Example sentences of "commentators noted [that] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commentators noted that the lifting of some restrictions on black political activity in early February had given rise to a sharp increase in the level of township protest . |
| 2 | Commentators noted that the requirement of a two-thirds majority of the electorate in favour of secession left Lithuania , with its 80 per cent Lithuanian population , with a realistic chance of seceding under the new law . |
| 3 | Commentators noted that the anti-government activity was now coming from young people with no direct experience of the events of the mid-1970s and pointed to youth unemployment and associated social problems as an element in the agitation . |
| 4 | Commentators noted that the leadership restructuring was likely in practice to curtail still further the role of both the politburo and central committee in influencing state policy ( already the politburo had effectively been supplanted by Gorbachev 's new Presidential Council — see pp. 37298-99 ) . |
| 5 | Commentators noted that the decree might prove impossible to implement except by force . |
| 6 | Commentators noted that the switch to full hard-currency trading would badly hit the east European states . |
| 7 | Commentators noted that the collapse of communist power in the Soviet Union , following the August coup attempt there [ see pp. 38368-73 ] , had hastened the two countries ' moves towards normalization . |
| 8 | Other commentators noted that the government was unlikely in an election year to introduce reforms which would bring with them large numbers of redundancies . |
| 9 | Commentators noted that the country 's disillusion with politics was shown by the low turnout and the considerable support for extremist or joke parties , such as the Confederation for an Independent Poland ( which was strongly nationalistic ) , and the Beer Lovers ' Party ( which was led by a comedian but included businessmen ) . |
| 10 | Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk , making a public apology for Ukraine 's part in the massacre , acknowledged for the first time that Babi Yar had been primarily a massacre of Jews , and commentators noted that the ceremony was also a way of emphasising the government 's insistence on minority rights in Ukraine ( where 500,000 Jews still lived ) . |
| 11 | Commentators noted that the demonstration was part of a wider ANC strategy to weaken the attempts of President F. W. de Klerk to forge an alliance between the ruling National Party and conservative black bantustan leaders . |
| 12 | Commentators noted that the only remaining serious opposition party was the Social Democratic Front ( SDF ) , which , having boycotted the March 1992 legislative elections [ see p. 38802 ] , was not represented in the National Assembly . |