Example sentences of "[vb pp] that the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In July it was disclosed that the Soviet Union was owed the equivalent of 87,500 million ( 25 per cent in convertible currencies ) , but much of this was believed to be for arms sales to poorer countries who were unable to repay it . |
| 2 | To give an example of how inadequate official testing can be , at Swansea , where a hell of a lot of people use the sea for recreation , until 1989 it was not disclosed that the official testing point in the sewage outfall pipe was above the point where commercial waste was joining the system . |
| 3 | I refer in that context to the observations of Lord President Cooper in MacCormick v. The Lord Advocate in 1953 , when Lord Cooper , generally regarded as one of the foremost Scottish jurists of this century , said : ’ The principle of the unlimited sovereignty of Parliament is a distinctively English principle which has no counterpart in Scottish constitutional law Considering that the Union legislation extinguished the Parliaments of Scotland and England and replaced them by a new Parliament , I have difficulty in seeing why it should have been supposed that the new Parliament of Great Britain must inherit all the peculiar characteristics of the English Parliament but none of the Scottish Parliament , as if all that happened in 1707 was that Scottish representatives were admitted to the Parliament of England . |
| 4 | It is supposed that the major factor behind this trend is the financial pressure faced by local authorities , especially as a result of reductions in the amount of central government grant that they receive . |
| 5 | — Despite arguments to the contrary ( Duporte , 1965 ; Matsuda , 1970 ) , it may be supposed that the thoracic terga consisted primitively of three simple segmental plates ( the nota ) between which lay small intersegmental sclerites ( Snodgrass , 1927 ) . |
| 6 | Before Weismann , most evolutionary theorists , and in particular the Frenchman Jean Baptiste Lamarck ( 1744–1829 ) , had supposed that the main cause of evolutionary change was the ‘ inheritance of acquired characters ’ . |
| 7 | These actually come down to common sense , but it still needs to be stressed that the successful study of coinage , as any other historical discipline , should be based on as full a collection of the evidence as possible as well as an awareness that this evidence should never be taken at face value . |
| 8 | On April 22 a statement by the Presidential Council had stressed that the new constitution would ensure " the supremacy of Islamic sharia over all legislation " . |
| 9 | It must be stressed that the necessary level of fulfilment to encourage conformity is relative , not absolute . |
| 10 | It has also been stressed that the overall range of individual building types can be a useful indicator of the level of settlement complexity ; in particular , attention has been focused on the relative presence or absence of the larger , more obviously romanized , building complexes and their planned or ad hoc location within the layout . |
| 11 | Officials had stressed that the proposed flogging would be to humiliate Mr Brown , not draw blood . |
| 12 | Report after report issued under the aegis of British governments and parliaments of all flavours , as well as weighty learned institutions , have stressed that the balanced education of the future would put more emphasis on the numerate skills . |
| 13 | The Council has worked hard to secure agreement on the proposals and it must be stressed that the improved package offer presented recently to NALGO represents the best balance between the interests of staff involved and Council Tax payers . |
| 14 | In later years the events of 5 October were to be polished into simplified and incompatible propaganda versions ; it has to be stressed that the whole affair was a series of blunders and the violence resulted from a breakdown of control by the leaders of the march and the controllers of the police , and not from any pre-existing plan . |
| 15 | At the same time it must be stressed that the ecclesiastical character of ‘ ultramontanism ’ ( the dominant , Rome-centred , theory and practice of Catholicism in this period ) was not a mere post-Revolution reaction : it was the direct heir of medieval papalist and Counter-Reformation Catholicism . |
| 16 | It is stressed that the main concern should be the information needs of the personnel function , rather than concentrating too early upon computer solutions . |
| 17 | The reader is reminded that the foregoing hypothesis concerns only the origin of the Created God . |
| 18 | The Government must be reminded that the average age of the labour force in the coal mining industry is about 30 years . |
| 19 | English tourists might like to be reminded that the ghastly visitor centres , the scant toilet facilities and the gruesome catering in the West Highlands of Scotland are there to get you back for the fact you won . |
| 20 | By lunchtime it was expected that the sit-down run throughs would be complete and timed to run an optimum length of twenty-four minutes , thirty seconds . |
| 21 | In the South Wales region it is expected that the annual quantity required from this source will rise from about 2.8 mt to 3.6 mt over the 20 year period , despite the fact that as a proportion of overall consumption it will fall from 15% to 10% . |
| 22 | In the South Wales region it is expected that the annual quantity required from this source will rise from about 2.8 mt to 3.6 mt over the 20 year period , despite the fact that as a proportion of overall consumption it will fall from 15% to 10% . |
| 23 | It is expected that the new system could be in place in the year 1993–94 . |
| 24 | Foreign investment in 1989 rose by almost 76 per cent to 8,600 million ringgits , and it was expected that the upward trend would be maintained for 1990 . |
| 25 | It is expected that the appointed person will have an excellent record in applied scientific research coupled with a sound understanding of commercial contract research . |
| 26 | Secondly , the number of significant train accidents recorded in 1990 was the lowest on record and it is expected that the final figure for 1991 will show a further decline . |
| 27 | But I would have expected that the whole thing would have to be operated by , somebody who was qualified . |
| 28 | It was widely expected that the formal ban on direct trade with the Soviet Union would be lifted in 1990 leaving only mainland China , Albania , Cuba and North Korea on the prohibited list . |
| 29 | It was n't purely coincidental that she happened to be carrying the details of previous work experience , for she 'd expected that the secretarial agency might want to see them . |
| 30 | It must never be forgotten that the great majority of the English people had only a passing interest in the niceties of academic theology , and that outside the bishops ' palaces and the two universities such issues remained relatively unimportant . |