Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] that [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a heady essay written over thirty years ago , Giorgio de Santillana argued that some of the key ideas of the Scientific Renaissance were to be traced to developments in the arts . |
| 2 | Yet the same writer lamented that some of the first students ‘ in many cases alienated the more thoughtful minds from the denomination ’ . |
| 3 | Pravda reported that most of the ‘ thousands ’ of letters it had received asked the simple question : ‘ When is the war going to end ? ’ |
| 4 | The Church Fathers of the first three centuries affirmed that all of the natural world was essentially and equally good . |
| 5 | Miles Kington found that most of the Burma Road ( Great Journeys , BBC-2 ) is even wetter . |
| 6 | A study by Tom Copeland , a finance academic turned consultant at McKinsey , of six LBOs among its clients found that half of the value created in the buy-outs came as a result of unexpected falls in interest rates . |
| 7 | Similarly , Wright found that most of the victims in his sample had received no injuries . |
| 8 | Levi noted that most of the republics had Jewish communities and said that Israel expected the republics to respect the communities ' rights , including the right to free emigration . |
| 9 | However , the numbers were small and examination of the data showed that several of the Blacks were arrested on one day ( during riots ) and at least one was charged with robbery , probably with adults ; this one incident could have accounted for the larger percentage of Blacks going to the Crown Court . |
| 10 | Bursts of white light that shattered the rock showed that some of the Counsellors had started to direct their lasers towards him . |
| 11 | A United Nations study showed that most of the students completing secondary education , represented the first generation of their family to reach this level ( Filgueira 1983 : 71 ) . |
| 12 | In both studies the authors emphasised that most of the pyloric stenoses could have been diagnosed clinically and that many of the imaging studies performed were not only unnecessary but also not cost effective . |
| 13 | Although nineteenth century whalers discovered that many Of the strange calls at sea were the voices of whales , only recently have the songs Of cetaceans become familiar to the rest of the world . |
| 14 | Bill and Audrey Clark bought a house for £50,000 , and within a few months discovered that most of the window frames were infested with wet rot and required replacing . |
| 15 | My right hon. and learned Friend said that many of the new responsibilities that he announced would lie with the TECs . |
| 16 | In the absence of any concrete government initiative on Punjab , violence in the state had spiralled during 1990 , although all parties accepted that many of the killings were criminally motivated . |
| 17 | Although they did not allow for transactions costs directly , Cakici , Harpaz and Yagil concluded that some of the deviations were sufficiently large to represent profitable arbitrage opportunities . |
| 18 | ( At that time even the most optimistic in the UUUC camp assumed that some of the latter would be returned . ) |
| 19 | In testimony before a court that will eventually rule on whether or not paintings from the Barnes Collection will go on tour for the first time , a conservator argued that several of the Barnes masterpieces should not tour under any circumstances . |
| 20 | Mr Salmond argued that each of the three opposition parties would vote with the Government during the passage of the Maastricht Bill , and warned against ‘ walking out in the huff ’ at every disagreement . |
| 21 | The committee found that most of the complaints were justified and recommended improvements which resulted in the conditions of service and promotion prospects of the staff being brought into line with the rest of the Civil Service . |
| 22 | This she was able to do , but the evaluators found that many of the books had never been opened and that most of them bore no issue dates , even though it was three years since their acquisition . |
| 23 | The plan envisaged that most of the new Soviet immigrants would find work in the private sector . |
| 24 | The plan envisaged that most of the new immigrants would find work in the private sector . |
| 25 | Station commander Wing Commander Stewart Blackburn confirmed that most of the work , apart from some specialist fitting out of new hangers , would go to local contractors . |
| 26 | Automatic equipment meant that many of the relatively routine tasks could be done more quickly and more accurately . |
| 27 | However , Jane felt that many of the problems highlighted by the videos were a result of her inexperience as a first year teacher : |
| 28 | In terms of literature , however , it was n't quite so voluminous as , say , Home Purchaser — but the very nature of the Bond meant that all of the product details could n't be confirmed until just before the launch . |
| 29 | But Palestinian negotiators insisted that all of the 415 alleged Islamic militants exiled to Lebanon in December must be allowed back before they would return to the negotiating table . |
| 30 | First assays showed that some of the plants are viable oxygen producers , edible , medicinal , that kind of thing . |