Example sentences of "that [adj] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman in her mid-fifties emerged from it and , despite the fact that hazel eyes smiled at her , Lucy thought she looked rather pale , almost as if she were feeling unwell . |
| 2 | This was a country where only 3% of the land could be used for agriculture but where farmers received considerable financial assistance from the government to ensure that rural communities continued to be viable . |
| 3 | This meant that reserve assets had to be at least 12½ per cent of eligible liabilities . |
| 4 | The congress was held behind closed doors , and the exclusion of foreign journalists and overseas political delegations encouraged speculation that political divisions existed between the party leadership and membership , represented by 1,800 delegates . |
| 5 | Diderot believed that political rights belonged to property-owners , and Voltaire similarly identified " the people " with the middle class . |
| 6 | In such a situation , it was inevitable that political disputes tended to be expressed in the language of Court versus Country rather than in terms of the old party ideologies — even if the use of such rhetoric was forced on people for tactical reasons , and a Tory who espoused Country arguments in order to make common cause with opposition Whigs still remained recognisably Tory at heart . |
| 7 | He suggested that Labour governments came to power only when there had been a radical change in the climate of opinion . |
| 8 | In particular , the rapid ossification of the Soviet hardline position in the East and the Cold War division which resulted from this meant that clear decisions had to be taken . |
| 9 | Dr Fisher has clearly demonstrated that the export of manufactures to Portugal was closely bound to their subsequent re-export from Lisbon to Brazil : " The business that English merchants drove to the English colonies in this period was in fact complemented by substantial indirect trades to the Iberian empires in America . " |
| 10 | Rivalry with France was one theme in the centuries of empire to come , but after the loss of Calais the English concentrated on capturing French colonies or in restraining French attempts to dominate Europe rather than on trying to make anything substantial out of the nominal claim to the French crown that English kings asserted until 1801 . |
| 11 | Nor was it only on the great party issues of the day that Whig–Tory divisions emerged in the House ; the same was true even on more mundane matters , where no great issue of party principle was at stake . |
| 12 | The accompanying ‘ Syllabus of errors ’ had deemed erroneous the belief that public institutions devoted to reaching literature and science should be exempt from the Church 's authority . |
| 13 | The AFP report also said that Ethiopian forces had on March 9 participated in the successful attack on the border town of Pochala ( held by the SPLA since 1985 ) . |
| 14 | But in a recent Nature article , David Schwartzman of Howard University , and Tyler Volk of New York University , maintain that primitive microbes staved off the greenhouse effect , so helping weathering ( where more carbon gets buried in surface soil ) by stabilizing the soil against erosion . |
| 15 | He warned the congress that old dogmas had to be abandoned and new principles adopted for the changing times . |
| 16 | On the current market situation Mr Peel noted that Old Masters continued to be the strongest area , although there had been a reduction in both size of sales and prices realised in some areas . |
| 17 | And , given the rather jaundiced view that civil servants had by then formed of the movie business , it is not surprising that they preferred to commend Rank for observing ‘ the normal standards of commercial efficiency and honesty , which have not so far been conspicuous within the film industry ’ than listen to the arguments presented by Palache that budget control on Rank 's film productions was inadequate . |
| 18 | The report maintained that human rights continued to be violated in the territories , and cited house demolitions , deportations and collective restrictions . |
| 19 | This suggests that human beings arrived on Earth more or less by accident , since no special feature marked off the Crustaceans as being ‘ fitter ’ in a Darwinian sense . |
| 20 | It was also partly in response to the effects of overaccumulation that deflationary policies led to decreased capacity utilization in the United States . |
| 21 | The discussion was not conclusive but views were expressed that , while there was no such obligation on the Central Authority , if it felt that good grounds existed for an appeal , it could properly act . |
| 22 | It was originally decreed that great economies had to be exercised in the provision of stations , which were to be mainly of wood . |
| 23 | This study does not , however , offer any support for the idea that diabetic patients looked after exclusively in primary care have worse glycaemic control and therefore a poorer prognosis . |
| 24 | Opposite : The restrictions on the blue-cars of Lytham St. Annes in Blackpool meant that considerable efforts had to be made to advertise the line . |
| 25 | Sarin et al found that gastric varices disappeared in 28% of patients with endoscopic obliteration of oesophageal varices while Terblanche et al reported the disappearance of all gastric varices after successful sclerotherapy . |
| 26 | As the fashionable trade came in so more thought had to be given to subject-matter and to technique and in America this meant that short films had to be replaced or shown in conjunction with multiple-reel films as already pioneered by European film-makers . |
| 27 | He suggested that tidal forces resulted in the lighter continental crust ‘ ploughing ’ through the substratum of denser crust underlaying the oceans . |
| 28 | Division lists for the Lords suggest that definable parties existed in the upper chamber , although the pattern here was slightly less pronounced than for the Commons . |
| 29 | The court heard that irate shoppers complained to trading standards officers after finding out the reductions were bogus . |
| 30 | Frankfurt : Prices fell sharply on inflation worries after news that wholesale prices surged by 1.1 per cent . |