Example sentences of "[prep] [num] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few Spanish statesmen could recognize that America was irretrievably lost ; it is only after 1820 that a handful of liberals talked of the ‘ inevitability ’ of the fruit falling from the tree . |
| 2 | From then onwards , ‘ Fred T. Jane ’ became a recognized signature on bold black and white illustrations in a number of books and magazines ; so realistic was the picture in the Illustrated London News of the torpedoing of the ironclad Blanco Encalada in the Chilean revolutionary war of 1891 that a legend grew that Jane had been present at the action . |
| 3 | There is no requirement in the Act of 1986 that a right of appeal should be given to a person who is not the recipient of an intervention notice . |
| 4 | A temporary replacement was hastily found , but it was not until the end of 1946 that a permanent appointment was made , that of Sgt. P. Merrey , recently retired from the Derbyshire Constabulary . |
| 5 | The 864 legislation mentions en passant in what sounds like an urban context the selling of bread and meat per denerarios : by pennyworths ( ninth-century hamburgers ? ) — which may imply more about normal price levels than Charlemagne 's decree in the famine year of 794 that a penny should buy 12 two-lb. wheaten loaves . |
| 6 | It was in the summer of 1959 that a man with untidy hair , a crumpled suit and pens clipped to his outside breast pocket , looking like a schoolmaster who had fallen on hard times , boarded a plane at London Airport for East Berlin . |
| 7 | It was not until the California law of 1947 that a state law tackled air pollution other than dense smoke , and not until 1952 that Oregon introduced the first comprehensive state air pollution control legislation . |
| 8 | It was not until 1935 that a geologist on the Scottish staff was appointed to supervise petrographical work in Scotland . |
| 9 | These criticisms continued to be levelled at the many standard forms produced in 1963 , but it was not until 1980 that a number of new forms appeared , the lengthy gestation period reflecting the difficulties in satisfying the disparate interests of the constituent members of the Joint Contracts Tribunal . |
| 10 | Other well-known ornithologists followed , including such notable personages as the then Duchess of Bedford , but it was not until 1948 that a ‘ proper ’ bird observatory was established by the late Dr George Waterston . |
| 11 | It was however accepted by the Court of Appeal in 1980 that an injunction could properly be granted even if the defendant was based in England if in the circumstances there was a danger of the assets being removed , and this was put beyond doubt by section 37(3) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 which provides : |
| 12 | Bickford himself fell seriously ill before his fuse could be manufactured in any quantity , and it was only after his death in 1834 that a factory was established in Tuckingmill which continued to make various types of fuse , seldom departing very far from the original specifications , for almost 130 years . |
| 13 | Some earlier critics of the deprave-and-corrupt test had suggested a return to a test based on ‘ outrage ’ , with the Longford Report proposing in 1972 that an article might be deemed to be obscene ‘ if its effect , taken as a whole , is to outrage contemporary standards of decency or humanity accepted by the public at large ’ . |
| 14 | It is evident from a Health Advisory Service ( HAS ) visit in 1985 that a fundamental flaw had been discovered in the planning of the Powick strategy . |
| 15 | However , it was only in 1929 that a separate Secretariat for Latin America was formed within the Comintern 's Moscow administration ; hitherto relations with Latin American Communist parties had been handled through a ‘ Latin Secretariat ’ which also covered Southern Europe . |
| 16 | It was not until 1963 that a reformist element was able to make itself heard , with the election to the position of first secretary of the Slovak party of Alexander Dubček . |
| 17 | In the following years many proposals were made for the construction of a railway between Welshpool and Llanfair Caereinion but it was not until 1898 that a company was formed to build the present line and the then Earl of Powis became its Chairman , an office which he held until the grouping in 1922 . |
| 18 | William Warbey of the ILP Revolutionary Policy Committee suggested early in 1932 that a joint party should be formed . |
| 19 | It was not until 1920 that a Third Division of twenty-two southern clubs was formed , with another of twenty-two northern clubs the following year . |
| 20 | It was not until 1946 that a psychiatrist was called in . |
| 21 | In Italy , Giuseppe Garibaldi , had campaigned for the unification of his country for many years , gaining Venice from the Austrians , and established Victor Emmanuel as King of Italy , but it was not until 1870 that a march on Rome overpowered the French and Papal troops , and establish a united Italy with Victor Emmanuel as King in residence , in July 1871 . |
| 22 | They said in 1976 that a tuned track could shave as much as 7 seconds off the record for the mile . |
| 23 | Back in 1902 that a few local men got together to form the club in a house in Coulson Street , Low Spennymoor . |
| 24 | The Bishop of London , who was responsible for church organization in America , suggested in 1749 that a bishopric should be created for the American colonies ; nonconformist Protestants in England and in America opposed it strongly enough to lead the government to lay the idea aside . |
| 25 | A friend at the Bar estimated to me in 1981 that a youngster of ability on the common law side can go up to eight or ten thousand pounds , but then tends to reach a plateau . |
| 26 | When news arrived early in 1657 that a Spanish plate fleet on its way to the Canaries , Bourne ( now vice-admiral ) and ( Sir ) Richard Stayner [ q.v. ] , the new rear-admiral , pressed Blake to intercept it . |
| 27 | It was not until 1978 that a feasibility study was undertaken on the possible application of a Company Personnel System . |
| 28 | He formed the idea early in 1958 that a new front end with very unequal length wishbones would stop the roll centre moving about . |
| 29 | As the feast declined and the musical competitions rapidly developed , it was decided in 1949 that a new society , the Holmfirth Musical Festival , should be established with an elected committee and officials . |
| 30 | Minimum competencies testing has not been a feature of the UK experience , although the government 's announcement in 1987 that a national curriculum was to be established , with benchmarks for achievement at ages 7,11 and 14 , appeared at first to have similar implications . |