Example sentences of "that a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the 14th round of the US-Soviet talks on Dec. 15 , the US ambassador to the UNCD , Max Friedersdorf , commented that the two countries ' positions were " fairly close together on most issues ' and that there was a good chance that a chemical weapons treaty would be signed within two years . |
| 2 | This was required by the SIB in order to protect customers of smaller firms , which might need to rely on the larger firm with or through whom they are dealing ( although it is doubtful that a small securities firm should trade in complicated derivatives at all if it does not have the necessary expertise ) . |
| 3 | I fear that a strategic exceptions policy can be all too easily a euphemism for giving big companies more favourable treatment than small companies . |
| 4 | The educational and cultural gap between the élite évolués and the rest of the African population was noted by Almond and Coleman as a ‘ marked discontinuity in communication ’ between the two ; at the same time , between this African élite and European Frenchmen , ‘ one could argue that a unified communications process tended to develop ’ . |
| 5 | Cities spend an enormous amount of money on building stadiums and bidding competitively for sports franchises ; they predicate their enthusiasm on the assumption ( for which there is no empirical basis ) that a professional sports team enhances a local economy . |
| 6 | These countries are recognising that a decent communications structure is a prerequisite for economic survival , and the western telecommunications companies , seeing Eastern Europe as a profitable market , are only too willing to lend a hand . |
| 7 | Police Gen. Sawaeng Thirasawat , the police director-general , announced on May 16 , 1990 , that a 100-member police commando unit would be deployed in the south-eastern province of Chon Buri following a wave of violent crimes linked to business disputes . |
| 8 | Earlier , on April 17 , Pérez de Cuéllar had said in Paris that any plan to deploy foreign troops in northern Iraq required Iraqi permission and that a UN-backed police force would need " the agreement of the Security Council " . |
| 9 | YOUR ARTICLE ENTITLED ‘ The Oyston Tapes ( May issue ) attempts to show that a dirty tricks campaign was mounted against Owen Oyston , the socialist entrepreneur , by politicians in Lancashire and a local businessman , and that the Sunday Times was a party to this . |
| 10 | Athelstan noticed that a burly serjeant-at-arms hat just stepped into the room . |
| 11 | It is envisaged that a joint EC-US subsidy agreement would open the way for freer trade in steel across the Atlantic . |
| 12 | Note that Business Studies , Computer Science , Physics or Statistics can be studied for one or two years in the curriculum for BSc Mathematics , so that a joint honours course is not the only way to acquire some knowledge of these subjects . |
| 13 | An Interim report ( Cmd. 6759 , March 1946 ) emphasized that a New Towns programme should be a matter for central Government : the location of a New Town should be a Government decision and that a new agency should be set up to plan and develop the town ( it was not to be a matter for local authorities ) . |
| 14 | It was that a Special Forces Depot be formed at Kabrit , to be commanded by a lieutenant-colonel . |
| 15 | So much of the station was given over to the passengers , who by 1863 numbered 2.1 million annually , that a special parcels depot was built next to the station proper in 1889 . |
| 16 | Shildon said that a superior drinks carton had been invented and the MacQuillans faced the choice of buying the invention or seeing a competitor develop it and steal their market . |
| 17 | On March 13 it was announced that a human rights unit had been created within in the Foreign , Justice and Interior Ministries " with responsibility for following up international organizations ' activities in the sphere of human rights " ; this followed a report released by Amnesty International on March 3 , which had alleged the routine use of torture . |
| 18 | Similarly , the idea that a human rights concert should be held in the very stadium in Santiago where Allende 's officers rounded up thousands of Chileans in 1973 , prior to committing gross violations , stretches the powers of credulity . |
| 19 | ‘ And here I was , thinking that a few hours leave was on the cards . ’ |
| 20 | Translating them into actual events , there could be few people who had anticipated that a British Airways Boeing 747 would suffer loss of power on all four engines for sixteen minutes when it flew into a volcanic ash cloud at 37 000 feet . |
| 21 | Regulation 3B(1) requires that a wasted costs order ‘ may provide for the whole or any part of the wasted costs to be disallowed or ordered to be paid and the court shall specify the amount of such costs . ’ |
| 22 | There the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement believes that a 600 rads surface dose would kill 90 per cent of the population , rather than 50 per cent . |
| 23 | You do not need to invest in technology to comply with the quality standards , but they concede that a computerised accounts system is really the only cost-effective way to deal with the financial management requirements . |
| 24 | Mr Bruton said some would suggest that a United Nations presence could solve that problem . |
| 25 | He also confirms that a heavy goods vehicle has just been loaded and is about to leave for another customer in Tamworth . |
| 26 | At the conclusion of which we were both of the view that an armed police operation was necessary and he therefore authorised armed police officers to be used and I was to command the incident . |
| 27 | Differences were also reported centring on Soviet and Chinese fears that an immediate arms reduction plan for the Middle East would imply a freeze of Israeli weapons superiority over Arab states . |
| 28 | I agree that an Irish singles champion should not necessarily be an automatic choice for the Irish international team . |
| 29 | It is inevitable , and probably salutary , that an open records regime affects the way in which records are kept . |