Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the question of unresolved property claims ( numbering 1,200,000 , of which 10,000 were for businesses ) the Cabinet agreed on March 12 that until the end of 1992 investors who created or sustained jobs should be given priority over previous owners [ for agreement on property rights and ownership regulations in unification treaty see pp. 37536 ; 37661 ] . |
| 2 | Bela Kádár , the Hungarian permanent representative to COMECON , said on Jan. 5 that in recent years the organization had " lost touch with the realities of international politics and economics " , and that for this reason it had been essential to wind it up . |
| 3 | Information came to light on Jan. 8 that at the end of December the Serbian national bank had secretly issued 18,300 million dinars ( US$1,400 million ) of new money without approval by the federal National Bank of Yugoslavia , in order to make a loan to the Serbian government . |
| 4 | Hungary 's Prime Minister , Miklós Németh , told parliament on Jan. 23 that in recent conversations with his Soviet counterpart , Nikolai Ryzhkov , it had been agreed in principle that Soviet troops could be withdrawn completely from Hungary , and that negotiations on a timetable would begin shortly . |
| 5 | A Chinese Vice-Premier , Wu Xueqian , said on Jan. 15 that in the transition period up to 1997 " only the central people 's government can , and is entitled to , speak on behalf of the people of Hong Kong " . |
| 6 | Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that during the past 25 years successive Governments have never quite got it right on training , which is so essential to our future prosperity ? |
| 7 | Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that in 1983 unemployment in my Leicestershire , North-West constituency was 14 per cent . |
| 8 | Is my hon. and learned Friend aware that in the Baltic states today the problems of lack of food and hunger are just as serious as , if not more serious than , those in the big cities of the former Soviet Union , but that they receive little attention ? |
| 9 | Local media sources reported on March 10 that at least 100 people had been killed in Taraba state in recent clashes between the Jukun and Tiv ethnic groups over farming rights . |
| 10 | The sub-committee reported back to the Council in July 1969 that within its Charter , or minor modifications of it , changes should be possible with a result that a college , ‘ as it reaches an appropriate state of excellence , should be subject only to that minimum of control by Council consistent with the duties imposed by its Charter ’ . |
| 11 | It has been established by the judgment of this court given on 3 February 1992 that by a letter to the mother , dated 23 September 1991 , the father expressed his acquiescence in the removal . |
| 12 | The news agency Interfax reported on July 5 that at a joint meeting the two opposition movements , Birlik and Erk , had decided on joint action , acknowledging that the differences in approach between them since Erk 's split from Birlik in late 1989 had played into the hands of the government . |
| 13 | After two further administered rises in rates , it was announced on 25 May 1978 that from then onwards MLR would be a purely administered rate . |
| 14 | The RF Central Bank announced on May 9 that in January-April 1992 , 143,100 million roubles were put into circulation — 1.6 times more than during the whole of 1991 . |
| 15 | Revealing for the first time the size of the Exchange Fund ( which guaranteed the Hong Kong dollar ) , the Financial Secretary , Hamish Macleod , announced on July 15 that at the end of 1991 foreign reserves stood at US$29,000 million , the 12th largest in the world . |
| 16 | In a departure from the stance of previous governments , the government announced in February 1990 that over the next five years it proposed to pay Sch300,000,000 in reparations to Austrian Jews who had fled the country after the Anschluss ( the forcible union of Austria with Nazi Germany in 1938 ) and who had not previously received compensation . |
| 17 | It was reported on Oct. 30 that at least 14 people had been hurt and 40 arrested when protesters attempted to prevent 27 members of the KKK from marching in Washington DC . |
| 18 | The Socialist Unity Party of Germany-Party of Democratic Socialism ( SED-PDS — as the former ruling SED had been renamed in December 1989 — see p. 37108 ) announced on Feb. 4 that in future it would be known as the Party of Democratic Socialism ( PDS ) . |
| 19 | It was reported on Oct. 3 that in the previous two weeks Australian groups had recorded combined losses of around A$6,500 million . |
| 20 | It was reported on Oct. 9 that since April 1 , 4,387 of the 50,000 Soviet troops in Poland had left . |
| 21 | Kadhafi said in an interview for the Egyptian political weekly Al-Musawar in October 1989 that in the past Libya had funded some groups without examining their aims and role in detail , but that " when we discovered that these groups were causing more harm than benefit to the Arab cause , we halted our aid to them completely and withdrew our support " . |
| 22 | The joint chiefs of staff reviewed the role of Japan in defence policy and recommended to James Forrestal , the Secretary of Defense , on 1 March 1949 that in consequence of the serious world crisis and the probability of this crisis deepening , appropriate measures should be taken at an early date so that the ‘ military potential ’ of Japan could be utilised should events warrant it . |
| 23 | The daily Clarín reported on March 3 that under a decree signed by Menem on Feb. 26 , 1990 ( expanding an earlier decree of March 10 , 1989 , introduced after the La Tablada attack — see p. 36394 and below ) , the armed forces were entitled to intervene in the event of " a state of internal disturbance " serious enough to endanger the life , liberty , property or security of the country 's inhabitants ; with this in mind the National Security Council [ see p. 36613 ] was to draw up plans for possible joint actions by the police , the security forces and the armed forces . |
| 24 | The human rights organization Amnesty International reported on Nov. 12 that in 1992 there had so far been at least 100 murders of unarmed civilians , many of whom had first been threatened , detained or tortured , in south-eastern Turkey and that political killings were continuing " virtually daily " . |
| 25 | The government announced on Nov. 26 that over a period of three years it intended to cut 122,000 government jobs — approximately one fifth of state employees — at an estimated saving to the state of the equivalent of US$1,500 million . |
| 26 | The House of Lords held that for the directors to have been negligent in taking this course they would have had to have been ‘ cognisant of circumstances of such a character , so plain , so manifest , and so simple of appreciation , that no men with any ordinary degree of prudence , acting on their own behalf ’ would have entered into the transaction . |
| 27 | In Union Transport Plc. v. Continental Lines S.A. [ 1992 ] 1 W.L.R. 15 the House of Lords held that under article 5(1) of the Brussels Convention the court 's jurisdiction was to be determined by the place of performance of the principal obligation in the contract , applying the Court of Justice decision in Ets . A. de Bloos S.P.R.L. v. Société en commandite par actions Bouyer ( Case 14/76 ) [ 1976 ] E.C.R. 1497 described in the speech of Lord Goff of Chieveley [ 1992 ] 1 W.L.R. 15 , 19 : |
| 28 | More recently , the House of Lords held that in fulfilling his/her duty in relation to section 36 the parent had to do ‘ those things that are reasonably practicable to be done and which an ordinary prudent parent would do ’ . |
| 29 | For this reason the House of Lords held that in certain cases an applicant for a declaration or an injunction should not have a choice of procedure : in certain cases it would be and ‘ abuse of the process of the court ’ for an applicant seeking a declaration or an injunction to proceed otherwise than by way of an AJR under Ord. 53 . |
| 30 | The House of Lords held that in the present case the defendants ' disclaimer was sufficient to exclude the assumption by the defendants of a duty of care towards the plaintiff . |