Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] that it [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Universal franchise has not produced the working-class political dominance which so many people in the nineteenth century on both sides of the debate either feared or hoped that it would . |
| 2 | But she caught sight of her watch and realized that it would be half-past three in the morning in New York . |
| 3 | So it was a breakthrough and I noticed this change in sixty eight and realized that it would be possible to do small-scale removals . |
| 4 | The women put their heads together and agreed that it would be no bad thing if Loverin laid on hard with his strap . |
| 5 | However , the government has now bowed to pressure and announced that it would act as ‘ insurer of last resort ’ for terrorist bomb damage on the British mainland . |
| 6 | After the collapse of Farrow as well as of two major banks in Victoria , the state 's Labor government arranged a line of credit to support other building societies with short-term liquidity problems and announced that it would reform the state 's banking laws to improve protection for depositors . |
| 7 | The Iraqi government offered to co-operate in return for the lifting of economic sanctions and announced that it would send a mission to New York to discuss this with the UN Security Council on March 10 . |
| 8 | The Japanese government , along with the Japanese business sector , gave NAFTA a cool response and announced that it would ask the GATT secretariat to examine the treaty to ensure that it was in accord with multilateral trade rules . |
| 9 | The chairman solemnly read out the terms of the motion ( chosen beforehand by Central Office ) and announced that it would be moved ‘ by Mr Enderby , who is the chairman of the Saffron Walden District Council and a farmer ; and seconded by Mrs de Crespigny , who is a magistrate and a mother of two . |
| 10 | He termed this new pattern of systematized organization ‘ bureaucracy ’ , and argued that it must progressively supplant all rival systems of administration in a modern society because of its technical superiority in tackling problems and marshalling large-scale activity in a purposeful way . |
| 11 | The survey was mainly restricted to the exterior of the Lancaster and estimated that it would take 2,000 man hours to bring R5868 up to exhibition standards externally . |
| 12 | C Will agreed to put this in hand , and estimated that it would take about two months to complete . |
| 13 | Although he acknowledged that there had " been no sign of flexibility " during his talks with Hammadi , Rafsanjani asked rhetorically why he should not meet Saddam Hussein " if there is hope for the salvation of the Iraqi nation " , and added that it would be " logical " to talk to the US administration if the pursuit of peace made it necessary . |
| 14 | Donald Brash , the governor of the Reserve Bank , suggested that it gave scope for easing monetary controls and predicted that it would result in lower interest rates . |
| 15 | Hong Kong officials described the accord as a " major breakthrough " and predicted that it would take between two and three years to clear the camps . |
| 16 | Sounds as if IBM Corp has thrown in the towel and acknowledged that it will never make it with a word processor of its own : it has become a member of Wordperfect Corp 's Customer Advantage Programme , a fancy name for a company-wide licence for IBM to distribute and use Wordperfect products throughout the company with ‘ significant savings ’ and simplified licence administration . |
| 17 | UNITA concluded its seventh congress on March 17 , having re-elected Jonas Savimbi as its president , and stated that it would sign a ceasefire agreement as soon as a date was set for multiparty elections . |
| 18 | Reaffirmed its support for the Palestine Liberation Organisation as the ‘ sole legitimate representative ’ of the Palestinian people and stated that it should play a full role in a UN conference to negotiate a settlement to the Middle East conflict . |
| 19 | One such school had immediately offered places and declared that it would abide by any access restrictions laid upon it . |
| 20 | She remembered how huge she had thought the Longhills ' kitchen on her arrival in Nordale , and reckoned that it would have fitted into a corner of this one . |
| 21 | In the beginning I just hoped and prayed that it would be over next week . |
| 22 | and hinted that it would probably be a good idea if the Rector of St. Mary 's , the Vicar of St. Peter 's , and Mr. John Meridyth ( another Grammar School Visitor from the 1850s ) , who were considered to be at the root of the trouble , were not appointed Trustees . |
| 23 | ( Notice the change which the Durham professorship , and Joan 's coming , wrought — in 1940 no one could conceive of this absent-minded man as a bishop , and six or seven years later the electors to the see of Edinburgh mulled over his name and decided that it would not do , and five years after that both archbishops and the prime minister 's office were agreed that he would be a very good bishop . ) |
| 24 | She considered telephoning Laura , and Kitty , both of whom were long on sympathy and short on cash — so strange that Peter 's orthodox solicitor father should have left his widow quite as poorly provided for as Anna 's unconventional one had left Laura — and decided that it would be unfair . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought about it and decided that it would have been very awkward both for my father and everyone else , not least myself . |
| 26 | Molly remembered the child in pantaloons and decided that it must have been bought by Sandra and not Buck Kettering . |
| 27 | The Israeli delegation rejected such an interpretation and insisted that it would only negotiate with a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation . |
| 28 | The magistrate refused to allow the UK accredited representative to take the recording to London for read-out and insisted that it could be done in Italy . |
| 29 | Tawney called it ‘ a barbarity ’ , ‘ an abomination ’ and insisted that it should go . |
| 30 | ‘ All who were not present when [ the formula ] was agreed reacted in the same way against it , and felt that it would be read by the whole country as a capitulation on the part of the Government to the threat of a General Strike . ’ |