Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] that [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lesser folk were aggrieved by the foresters ' interference with their rights of common in the Forest ; the Forest officers for their part reported that privileges they claimed had no warrant . |
| 2 | A recent study revealed that children who smoke are 3 times more likely to have time off school [ 10 ] . |
| 3 | The same study found that people who read a daily paper were more likely to watch the news on TV than people who did not . |
| 4 | My research found that managers who wanted to innovate , or try something new , almost invariably needed more resources , information , and support than they had . |
| 5 | Undoubtedly the succession was an important issue ; the terms Whig and Tory had been coined in the first place to describe different sides taken during the Exclusion controversy , whilst for a long time after the Glorious Revolution Whigs continued to be able to embarrass the Tories by alleging that their attachment to the divine-right , hereditary succession meant that deep-down they were Jacobite sympathisers . |
| 6 | Dr Michael Moore of Glasgow University showed that mothers who drank water with a high lead level were twice as likely to have mentally retarded babies ; 61 per cent of mothers involved in stillbirths or whose foetuses were abnormal had placental lead levels over 1.5 ppm whereas only 7 per cent of those with normal babies had such high lead levels . |
| 7 | The devaluation of the pound sterling meant that productions which came from overseas — inevitably of great significance for such an international event — would cost about 25 per cent more . |
| 8 | The former solicitor general said that woman who bring false charges should be named . |
| 9 | The court heard that Lucy who is thirty three has suffered a serious and intractable illness for thirteen years . |
| 10 | But the policeman knew that people who break windows do not stop to talk to policemen . |
| 11 | They claimed that the report showed that women who attended Bristol were twice as likely to die as women who did not . |
| 12 | Quinton and Rutter 's ( 1983 ) study of girls raised in care showed that girls who were ‘ planners ’ in other aspects of their lives were considerably less likely to become pregnant . |
| 13 | Paragraph 30 of the statement of claim in its original form pleaded that investors who had purchased Euramco shares had suffered loss as a result of the breaches of the Act by Pantell S.A. in which the solicitors had been knowingly concerned . |
| 14 | On Nov. 13 Moi had warned foreign diplomats to stay away from the rally , and a Foreign Ministry official said that diplomats who attended the rally " would be violating international conventions on diplomacy " . |
| 15 | The Butterley Company found that men whose wives could not find work were less likely to stay at Ollerton , and so planned the building of factories in the village which would ensure both that men were not lost and that family incomes could be supplemented . |
| 16 | The left argued that children who speak dialect at home could not be expected to speak Standard English , which they regarded as middle class , and that it was improper to make this an essential attainment target in a national curriculum . |