Example sentences of "that [n mass] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He reported that £1,000 had been set aside for proper surfacing of paths at Radford Park . |
| 2 | Was he perhaps , an applicant for the Coniston lease earlier , only to find to his mortification that Roe had effected a fait accompli ? |
| 3 | Although there appears no evidence that Roe did do any work under this option , they were certainly deepening their workings in the Coniston Mine , on the Bonsor Vein . |
| 4 | The divisional controllers themselves complained that this compromised their own line of authority within the division , and they generally harboured a strong feeling that headquarters interfered too much in the design of new stations . |
| 5 | It can not have been only in relation to land that £40 had a special significance . |
| 6 | Applications continued to be reported into the 1970s , but a survey which covered 276 of the 500 largest corporations in America found in 1969 that 80% had never used or considered job enlargement ( Schoderbek and Reif , 1969 ) . |
| 7 | A few days later , the storm became so violent that sheep became buried in six-foot drifts of snow , and the camera recorded farmers scrabbling down with their hands to release buried sheep , pin-pointed by amazingly perceptive border collies . |
| 8 | It is interesting to note that sheep had almost no effect on the form of the farmstead as buildings were very rarely provided for them . |
| 9 | In view of the fact that £20 constituted the base line for richer taxpayers , it is difficult to explain why mere husbandmen , who typically were small farmers , should have formed three-quarters of the £20-£39 class , far outnumbering yeomen , businessmen , and even gentlemen . |
| 10 | Despite the obstructions it was clear that aircraft did use the runway , for it was marked by the black rubber streaks of fresh tyre marks , but the two trucks , together with the yellow cross , were evidence that the runway could only be used by invitation . |
| 11 | I refer to your invoice dated 16/4/91 informing me that £10.58 had been debited from the above account for ‘ Audit Certificate Fee ’ . |
| 12 | To speak differently , if e had not occurred , then even if there had also occurred any change x logically consistent with the absences of e and of cc , and consistent with the absences of links between cc and e , it would also have been the case that cc did not occur . |
| 13 | Halliwell Sutcliffe wrote at the end of the nineteenth century that folk came from all the surrounding villages to enjoy the swingboats and coconut shys , and to join the dancing on the village green . |
| 14 | Rostov guessed that Yuan had decided that the emotional shield which was provided by conversational Manchu was no longer necessary . |
| 15 | Designed long ago , the defences of Famagusta consisted of towers and wallwalks , battlements and arrow slits , without proper seating for cannon , or for the ventilation that cannon demanded . |
| 16 | She straightened the skirt that Thérèse had lent her , dusted it with both hands , then descended the stairs . |
| 17 | That fish came zooming up to the top then , to see what you were doing . |
| 18 | A survey of 2,000 federation members had shown that 48pc believed police should have the right to take industrial action . |
| 19 | Gabriel thought that twopence did not seem worth bothering about , so he stepped forward . |
| 20 | For example , a survey of 1,800 working women in France might show that 38% read at least one magazine weekly , and a similar survey in West Germany of 940 working women showed that 47% of them read at least one magazine weekly . |
| 21 | You e mentioned earlier on that people received er food parcels ? |
| 22 | The view was that people ordered their affairs on the basis of their contractual liability and to allow a third party to sue in tort would upset this arrangement . |
| 23 | It created this mushroom kind of thing that people stared at . |
| 24 | The levels were so heavy that people left Chilperic 's kingdom in order to avoid the taxes . |
| 25 | Most of us , as people who live in this world , are interested in our environment , and even if not young we certainly grow to appreciate it and to learn a bit about flowers and the way animals live and work in our garden and watching David Attenborough on television and erm we have a genuine interest because as part of this world we know it and come to understand it , and probably feel , therefore , if even if you 're not a biology specialist , which you certainly do n't have to be by any means , when a child asks a question about , you know , ‘ where do the flies go in winter ? ’ and ‘ why 's the hamster gone to sleep for three months ? ’ we feel more capable of answering it because we 're closer to it ourselves and those are the sorts of questions that people told us . |
| 26 | Most of us , as people who live in this world , are interested in our environment , and even if not young we certainly grow to appreciate it and to learn a bit about flowers and the way animals live and work in our garden and watching David Attenborough on television and erm we have a genuine interest because as part of this world we know it and come to understand it , and probably feel , therefore , if even if you 're not a biology specialist , which you certainly do n't have to be by any means , when a child asks a question about , you know , ‘ where do the flies go in winter ? ’ and ‘ why 's the hamster gone to sleep for three months ? ’ we feel more capable of answering it because we 're closer to it ourselves and those are the sorts of questions that people told us . |
| 27 | Suddenly , great guffaws of laughter that went on and on broke the silence , so much so that people began to stretch forward to see who they were coming from . |
| 28 | This information fits logically with other known factors which occurred at about the time that people began this transition , observed Harris , including spreading village life and a rapid increase in the human population . |
| 29 | Before the match the Aussies had established such a reputation that people began to believe they were unbeatable . |
| 30 | It was only when he plunged , wallet-first , into the great post-war building wave that people began to take notice . |