Example sentences of "[vb past] that the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It subsequently transpired that the conveyancing arrangements I have described were part of a fraudulent scheme of the Hammonds to obtain money for themselves using the property as security . |
| 2 | It later transpired that the Hargrave vehicle customs-cleared its load of Spanish refrigerated produce in Dover as it would have done on any night of the year , up till now . |
| 3 | If it transpired that the intervention notice was not justified , and Lautro rescinded it , a press notice might already have caused substantial damage to the person affected . |
| 4 | The revised scheme proposed that the water authorities , now with only the functions of water supply and sewage disposal , should be privatised , but that a new National Rivers Authority should be created ( in the public sector ) to take over from the water authorities the regulatory functions of pollution control , water conservation , land drainage and flood protection , conservation , recreation , fisheries and navigation . |
| 5 | They proposed that the branch lines between Afonwen and Bangor , Corwen to Denbigh and Rhyl , and Denbigh to Mold be transferred from the L.M.R. to the W.R. |
| 6 | The statement also proposed that the peace process " must be advanced with the momentum generated by the will of the international community and not made subject to Israeli concurrence and rejection " . |
| 7 | The Colonel proposed that the signatory powers would form a ‘ consortium , guaranteeing the non-alignment of the country ’ . |
| 8 | Consequently , he proposed that the reporting unit should be defined as the fund and that organizations should be seen as one fund or a series of funds . |
| 9 | Stalin and Molotov suddenly at a meeting of the Council of Commissars … proposed that the control figures of the plan be increased twofold … in June 1930 , Stalin suddenly announced sharp increases in the goals — for pig iron , from 10 million to 17 million tons by the last year of the plan ; for tractors , from 55,000 to 170,000 ; for other agricultural machinery and trucks , an increase of more than 100 per cent . |
| 10 | Billy Kelly , the power workers ' leader who had then been instrumental in halting industry , promised that the electricity workers would again bring the province to a halt . |
| 11 | As news of the riots broke President George Bush appealed for calm and promised that the Justice Department would examine the question of whether federal charges should be brought against the acquitted police officers . |
| 12 | A desperate last memo from the London office manager , Anne Diamond , promised that the Christmas party , which had degenerated into a drink in the wine bar opposite GLEB , would now be held in January . |
| 13 | So , the S.A.S. had been in and demonstrated that the Ministry police security was a load of rubbish … |
| 14 | Someone maintained that the land owners would be immediately involved in these management groups . |
| 15 | The Commission maintained that the nationality requirements laid down in the Act of 1988 were contrary to the general prohibition of discrimination on grounds of nationality set out in article 7 of the E.E.C . |
| 16 | In the present case , Mr. and Mrs. M. Deighan maintained that the district council should have considered the application as a submission of details reserved under the original outline planning consent . |
| 17 | Throughout his time in Darlington he maintained that the football club would never succeed while it played at Feethams . |
| 18 | North , however , maintained that the ship story ended quite differently , even victoriously , with the Monimbo ‘ on its side on the beach ’ . |
| 19 | The Council maintained that the investment problems could be overcome without major organisational change . |
| 20 | He maintained that the forest wastes wanted ‘ only inclosure to be highly productive ’ of corn : a general Enclosure Act would make them ‘ profitable to the Community ’ . |
| 21 | Wilkinson , who has cajoled and bullied to knock Cantona into shape , joked that the language barrier is still there because ‘ If I 'm saying nice things about him he seems to understand — if I suggest he works harder or I say nasty things , he finds that harder to comprehend . ’ |
| 22 | Critics doubted that the freeze period would be used as intended by the Council to resolve possible conflicts between the relevant legislation and the Bill . |
| 23 | But this difficulty was quickly and neatly overcome : the man who hired the car — a man , yes ! — gave the telephone number of The Randolph , and as the firm 's representative was dialling the number he casually mentioned that the Deputy Manageress of The Randolph could be immediately contacted on a certain extension . |
| 24 | In answer to this the respondents who were in favour of this clause and its enforcement said that they now deemed that the sale agreements were null and void and they began to sell another brand of petrol at both garages . |
| 25 | The Sheen inquiry found that the ferry company was ‘ infected with sloppiness from top to bottom ’ . |
| 26 | therefore investigated recognition memory for conversation in a ‘ soap opera ’ and found that the surface form of an utterance was remembered if it carried some pragmatic meaning . |
| 27 | When James Coats was touring the Highlands and Islands in his yacht he found that the lighthouse keepers had nothing to read in their off duty periods so he presented a library to every lighthouse round the coast of Scotland . |
| 28 | The justices found that the threshold criteria were satisfied and that the appropriate order was a care order to the local authority with various provisions for contact . |
| 29 | In their study of Yorkshire during the 1984–5 strike , for example , Winterton and Winterton ( 1989 : see also Waddington et al. , 1990 ) found that the strike breakers were more likely to live outside the mining communities , thereby producing a geography whereby the strike was strongest ( and longest ) in the pits whose labour came mainly from local , closed communities : in Nottinghamshire , of course , the opposite occurred , with the closed communities being solid against the strike . |
| 30 | To my dismay , I found that the bleach formula had left my mind and would not be recalled . |