Example sentences of "[vb past] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Somehow she doubted that preparing meals for the child and the husband featured very high on the agenda . |
| 32 | Several people mentioned that getting as far as the interview was the main problem . |
| 33 | Leonard avenged that reverse in New Orleans the following November in the notorious ‘ no mas ’ night of surrender which has haunted the Panamanian all the way to this bonanza . |
| 34 | It would be inappropriate if the COB Rules regulated that exempted business merely because the firm was a member of SFA for other activities . |
| 35 | TEENAGERS looking over Queen 's University today found that research there helped put a ferocious roar into Steven Spielberg 's Jurassic Park dinosaurs . |
| 36 | ‘ I found that delivering babies was exciting and a bit scary , but I noticed that the environment was not comfortable for women . |
| 37 | However , Johns found that translated Brazilian abstracts tend to follow textbook rules of grammar which favour ‘ consistent ’ use of tense and aspect . |
| 38 | He found that support mechanisms and institutional settings are not key factors affecting research advance . |
| 39 | The 1981 census found that compared with the national average of 14% , inner urban areas have particularly heavy concentrations of lone parent families . |
| 40 | The Framingham population cohort study found that compared with non-smokers , those who smoked had a lower rate of clinical gall bladder disease , a difference that reached borderline statistical significance . |
| 41 | And instead of finding it miserable and increasing the fear , we found that taking vigorous action to make the best of what we had made us feel proud . |
| 42 | Against this , some studies in the United States , where formal study of " civics " is more extensive than in Britain , found that taking such courses had little impact on political knowledge and attitudes . |
| 43 | Certainly there is plenty in the literature about using cobalt-60 sources for sterilisation and DoE researchers found that spent reactor fuel rods did the job quite effectively .. |
| 44 | He probably tried the door to the house , found that unlocked as well and picked up the hammer in case he was disturbed . ’ |
| 45 | This finding conflicts with those of Bransford and Johnson ( 1972 ) and Dooling and Mullett ( 1973 ) who found that providing information about the theme or context of a passage after it had been presented did not improve performance , and so concluded that such information only affected the organisation carried out when the passage was memorised . |
| 46 | He found that gazing at the CO 's moustache helped . |
| 47 | They found that allowing for the tax timing option ( as well as stochastic interest rates and different income and capital gains tax rates ) in the no-arbitrage condition resulted in the no-arbitrage prices of the S&P500 moving much closer to the actual prices for the period June 1982 to September 1982 than if no such adjustments were made to the no-arbitrage condition . |
| 48 | It found that had Costa Rica been consulted , its opinion would have been decisive , precisely the situation envisaged in 1858 . |
| 49 | He also found that moulding the right shape was more important than pecking up loose stuff , and that they would mould in a bean bag as well as in straw . |
| 50 | When he did , he found that to acknowledge these events in writing became a sort of therapy for him . |
| 51 | We found that adjusting for maternal smoking in pregnancy did not change the strength of the association between birth weight and lung function so that the effect of environment in utero on birth weight and subsequently on lung function may be independent of smoking in pregnancy . |
| 52 | Nevertheless , we soon found that producing a publication of the required length , and assembling a representative group of writers , was no easy task . |
| 53 | She found that thought warming and rather appealing . |
| 54 | Chan et al found that raised alcohol consumption was associated with hypercapnic respiratory failure in bronchitis patients . |
| 55 | ( 1986 ) and Vernon and Fruin ( 1986 ) all found that field social workers , and sometimes residential workers , associated the provision of care for children and young people with failure , and thought that good social work practice meant avoiding the use of care , especially residential care . |
| 56 | They found that field social workers were on the whole critical of the residential experience . |
| 57 | She found that establishing her own goals based on her needs made studying that much easier and gave a purpose to the activities and assignments she was asked to do on the course . |
| 58 | She tried looking out of the window to the hospital 's green lawns and the tall eucalypts that stood motionless against a gloriously blue August sky , but found that looking away seemed too impolite . |
| 59 | They found that moving traps were indeed consuming energy — cells used up 29 per cent of their ATP in the three seconds of closure , Venus fly-traps clamp down on their prey as a result of irreversible cell expansion , which is itself caused by the activation of wall loosening enzymes by a lowered p H in the cell wall . |
| 60 | The son of a one-time Manchester United football player and star of too many ordinary British films like Pussycat , Pussycat , I Love You and Yesterday 's Hero , found that moving to America paid off , even if it was only in numerous glossy TV mini-series and soaps like Dallas . |