Example sentences of "that a [noun] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also suggested that a proposal had been made to terminate Bloch 's employment . |
| 2 | However , his Lordship considered the second submission , that a contract had been created in respect of the provision of and payment for the valuation report , to be well-founded , because the declaration in question consisted of an offer by the society to provide a copy of the report to the pursuers in exchange for payment , which they accepted by signing and returning the form . |
| 3 | The English must have echoed the rejoicings of the people of Rouen when it was announced , in the early summer of 1444 , that a truce had been agreed between England and France , and that Henry VI was to marry Margaret of Anjou , a niece by marriage of Charles VII . |
| 4 | It was announced on Feb. 25 that a ceasefire had been agreed in principle as a prelude to full peace negotiations . |
| 5 | One ingredient of the net benefits that a society enjoys is health . |
| 6 | It was the first time that a veto had been overridden in the state in the 20th century . |
| 7 | Occasionally someone amy tell you that refusing credit can be the basis for legal action on the grounds that a reputation has been unfairly damaged by a refusal to give credit in a business where giving credit is normal . |
| 8 | The meaning is that a ruling has been made on an enquiry into " rings " developing in the art world . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I do n't know what we 're going to do about that , ’ he said and sucked his teeth and shook his grey head and expressed dismay that a leg had been knocked off the chair . |
| 10 | He proposed a test , based on communication via teletypes with an unseen entity that was to be at first a human and then a computer , and if the human interlocutor , who had been told he was communicating on the subject of the differences between men and women , failed to notice that a machine had been substituted for the original human partner in the dialogue , then the machine was deemed to have passed the test , and Turing suggested we might as well speak of such a successful machine as thinking by polite convention , just as , ‘ instead of arguing continually … it is usual to have a polite convention that everybody thinks ’ . |
| 11 | Rhino numbers are so reduced that a ban has been placed on hunting them . |
| 12 | The training of the vernacular clergy had been in the hands of Arthur Dilworth , the first time that a missionary had been completely set aside for this important task . |
| 13 | As Slade LJ put it in Harlingdon Ltd : … the fact that a description has been attributed to the goods , either during the course of negotiations or even in the contract ( if written ) itself , does not necessarily and by itself render the contract one for 'sale by description " . |
| 14 | The term of the grant is sixteen years , but where it appears that a patentee has been insufficiently remunerated , the Court may extend the term for a period not exceeding five , or , in an exceptional case , ten years . |
| 15 | I believe that , if it is established through a proper investigation that a company has been victimising workers for reporting safety concerns , that company — whether it is a contractor or an operator — must be in exactly the same position as an employee who has jeopardised the safety of a platform . |
| 16 | Mr A. D. Williams of Dundee , Chairman of the Group 's Sub-Committee responsible for the issue of statistics , reported to the meeting that a system had been devised for the collection of statistics from the various Centres . |
| 17 | Less controversially , it soon becomes apparent to personnel involved in course and presenter evaluation that student respondents rarely assign very poor ratings , or make extremely negative comments , even when other indicators such as colleague judgement suggest that a course has been presented particularly poorly . |
| 18 | On the protection of members of the public , the hon. Gentleman said that a case had been decided , but that there was some doubt about the position . |
| 19 | He said he was not satisfied that a case had been made that a nuisance was being caused . |
| 20 | He said he was not satisfied that a case had been made that a nuisance was being caused . |
| 21 | Once re-investigation becomes routine , the fact that a case has been referred for re-investigation should attract no more concern than the fact that a medical diagnosis has been subjected to the test of a second opinion . |
| 22 | Her plea was of course that a trust had been set up in her favour . |
| 23 | The position is that a trust has been set up in favour of the family . |
| 24 | To remind you that a tap has been left on , you can hear the system sparking . |
| 25 | The suffix @ indicates that a DC has been activated on a package and hence may cause the relevant DC number to be listed twice , suffixed first by @ and secondly by $ . |
| 26 | He added that a promise had been given by France to support Warsaw within the " Paris Club " of creditor nations . |
| 27 | So the sound image that a dolphin receives is more like an X-ray than a normal picture . |
| 28 | In the occupational culture of Easton station most of these incidents are rendered afterwards into humorous stories , retold to new recruits and outsiders to demonstrate the ‘ funny side ’ of policing ; and the familiar RUC term ‘ all is regular ’ , used to signify that a call has been attended to , has obvious humorous connotations for one of the community welfare tasks described here . |
| 29 | It was the first time in Israel 's 41-year history that a government had been brought down on a vote of confidence . |
| 30 | One said that a man had been approached to carry out a contract killing on Freddie , but he refused because he liked him . |