Example sentences of "[vb past] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that stuff about ‘ intent ’ and ‘ knowledge ’ might not save a future Exxon from damages in the American courts , if it transpired that a tanker captain was a known incompetent steering through a dangerous place . |
| 2 | It transpired that a large quantity of spent shells from a plane ahead went through the nose and had struck Ed . |
| 3 | It then transpired that a date , April 15 , 1991 , had been accepted by both sides , but that the MPLA delegation was objecting to UNITA 's insistence on adding the condition that April 15 , 1992 , be accepted as a firm date for multiparty general elections . |
| 4 | The same day it transpired that an additional factor had been the judge 's decision to dismiss " public interest immunity " certificates which had been signed by four senior ministers and which would have prevented the disclosure of certain information about the case . |
| 5 | The deputy head ( curriculum ) proposed that a formula approach be considered by faculty heads and most were in favour of developing such a system . |
| 6 | He proposed that a departmental committee should be set up to advise the Commissioner of Works and , looking at the War Department first , should draw up a specification of their requirements , and a competition should be organized ‘ open to the architects of every country , in order that no means may be neglected of obtaining the best designs ’ . |
| 7 | He proposed that a plan for the area should be considered first , which could show the Horse Guards and the Admiralty removed , and St James 's Park extended to the river . |
| 8 | He first addressed himself to Parliament , to which he proposed that a Presbyterian form of government should be established for a limited period , during which the King and his household would be allowed to use the Book of Common Prayer . |
| 9 | The women proposed that a follow-up seminar be organised in 1993 to discuss a five-year plan of programmes and policies for women communicators . |
| 10 | In Britain , Clifford and Frosh ( 1982 ) proposed that a Lacanian-informed approach to the psychology of interpersonal relationships , development , and irrationality , would avoid the traditional discipline 's obsession with single , uncontradictory meanings . |
| 11 | He proposed that a direction be given |
| 12 | To account for their complex set of results they proposed that a concurrent task may have either general effects , that is , influence performance by both hemispheres , and/or specific effects which are restricted to one particular hemisphere . |
| 13 | They proposed that a preparatory committee should start work in July , to prepare for " a summit meeting of the CSCE participating states before the end of this year " in Paris to " mark the starting point for a more advanced stage of the Helsinki process " [ see p. 37386 ] . |
| 14 | Najibullah proposed that a referendum be held in both government and mujaheddin-controlled areas to determine whether a ceasefire should be implemented . |
| 15 | Hilda Lini , the Prime Minister 's sister and a VP MP , proposed that a number of police and court functions might , under the terms of the amended constitution , be shifted to the traditional authority structures of the villages . |
| 16 | Notably , it proposed that a " clear organic relationship " be established between the Western European Union ( WEU ) and the new political union , with the WEU eventually becoming part of the political union and developing " a common security policy on its behalf " , which would not , however , interfere with existing defence arrangements . |
| 17 | The Banjul agreement in December proposed that a national conference be convened within 60 days to discuss the establishment of an interim administration . |
| 18 | Reiterating earlier calls from Czech leaders , he proposed that a referendum be held on the issue . |
| 19 | Havel also proposed that a new constitution should first be initialled by the republican parliaments , and called on the federal government quickly to draft its proposals on executive authority [ see above ] . |
| 20 | Saying that the conference had lost its " national character " by the departure of some members , he proposed that a " national round-table " with a reduced membership should be set up to replace it . |
| 21 | The controversy over criteria for granting Latvian citizenship flared up again at the end of March , when President Anatolijs Gorbunovs proposed that a referendum be held on the issue [ for October and November 1991 controversy see p. 38585 ] . |
| 22 | The Nov. 4 referendum proposed that a simple majority should in future be sufficient to pass constitutional amendments . |
| 23 | H. J. Eysenck proposed that a fundamental difference between introverts and extraverts is their chronic levels of arousal , introverts having generally higher levels of arousal than extraverts . |
| 24 | The report proposed that a progressive element could be applied to contributions . |
| 25 | The committee proposed that a life should be placed on nonconforming uses and that at the expiration of that life the use should be brought to an end without compensation . |
| 26 | He proposed that a prosecution should not be started or continued unless a prosecutor was satisfied there was reliable evidence and kept evidence under review . |
| 27 | He proposed that a prosecution should not be embarked upon or continued unless the prosecutors were satisfied there was reliable evidence . |
| 28 | Coleman , in a letter of 17 February , proposed that an infirmary should be prepared in part of the Woolwich stables , where he could attend once or twice a week . |
| 29 | The paper also proposed that an accounting standard restrict the uses of the share premium account . |
| 30 | Thus he proposed that an accountability scheme should : |