Example sentences of "[vb past] that [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that whilst setting the Corsair 's electrically-operated rudder trim for take-off , it stuck in the full right position . |
| 2 | Eight resolutions were put before the Congress , the most crucial being the first two which proposed that since education of deaf children by the proven Oral Method was far superior , the use of sign language in education should no longer be used . |
| 3 | Nick , by this time leading a glamorous social life in England with his girlfriend Arabella ( Ari ) Campbell MacNair-Wilson , daughter of a Conservative Member of Parliament , proposed that since nobody wanted a purely business party for journalists and other promotional appendages , each of the children should invite their own friends . |
| 4 | Lee gave him a shove , there was some pushing and tripping up , Kevin fell over into Dean 's lap and a woman at the other end of the car shouted that if they did n't behave themselves she 'd find someone at Goldhawk Road who would make them . |
| 5 | Facing his first annual meeting as IBM Corp 's chairman and chief executive , Louis Gerstner did not mince words , telling the Tampa assembly that the company 's very survival had been called into question in the past year , but promised that although the company 's reputation was temporarily tarnished , it will remain strong thanks to its worldwide base — ‘ It would be a great mistake for naysayers to underestimate IBM , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 6 | Although we were suitably impressed by the mere twelve-footer caught in Likangloe , the hunters promised that before we left they would take us into what was known locally as the " Death Cave " to find the really big pythons . |
| 7 | They promised that if their cathedral came through unscathed , they would dedicate a window in gratitude to the Royal Air Force . |
| 8 | Throckmorton also claimed that Sir Thomas More [ q.v. ] had once sent for him and promised that if he continued ‘ in the same way ’ and was not afraid , he would ‘ deserve great reward from God ’ . |
| 9 | Mr Kinnock promised that if Labour come to power , all that will change . |
| 10 | A recent survey of selection methods used by companies in both Britain and France for management selection , demonstrated that although the number of British companies using psychological tests had increased since an earlier survey carried out in 1984 ( Robertson and Makin , 1986 ) most organisations still relied on the traditional selection methods of the application form , interview and letters of reference ( Shackleton and Newell , 1991 ) . |
| 11 | At the second meeting on 9th June , Hunt was called as a witness ; he presented a paper which demonstrated that if all the Government Offices ‘ scattered about in various parts of the metropolis ’ , with the exception of the Admiralty and the Inland Revenue at Somerset House , were housed in four storeys , although architecturally ‘ hardly desirable ’ , allowing for courts and roads , they could fit into the area between Richmond Terrace , the river , Parliament Square and the park , and still leave space for expansion . |
| 12 | Wright ( 1978 ) demonstrated that if we interpret the working class to mean manual workers who lack property in the means of production and are exploited ( have surplus value extracted from them ) , then only a fifth of the contemporary USA population fits the definition ! |
| 13 | In 1977 , J. Ekstrand demonstrated that when a healthy adult male weighing 60 kg swallowed 10 milligrams of fluoride , the levels of ionic fluoride in his blood peaked after about an hour to just over 0–4 ppm per kg of body weight ( European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology , vol 12 , p 311 ) . |
| 14 | That if that 's an old fashioned design , I mean we designed that as being something that his granny might have had . |
| 15 | Daedalus mused that if the metal was not uniformly heated , upwelling convection cells would form within it . |
| 16 | strait talking Mark Knopfler Talking to Dire Straits ' frontman backstage at one of the band 's £150,000 per day tour dates , Bob Hewitt mused that when Guitaristlast spoke to Mr.Knopfler six years ago , further outings on the scale of ‘ Brothers In Arms ’ seemed unthinkable . |
| 17 | The mother of one of the victims maintained that although the girls were referred to in court only by their first names to protect them from reprisals , she was particularly worried that people in the court 's public gallery knew who the girl was . |
| 18 | Deborah maintained that if the company wished to keep hold of its original and still loyal customers , now in the thirty-plus age bracket , and looking for more elegant attire , it had a lot of ground to make up . |
| 19 | The Secretary of State maintained that because of section 82 the applicant was not entitled to a statutory redundancy payment . |
| 20 | in the local press joked that if he had done all the write-up said then he must have joined the police when he , was about 7 ! |
| 21 | The villagers often joked that if she met a German tank on the road to Berkeley , she would order it off the road and pass on as if nothing had happened . |
| 22 | You joked that as you kissed me deeply you could taste the tang of my lunchtime Cumberland sausage . |
| 23 | I 've moved that , I moved that so he did n't knock it over cos he were knocking it with his tail . |
| 24 | She very much doubted that when she got home , if she ever did , she would think it worth asking her mother . |
| 25 | The Elector of Hanover was known to hold little sympathy for the Tories , whom he felt had betrayed the Allies at the Peace of Utrecht , and few doubted that when George I became King the Tories would lose the political ascendancy they had enjoyed since 1710 . |
| 26 | There is the youth hostel and I know who built that cos he 's a friend of mine . |
| 27 | But things started to change when a friend mentioned that since I had lost a little weight whilst being away on a beach holiday with my boyfriend ( not deliberately , just through not eating much in the heat of Spain ) several people had said how I looked better . |
| 28 | I think ya mentioned that once before and I |
| 29 | And then , one day , out of the blue , Jean-Claude mentioned that if he had a piano he might take pupils . |
| 30 | He also mentioned that when the guitar reaches full production level , a care kit will be included with each one — which comes as something of a relief , because at present I would be nervous about approaching this instrument even with something as seemingly innocuous as furniture polish . |