Example sentences of "[vb pp] [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many a time I had wished that Frank and Salome were not so upwardly mobile and were back slumming it in Stuart Street . |
| 2 | She was still distressed and could have wished that Mr. Crowther had waited a little longer before telling her about her inheritance , when the sadness and regret she felt about Aunt Alicia 's death was not so overpowering . |
| 3 | Subsequent reports disclosed that EC ministers had been divided , with a minority , led by the United Kingdom and Germany , pressing for acceptance of the Dunkel draft as " the basis for an agreement " , and the rest claiming with the French Agriculture and Forestry Minister , Louis Mermaz , that it " would be the ruin of European agriculture " . |
| 4 | Recordings of EEC while sleep-deprived subjects have been engaged in tasks have disclosed that errors of commission are not associated with EEC patterns different from those during correct performance , while errors of omission ( indicating failure to maintain attention ) are associated with reduced alpha . |
| 5 | On the same day the chairman of the commission investigating the June events disclosed that miners were being questioned over their involvement in the violent crackdown against the anti-government demonstrators and the subsequent ransacking of opposition leaders ' offices and homes . |
| 6 | Yesterday it was also disclosed that Thorn EMI had failed to sell its defence business after trying for five months . |
| 7 | Regarding the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ( CFE ) [ see p. 37838 ] , a Soviet Foreign Ministry statement on Dec. 21 disclosed that Baker and Shevardnadze had discussed the dispute surrounding " the accuracy of data on the number of weapons and military equipment " supplied by the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | Attacks on asylum hostels and cemeteries , the majority in western Germany , continued during November , while on Nov. 11 the German Defence Ministry disclosed that investigations were being made into 24 cases of alleged involvement of soldiers in extreme right-wing violence — including three cases of manslaughter . |
| 9 | A report in Le Monde of Sept. 20 disclosed that India faced the loss of workers ' remittances from Iraq and Kuwait totalling $400 million , and would lose exports to Iraq and Kuwait worth around $185 million , while an oil price increase of $3.00 per barrel would add $1,700 million to its oil import bill . |
| 10 | On Feb. 8 the official news agency Tass had disclosed that Georgia 's Prime Minister Tengiz Sigua had written to the director of an armaments factory in the Russian city of Tula offering to barter Georgian food products for guns and ammunition . |
| 11 | In a separate report , the government disclosed that applications for unemployment benefits dropped to a five-month low in the week ending April 4 . |
| 12 | The Guardian of May 4 disclosed that Kurt Klebeck , the wartime deputy commander of a labour camp in the Channel Island of Alderney , was alive and living in Hamburg , contrary to earlier British intelligence claims that he had not survived the war . |
| 13 | A lawsuit in 1625 disclosed that Richard Warner , a soap-boiler of Bristol , had a mill in Caerleon , Monmouthshire , and by offering double wages , had secured some of Webb 's workers to build it . |
| 14 | THE first split in the Government 's ranks over the ambulance workers dispute appeared last night when it was disclosed that Mr David Trippier , the Environment Minister , had written to the Health Secretary saying he could see the logic in the ambulance workers ' case . |
| 15 | Club officials disclosed that Mr Souness had kept news of the operation secret from the players so they could concentrate on the match against Portsmouth . |
| 16 | At a recent meeting it was disclosed that £350,000 was needed — just to bring its electrics and equipment into line with the Health and Safety Act . |
| 17 | In a sensational interview , Susan Barrantes also disclosed that Fergie has told her : |
| 18 | The briefing disclosed that Lolani Koko , who was named in the New Zealand squad for the Hong Kong Sevens , has apparently decided to stay loyal to Western Samoa . |
| 19 | Other studies have disclosed that patients complaining of slow transit constipation have impaired cyclic rectal activity , suggesting that these patients have a motor neuropathy . |
| 20 | A survey has found that some hospitals are so badly designed that doctors spend four hours of every working day just walking from one ward to another . |
| 21 | Therefore it was supposed that payments practices , and other institutional arrangements which change only slowly over time , have more influence on the velocity of circulation than any temporary changes in M. Before the First World War there may have been a good deal of truth in this assumption because the financial system was relatively unsophisticated and financial innovation was taking place very slowly by today 's standards . |
| 22 | It may be supposed that Cole 's comments refer only to the production of goods for retail in the Consumers , Movement 's own stores , and are not to be read as relating to the more general development of the industrial co-operative sector . |
| 23 | And the way that the text is translated I 've always supposed that Jesus must have thought that mustard seeds had a lot of faith . |
| 24 | ‘ It does seem to me there must necessarily be some provision of this kind unless it is to be supposed that ministers are never to be allowed to leave the country at all . ’ |
| 25 | For four decades it was supposed that Hicks 's model contained all of the basic ingredients of the General Theory approach to the theory of employment . |
| 26 | I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’ |
| 27 | It is supposed that thoughts can not just come and go , but need a person to think them . |
| 28 | At the same time , it was not to be supposed that William Joyce had put himself entirely on the wrong side of the law . |
| 29 | I simply wish to point out that if it is supposed that Karen Parsons and I embarked that afternoon with the intention of drowning her husband , why did we wait till we had reached a point where our criminal acts were overlooked by at least fifteen witnesses ? |
| 30 | For instance , it is commonly supposed that trees and shrubs colour better on acid soils than they do on alkaline . |