Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pers pn] be [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suddenly found that I was losing my powers at a time when I needed them most . |
| 2 | Soon she realised that he was singing her praises to his friends , because other similar garden owners rang her up and asked her if she could do a few hours for them too . |
| 3 | After a moment she realised that he was extolling her virtues as a personal assistant . |
| 4 | His jaw ached and he realised that he was grinding his teeth , so he released the muscles and tried to relax . |
| 5 | The cigarette turned out to be a dirty , slovenly , foul-mouthed creature and Lisa realised that she was projecting her own nasty bits on to it . |
| 6 | The reason for the move is that Phil took redundancy from BP when they announced that they were closing their Glasgow office and has since found a job with a Swedish oil company in London . |
| 7 | On Jan. 29 President César Gaviria Trujillo made a fresh offer , extending an earlier decree to include crimes committed up to the time of surrender , and on Jan. 30 the Extraditables , maintaining that the police had in fact killed Diana Turbay , announced that they were reconsidering their latest declaration of war and would abstain from violent action for the moment . |
| 8 | Transforming at a stroke the state of its balance sheet , Philips Electronics NV on Friday announced that it is to sell its 35% stake in the Japan-based Matsushita Electronics Corp to its partner in the venture , Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd for a whopping $1,600m . |
| 9 | The substance of this report was that , almost 300 years after it had condemned Galileo for saying that the Earth revolved around the Sun , the Roman Catholic Church announced that it was to re-examine his case ‘ with full objectivity ’ . |
| 10 | When in August 1986 GM announced that it was merging its North American heavy truck operations with Volvo , under Volvo 's control , the future of Bedford looked bleak . |
| 11 | On Nov. 16 Germany announced that it was disbanding its branch of a clandestine anti-communist network . |
| 12 | On April 17 Germany announced that it was increasing its aid for Kurdish refugees to DM440,000,000 ( $262,600,000 ) . |
| 13 | After the vote , the government of Mr Yegor Gaidar , First Deputy Prime Minister , announced that it was withdrawing its threat to resign . |
| 14 | On Dec. 3 the South African government announced that it was withdrawing its diplomatic representatives from Angola . |
| 15 | On Sept. 19 the RJO announced that it was freezing his release because Israel had reneged on a pledge to release 80 Arab detainees in the earlier transfer — 20 more than the 51 prisoners and nine bodies which were handed over . |
| 16 | India announced that it was to increase its contribution to the third replenishment from $6,500,000 to $8,000,000 . |
| 17 | On Sept. 28 the United Kingdom announced that it was scrapping its short-range battlefield nuclear weapons but would continue with plans to arm the Navy with the multi-warhead Trident D-5 submarine-launched missile . |
| 18 | However , on Jan. 11 , 1990 , the United States announced that it was to cut its 1990 contribution to FAO from $70,000,000 to $18,000,000 and would consider withdrawing from the organization altogether . |
| 19 | On the following day Perot announced that he was abandoning his campaign . |
| 20 | Also on June 9 , immediately after the close of polls , Jan Budaj , Deputy Chairman of the Slovak National Council ( parliament ) and a leading PAV candidate for the Council , announced that he was withdrawing his candidacy , saying that he had been registered as a collaborator with the StB in the 1970s . |
| 21 | CHRIS PATTEN , the Secretary of State for the Environment , yesterday announced that he was overturning his predecessor Nicholas Ridley 's ‘ mindedness ’ to allow an instant , private new town to be built on the Berkshire/Hampshire borders , south-east of Wokingham . |
| 22 | Jumblatt also announced that he was suspending his own participation in the Cabinet until the army had withdrawn from the National Library , the Emir Amin Palace and the Bayt al-Din Palace — buildings the PSP had recently been occupying . |
| 23 | A critical glance in the mirror as she thrust her feet into high-heeled black shoes revealed that she was looking her best . |
| 24 | The UK government has abandoned proposals to draw up a register of contaminated land , after sustained criticism from property developers , who argued that it was prejudicing their activities . |
| 25 | By controlling me they believed that they were avoiding my criticism of them as parents . |
| 26 | Following a meeting of United States , United Kingdom and Hong Kong government officials in Washington on June 6 , the US government stated that it was to drop its opposition to negotiations between the UK and Vietnamese governments for the " involuntary repatriation " of Vietnamese boat people not considered to be genuine refugees , and to the possible establishment of an internationally managed centre in Vietnam to hold them on their return . |
| 27 | COOPERS & LYBRAND and Deloitte Haskins & Sells yesterday confirmed that they are to merge their UK practices to create the largest accountancy firm in the country with a fee income in excess of £413m . |
| 28 | In a letter to a newspaper one man commented that he was taking his six-year-old daughter to her school sports day when she asked , ‘ Daddy , can I have some of the drugs that Ben Johnson took to make me run fast ? ’ |
| 29 | She shrieked that he was to take his hands off her . |
| 30 | The cocked eyebrow indicated that he was re-examining his previous cynical stabs at her ailment . |