Example sentences of "[vb pp] [that] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was minuted that the papers did not imply a commitment by the Regional Council to particular levels of growth or policy stances and did not constitute a formal statutory stage of public consultation . |
| 2 | Phillario has already wished that the rain would sweep Mira away , and now Corydon is intent on getting rid of weeds . |
| 3 | Mossy , a little like Sean Walsh , would have wished that the kitchen and living quarters of the Hogan household were more separate . |
| 4 | Many times Louisa had wished that the woman might weep as her husband had done , might permit something deeper than care for her creature comforts to reach her . |
| 5 | I would have wished that the Liberal Democrats might have remained in their place , especially as their amendment is now before the House for debate . |
| 6 | The move came as the Bond group disclosed that the fifth deadline for its A$2.5billion brewing deal with New Zealand 's Lion Nathan had passed without agreement , and that the basis of talks was to change . |
| 7 | As investigators from the Mines Inspectorate , British Coal and unions began their inquiries into the accident , the company disclosed that the trapped men had never been in serious danger . |
| 8 | Speaking at a recent Financial Times conference on financial reporting in the UK , Nigel Stapleton of Reed International , chairman of the 100 Group 's technical committee , disclosed that the ASB had received about 100 responses to its draft proposals issued last April . |
| 9 | To give an example of how inadequate official testing can be , at Swansea , where a hell of a lot of people use the sea for recreation , until 1989 it was not disclosed that the official testing point in the sewage outfall pipe was above the point where commercial waste was joining the system . |
| 10 | ( 3 ) That ( per Lord Mackay of Clashfern L.C. and Lord Griffiths ) on the true construction of section 63 of the Finance Act 1976 the taxpayers were assessable on the extra cost of providing the benefit , and from the point of view of expense incurred it could not be said that its provision involved significant extra cost to the school ; that ( Lord Mackay of Clashfern L.C. dissenting ) reference should be made to Hansard to resolve the ambiguity in section 63 , and that the Parliamentary history disclosed that the Act of 1976 was passed on the basis that the effect of sections 61 and 63 thereof was to assess in-house benefits , and particularly concerning education for teachers ' children , on the marginal costs to the employer and not on a proportion of the total costs incurred in providing the service both for the public and the employee ; and that section 63 should be construed accordingly ( post , pp. 1036C–E , F–G , 1039B , C , G , 1040B , 1042C–D , 1063A , H — 1064A , C , 1067A ) . |
| 11 | The business meeting disclosed that the BDDA had survived the first year successfully , but that its formation had not been greeted with enthusiasm by the deaf and dumb of the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | In May 1991 , it was disclosed that the Metropolitan police area was to be permanently patrolled by special units , known as ARVs ( armed response vehicles ) . |
| 13 | They said Nicola had been found brutally stabbed to death in her office although neither newspaper disclosed that the murder weapon was a pair of scissors . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , it has been disclosed that the Queen Mother was entertaining guests within a short time of leaving Aberdeen Royal Infirmary . |
| 15 | In July it was disclosed that the Soviet Union was owed the equivalent of 87,500 million ( 25 per cent in convertible currencies ) , but much of this was believed to be for arms sales to poorer countries who were unable to repay it . |
| 16 | As King Hassan celebrated the 30th anniversary of his accession to the throne on March 3 , officials disclosed that the eight members of the family of the late Gen. Mohammed Oufkir had been released on Feb. 27 after over 18 years in detention . |
| 17 | The report disclosed that the Ministry of Agriculture monitoring programme for the lake had been seriously inaccurate . |
| 18 | There the evidence before him merely disclosed that the defendants whilst being employed by the plaintiffs simply made plans or preparations for their future post termination activities . |
| 19 | The Government has disclosed that the IRA 's new bombing offensive in Northern Ireland will cost the taxpayer at least twenty-two million pounds in compensation . |
| 20 | A month ago its chairman Paul Torday , a former Northern CBI chairman , disclosed that the cost of its defence amounted to £653,000 . |
| 21 | The Saturday Evening Post scoop was relayed to British newspapers which quoted from the article and disclosed that the head of MI5 was Sir Martin Furnival-Jones . |
| 22 | The row , which has prompted calls from some staff for both to resign , began when it was disclosed that the £140,000-a-year director general Birt had been employed as a freelance to gain tax advantages . |
| 23 | Yet if the dances of Vera and Natalia in A Month in the Country and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet are examined it will be discovered how the technical content is so designed that the steps , poses and gestures show how changing circumstances are affecting the individuals . |
| 24 | Bearwood is so designed that the ladies get no closer to the offices than the door between the transverse and the butler 's corridor . |
| 25 | As was pointed out in the previous chapter , the plan of the Victorian house and the Victorian city have this in common : that both are so designed that the few who live on the privileged side of the divide need know nothing of the many who are crowded beyond it into a fraction of the space . |
| 26 | Eliot seems to have ignored these suggestions because for him the physical and social landscape of London was no more than a screen on which to project a phantasmagoria that expressed his own personal disorders and desperations ( partly sexual , as one might expect , and as the drafts make clear ) ; whereas Pound seems to have supposed that the subject of the poem was London in all its historical and geographical actuality , much as the city of Dublin was from one point of view the subject of Joyce 's Ulysses . |
| 27 | After that it was supposed that the others would merge with them . |
| 28 | Before Weismann , most evolutionary theorists , and in particular the Frenchman Jean Baptiste Lamarck ( 1744–1829 ) , had supposed that the main cause of evolutionary change was the ‘ inheritance of acquired characters ’ . |
| 29 | At one time it was supposed that the ammonoids were suffering from ‘ racial senescence ’ at that time and that the uncoiling represented a kind of genetic exhaustion . |
| 30 | They have a record going well back into the Cambrian , when it might be supposed that the chordates were undergoing a major diversification . |