an opportunity to miss . |
| 14 | I pressed that such an undertaking would be meaningless if they were free to take the Conservative whip in common with faulknerite unionists . |
| 15 | THE United States said yesterday that it was studying the possibility of parachuting relief supplies to civilians in Bosnia , but it emphasised that such an operation might not be successful in the rugged country . |
| 16 | Meanwhile the United States said it was studying the possibility of parachuting relief supplies to civilians in Bosnia , though it emphasised that such an operation might not be successful in the rugged country . |
| 17 | She stressed that such an investigation would not hinder progress or hold up commerical companies , but would further public acceptance of the technology and so foster developments . |
| 18 | Entomologists at the time said that such an idea was ridiculous . |
| 19 | A Soviet Foreign Ministry statement of Nov. 30 said that such an action would set a " dangerous international precedent " . |
| 20 | They ‘ unreservedly ’ accepted that such an allegation was ‘ wholly untrue ’ . |
| 21 | The researchers concluded that such an approach might be extended to develop ways of rewarding people fairly for the educational tasks they undertake . |
| 22 | It could be argued that ‘ skunk works ’ might be useful in Quadrant 2 , but a special interest session of the Industrial Research Institute 1986 Fall Meeting concluded that such an approach is less likely to succeed when , for example , the project requires too advanced a technology and/or the transition to manufacturing is complex and requires very large scale-up . |
| 23 | Lynden-Bell and Rees suggested that such an object would be marked by a compact nonthermal radio source . |