Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [vb past] that " in BNC.

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1 During the trial , Lord Maclean heard a taped confession where MacIver admitted that he suggested which lorry to hijack and drove to Inverness a week before the robbery to check the vehicle 's routine .
2 Sir Derek Rayner ( now Lord Rayner ) from Marks & Spencer stated that the reviews aimed to :
3 CIMA suggested that the proposals should be included in Cadbury 's code of best practice , while Coopers & Lybrand thought that a Stock Exchange requirement would not work and added that ‘ it could not see why the OFR could not in principle be a Financial Reporting Standard ’ .
4 American reviewers also found evidence of fraud and misrepresentation in peer review assessments ( Crawford & Stucki ) , in similar conditions to those already commented on in the UFC Report , and , in keeping with their greater use of information technology , Crawford & Stucki found that online communications and fax machines were contributory factors .
5 In their 1968 study of the frequency of use of British scientific journals , as measured by requests to the British Library , Martyn & Gilchrist found that Nature was the highest ranked journal , and the highest ranked earth science journal was Journal of Petrology ( ranking one hundred and fifteenth ) .
6 Ernst & Young thought that the APB had not given enough weight to the collateral changes which would be required , the timescale involved in the changes , and the very substantial costs which would arise .
7 Some of the most serious allegations of child torture concerned South Africa , where Koojimaans reported that " 80 to 90 per cent of children detained under State of Emergency regulations over the past five years had alleged being tortured in detention " .
8 A recent survey by stockbrokers UBS Phillips & Drew calculated that in an average year , someone with a mortgage would pay £540 less to live in a £65,000 home than a person paying a market rent .
9 At the hearing of this motion counsel for Smith & Jones argued that as there was a genuine dispute as to the sum of £750 , it was an abuse of the process of the court to let the winding-up petition continue .
10 Thus when Fletcher argued that England was in no danger from France at this time , or Trenchard reasoned that , should war occur , England 's role should be " to undertake the Sea " , both were making what were essentially Tory points .
11 Moed & Vriens found that more than 9% of the 4500 papers in their study had at least one discrepancy in their citations .
12 On his return to duty , and the award of a DSO , he was ordered to Bomber Command where Harris confirmed that he was to command the Pathfinder Force .
13 In a similar study , Lawani & Bayer found that 14% of the highly rated papers in their study of cancer research were not highly rated by peers , and that only 2.3% of their highly rated papers were never cited .
14 Conversation was easier now , and although Alison noticed that Carson managed to keep it centred around her life and background she no longer tried to push and probe .
15 Although Romulo denied that he had given such an unequivocal pledge , Ramos stated on Sept. 15 that he would not pursue the Philippine claim to sovereignty .
16 It leapt high , jaws snapping , body arced so that Trent thought that he would hear its spine snap .
17 It was shortly after his time at Oxford , on his first journey to the Continent , that Hobbes found that others were dissatisfied with scholasticism ; and we have already noted that an interest in method was characteristic of the seventeenth century .
18 Although Goldman said that the operation had showed ‘ steady improvement ’ and ‘ adequate growth ’ , he is , nonetheless , keen to broaden YBF 's customer base .
19 A small figure was seated beside the trainer and it was only when the two men got out of the car and walked briskly towards them that Kelly saw that it was Cy McCray .
20 Genscher told a news conference that Germany believed that Albania should be accepted into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) and the Council of Europe and should receive aid from the Group of 24 .
21 This was repulsed , though Than Tun claimed that they desired unity which was the wish of the masses : ‘ The Rightists of the AFPFL submitted to the Imperialists in the Nu — Attlee Treaty , now also they are doing the same in discarding the Communist Party . ’
22 At a news conference on Dec. 8 , Vellayati and Dumas reaffirmed their governments'commitment to recent UN resolutions on the Gulf crisis , although Vellayati added that Iran would not participate in any war against Iraq or another country in the region .
23 Although Richard claimed that he took this initiative in the hope of bringing about peace so that the crusade could get under way , his father objected strongly , presumably on the grounds that the general position of the Angevins would be weakened if they admitted the principle that their disputes could be settled in their overlord 's court .
24 It was not until 30 April , as disturbances mounted throughout India , that Irwin decided that he had no further option but to arrest Gandhi .
25 Nothing could be further from the truth than Kate Millett 's accusation that Freud believed that women 's destiny was a simple outcome of their biology .
26 At the root of the mixture of emotions that Kylie felt that day was the very real feat that despite the fame and fabulous wealth that might lie ahead of her , her future might not allow her to ever again be part of as precious and close a group of friends as she was during her Neighbours days .
27 In fact it seems more likely that Picasso felt that the Demoiselles as he decided to accept or leave it represented a truly astonishing challenge with which he himself must come to terms ; obviously if he had been dissatisfied with the look of the painting he would not have left it as it is , and it has been argued that the stylistic discrepancies within the painting are essential to its iconography , to the message which it is intended to convey .
28 It was reported last night in my local paper ‘ Irish Press ’ that Rocky stated that he did not want to leave Leeds and was prepared to wait his chance like everybody else .
29 The implication must be that Eadberht denied that he had previously taken holy orders and affirmed the legitimacy of his claim , but Archbishop Aethelheard fled and Christ Church , Canterbury , was probably sacked .
30 Although Bhutto stressed that Pakistan was not seeking military confrontation with India , she reiterated that her government would continue to be " steadfast " in its support for the right of self-determination by the people of Kashmir .
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