Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] that a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This directed that a number of Czechs and dissident Yugoslavs , who had infiltrated an area in Austria east of that covered by the Allied V Corps , should be treated as disarmed enemy troops and evacuated to British concentration camps in Italy . |
| 2 | A special analysis of this showed that a quarter of all people entering unemployment in May 1980 who had found a job within 10 months had taken one which they knew to be temporary . |
| 3 | This meant that a decompression stop was not required and that these parameters would be stored in the memory , to be compensated for on the next dive . |
| 4 | In practical terms this meant that a court should not lightly disregard foreign blocking statutes or ‘ defensive laws ’ ; that perceived national interests should be carefully defined and weighed , so that some delay might well be accepted in the interest of promoting respect for the sovereign equality of States under international law ; and that evidence of the willingness of the foreign state to assist United States courts ( e.g. by a civil law country enacting legislation to enable cross-examination to take place ) should be taken into account . |
| 5 | In practice , this meant that a polytechnic or college of higher education could obtain a 100 per cent grant for that proportion of the establishment 's work which fell within the definition of ‘ poolable advanced further education ’ as agreed by local authorities . |
| 6 | This meant that a trust investing solely in , say , gilts or bonds could qualify for the £1,500 limit , which was not the original intention . |
| 7 | This meant that a man 's estate was increasingly likely to be divided between his wife ( if she survived him ) and his children , although not necessarily in equal measure . |
| 8 | Prior to that time retirement ages for men and women were the same , and this meant that a man retiring at 65 often had to support himself and his wife on a single-rate pension , because on average women were younger than their husbands . |
| 9 | This meant that a lot of the interchange would be verbal with no record or a remembered , inaccurate record . |
| 10 | This meant that a condition for the exercise of the power was that the land was of the appropriate type . |
| 11 | Some felt that a recruitment campaign for volunteers was overdue . |
| 12 | As the bulk of the material was culled from just three radio sessions , this proved that an album of quality could still be made for less than the cost of recording your average chart single . |
| 13 | That meant that a proposal , which would have prevented the collision , for four new platforms at Newton had been scrapped . |
| 14 | That meant that a man living with a woman could claim money for her and her children whether they were married or not . |
| 15 | Both agreed that a draft outlining the main areas of agreement and disagreement should be drawn up by the end of January 1992 and the US Representative for Trade Negotiations Carla Hills cautioned that the USA had " no intention of substituting speed for substance " . |
| 16 | We both believed that a marriage certificate was n't that important . |
| 17 | Both the Gibson company and Les Paul seem to have discovered maple to be an excellent-sounding wood for solid guitars , and they both knew that a mahogany body with a thick maple top would be lighter and would sound just as good , if not better . |
| 18 | They both knew that a loss had been suffered which had to be apportioned between them , but there is nothing to show that they had any idea , let alone conflicting ideas , of what the correct apportionment should be . |
| 19 | However , both denied that a message from Saddam had been delivered . |