Example sentences of "[vb past] that under " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1963 , when he was already Leader of the Labour Party , Harold Wilson promised that under a Labour government there would be ‘ Grammar School education for all ’ , and few in the Labour Party wanted to be seen as the enemy of the grammar schools . |
| 2 | The appointment of the famous doctor and educational theorist Nikolai Pirogov to the headship of the Odessa educational district in 1856 demonstrated that under Alexander II enlightened academics could not only serve in educational institutions , but also run them . |
| 3 | The secretariat minuted that under the 1870 Education Act and the existing code the board had no control over the content of religious education . |
| 4 | They argued that under imperialism there could be no separate ‘ national question ’ . |
| 5 | It believed that under socialism all nationalism would be irrelevant since there would be no need to organise market forces against one another in competing nationalities . |
| 6 | Recalling , no doubt , the sad disruptions of her own early life , she declared that ‘ our grand study has been to make him happy ’ , and added that under their Rousseau-inspired regime , in which Basil was taught nothing ‘ but what he learns from the evidence of his senses ’ , he had become ‘ certainly the most contented child I ever saw ; the least disposed to be fretful . ’ |
| 7 | A French lieutenant holding a bunker in the village noted that under the bombardment ‘ this vast block , 30 metres square , oscillated , at times actually rising up , like a ship ’ Yet still the suicide machine-gun nests stayed behind in the pulverised debris and mowed down the German assault waves . |
| 8 | Howarth 's fax stated that under the Conservatives , science funding has increased by 25 per cent above inflation . |
| 9 | Vyshinsky made what Bevin described as ‘ an interminable speech ’ in which he quoted extensively from the agreements reached at Potsdam and stated that under the Potsdam terms the Council of Foreign Ministers and not the FEC was the relevant body for negotiating a peace treaty . |
| 10 | In reply , the Commission stated that under articles 4(2) and 8 of Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 170/83 it was to submit to the Council of the European Communities before 31 December 1991 a report on the fisheries situation in the Community , the economic and social development of the coastal areas and the state of the stocks and their likely evolution . |
| 11 | The report stated that under the terms of the new budget , the government had agreed to meet all demands submitted by the Defence Ministry in order to ensure maintenance of Iraq 's combat capabilities . |
| 12 | When I last had the opportunity to question my right hon. Friend , he confirmed that under the Conservatives , miners and other earners in my constituency would not pay a higher rate of income tax . |
| 13 | ( It is interesting to compare Fawcett 's position to that of Ramsay MacDonald , whose adherence to patriarchal views within the family surpassed his faith in collectivism in the matter of family allowances ; he declared that under socialism the mother and children 's right to maintenance would be honoured by the male breadwinner , not the state . ) |
| 14 | He claimed that under the National Curriculum there would be sufficient flexibility , for example , for schools to merge the teaching of traditional subjects , or to abolish classes based primarily on age . |
| 15 | Sharon claimed that under Shamir 's premiership " Palestinian terrorism is running wildly rampant inside all of Eretz Yisrael [ the whole of the biblical " Land of Israel " , including the West Bank , Gaza and the Golan Heights ] " . |
| 16 | Speaking from Sierra Leone , Moniba claimed that under the Constitution he should have taken over on the death of Doe in September , and he called on Sawyer 's interim government to step down . |
| 17 | The company claimed that under the then rules this was only taxable ( the interest and dividends ) when brought back to the United Kingdom . |
| 18 | The Governor suspected that John 's banking affairs would be in a similar mess and a check showed that under his Chairmanship and by his influence , more than half of the assets of the Bank of New South Wales had been loaned to a small group of businessmen . |
| 19 | Mr. Croucher replied that under the present law it was up to the applicant to notify other people of their intention in writing . |
| 20 | They also protested that under the law half of any funds received from abroad were to be placed in a special " fund for democracy " . |
| 21 | First he submitted that under section 6(2) the school owed a duty to comply with the applicants ' preference to educate their daughters at the school by admitting them unless that duty was disapplied by section 6(3) . |
| 22 | This meant that under the then current ICAO arrangements in Annex 13 the UK was not entitled to appoint an accredited representative to participate in these investigations , notwithstanding the fact that in each case a very significant proportion of the passengers were British nationals . |
| 23 | The area health authority and Department of Health and Social Security on the other hand contended that under the common law a minor of sufficient intelligence and understanding could always consent to treatment and that the effect of section 8 was to produce an irrebuttable presumption that a child of 16 or 17 had such intelligence and understanding . |
| 24 | At least she thought him middle-aged , but his voice was n't and when she looked at him again she saw that under his haggard features and emaciated frame he was still young , perhaps in his late twenties . |
| 25 | Leech had only a short time to go before his own appointment came to an end , but thought that under the circumstances he should offer his resignation . |
| 26 | He said he thought that under the current situation Right-wing Ministers like Michael Howard , Peter Lilley and Michael Portillo were consistently being out-voted . |
| 27 | Patrick Moss , director of legal aid in Hong Kong , said that under the scheme , a successful litigant paid between 10 and 12 per cent of his damages to a central fund which financed other cases . |
| 28 | Yesterday Mr Patten said that under the Bill as it now stands he will be able to demand a re-run of voting on grant-maintained status where he has evidence it was not fairly conducted . |
| 29 | Ms Burke said that under her care , Profile provided about 3,000 telephone numbers a day to customers undertaking planning applications . |
| 30 | SCO business development vice president , Jim Wilt , said that under the terms of their technology exchange pacts still in force , DEC could license pieces of ODT from SCO . |