Example sentences of "that [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Early on , it was thought that plumes came from a chemically unprocessed , or primitive , mantle reservoir . |
| 32 | Their strength has been that recruits came to them already vetted and character-tested through membership of a church or Orange lodge . |
| 33 | I wondered where all that confetti came from ; knowing Mum I guessed she must have supplied it , but none of us children were given any . |
| 34 | Eva knew from her conversations with the villagers the high hopes that parents had for their children . |
| 35 | Well I I thought , that functions came into it , I must say . |
| 36 | Although nobody ever remarked upon the fact , it was tacitly acknowledged now that Nails slept with Firelight ; he had been discovered by them all at one time or another early in the morning still asleep . |
| 37 | The spectre of quotas was the reason that businessmen gave for opposing the civil-rights bill the president vetoed last October . |
| 38 | It also states that the findings do not support or detract from the Gardner report in 1990 , which found that cancers occurred in children whose fathers had been exposed to high levels of radiation before the child was conceived . |
| 39 | The most important element was the difficulty that reformers had in distinguishing between their desire to protect the young girls who were the objects of their concern and their desire to control them . |
| 40 | This was a reflection , I thought , of the marginal impact that blacks had on the lives of the characters in the work as well as the creative imagination of the author . |
| 41 | The general view , extending to some members of the RCM , held that refugees belonged to the lower orders , and that no amount of hard work or intellectual promise on their part could alter their self-evident assumption . |
| 42 | The case was listed as ‘ for mention ’ at an Old Bailey court but the judge apologised and said that defendants appeared before him because of an administrative error . |
| 43 | The table shows the number of mornings and afternoons that winds blew at various strengths over a 14 day period . |
| 44 | Until the mid or even the late 1950s these comparisons were made mainly in a discrete way in the belief that advantages shifted from time to time between one country and another [ Postan , 1967 ] . |
| 45 | The presence of the provision , however , suggests that kadis had in practice been making their way back into the medrese stream , though it may well never have been intended that they should do so . |
| 46 | Quite apart from my constant wonder at how crews withstood the enormous pressures about this period ( and that was the early part of 1943 whilst we were learning our craft , or the art , of Pathfinding ) was the great belief that crews had in themselves . |
| 47 | It is true that elephants existed at that time in the extreme south of China , but the fact that Fu Hao 's cup was studded with turquoise points to India as a possible source . |
| 48 | Figures out yesterday from the Government 's Central Statistical Office show that banks took in £60m more in repayments than they lent out . |
| 49 | The combination of vertical and group ties was such that individuals tended to be viewed by others not as individuals , but as group members , and a network of reciprocal obligations and feelings between group members was the key to the maintenance of social order . |
| 50 | The teachers said that ghosts looked like people with bed-sheets over their heads , and that witches all had cats and flew about on broomsticks . |
| 51 | But in fact Brooke-Rose was learning to re-use her talents to new ends , one of which was precisely the readerly frustration that reviewers complained of . |
| 52 | From the seventeenth century onwards , attempts were made to create artificial pools with trapping systems , but it was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that ideas became at all sophisticated . |
| 53 | It is now clear that hominoids emerged in East Africa , presumably showing behaviour similar to but diverging from that of other ape-like creatures . |
| 54 | The pictures that curators tried for decades to coax or pry off the Barnes 's walls will also travel to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and then to the Museum of Western Art in Tokyo . |
| 55 | The CML disputed that lenders had in recent years relied on the availability of cover under the Compensation and Indemnity Funds to relax their own business practices , and claimed that lenders were largely responding to public demands for more streamlined conveyancing procedures . |
| 56 | This assumption that films had to be bland to be entertaining , and refusal to acknowledge that movies could usefully enable audiences to deal with fears and nightmares , went along with an unwillingness to acknowledge that audience tastes and sensitivities were being shifted by television . |
| 57 | Supporters of the regulation , which included the UK , claimed that alternatives existed for every whale product . |
| 58 | The group discussions showed that Asians tended to be well informed about credit — at least as well as white people generally — and to have no real difficulties in using it . |
| 59 | Marcovic on May 8 issued a statement to the Federal Executive Council asserting that conditions had to be created to allow the army to carry out its constitutional and legal function of defending frontiers and halting inter-ethnic clashes . |
| 60 | The telephone was in the hall because Dorothy had said that telephones had to be in halls ; it occurred to Helen that there was no longer any reason for this to be so . |