Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The autumn statement yesterday demonstrated that we have substantially increased in real terms — after inflation — the spending in each of the three areas that my hon. Friend mentioned . |
| 32 | ‘ We demonstrated that we have come a long way since our first game in Zimbabwe . |
| 33 | He clearly demonstrated that they formed their spores in sac-like structures known as asci , typical of the Ascomycetes . |
| 34 | The current generation of devices has already established a growing acceptance of electronic media among information users and demonstrated that they have a choice in the way they get access to the resources they need . |
| 35 | As long ago as 1893 , I.S. Leadam demonstrated that they did in fact enjoy the protection of the courts . |
| 36 | It was threatened again ( though Edward VIII made it plain that he would only comply if the Liberal government demonstrated that it had a popular mandate for abolition ) in 1909 . |
| 37 | The same was not true of the broader European Economic Community , which despite its wider brief demonstrated that it had both strength and flexibility . |
| 38 | Though the three major Allies — the United States , the Soviet Union , and Great Britain — were willing to concede this parity on occasion , the very act of conceding it demonstrated that it did not in reality exist . |
| 39 | Says Bartle : ‘ We demonstrated that you do n't need to spend a vast amount of money for advertising to work and be successful . |
| 40 | Today he made a humiliating climb down in the Commons and demonstrated that he 'd lost his political touch — that he did n't realise how upset the voters would be if he put 30,000 — going on 100,000 — people out of work . |
| 41 | Mr Brown demonstrated that he has already utterly mastered the use of the sound-bite to get a headline phrase into the news bulletins . |
| 42 | When I heard recently on the radio that he had been arrested in Tasmania the wild fancy occurred that someone had forgotten to de-miniaturise him and that he had finally worked his way through to Australia . |
| 43 | Secretly she exulted that he had the car . |
| 44 | The doctor arrived and after examining me pronounced that I had some sort of mystery virus , and there was nothing he could do for me . |
| 45 | Thomas Cook was one of the first entrepreneurs to see the huge possibilities of rail travel and in 1844 , after the success of his early excursions , he pronounced that he wanted ‘ railways for the millions ’ . |
| 46 | It helped that they believed in his faked war record and legends such as that the religious leader Gregorio Aglipay inserted a slither of wood into Marcos 's back before the Bataan campaign in 1942 , allegedly giving him magic powers . |
| 47 | When Xerox first embarked on benchmarking it helped that it had a Japanese partner , Fuji Xerox , that it could look to for information about Japanese practices . |
| 48 | In my case , I think it helped that I had a modest aptitude for football . |
| 49 | Lachman , who can now claim the distinction of selling his company twice and buying it back once , quipped that he has personally established a new executive benchmark , transactions per year ( TPY ) , having sold Interactive to SunSoft , Praxis to SunSelect , Interactive to Systemhouse and having bought back Lachman , all in the space of the last twelve months . |
| 50 | Indeed , Eoin O'Duffy , who led an Irish contingent to Spain to help Franco , maintained that they had gone to fight the battle of Christianity against Communism , a view which was confirmed for them by the Irish Dominican father , Revd Paul O' Sullivan when he said : |
| 51 | Here , however , lay the crux of the matter , for the King of Prussia and his government maintained that they had never been officially associated with Leopold , whose activities were purely personal , and that the King was concerned with the matter only as head of the House of Hohenzollern . |
| 52 | The prosecution alleged that they took part in a plan to offload cannabis resin at the Norfolk coast , the accused maintained that they had helped to load the cannabis on to the tug , but the drug was destined for Holland and not the UK . |
| 53 | The Staufer maintained that they accepted the magisterial primacy of the Roman Church — the pope 's power to approve and anoint the emperor — but they challenged the jurisdictional primacy , namely the pope 's claim to appoint the emperor . |
| 54 | Anthropologists , following Evans-Pritchard 's lead , have reacted against this way of seeing primitive , or non-literate , peoples , and maintained that they do not act as they do for the same reasons that neurotics act in Western society . |
| 55 | Such mishaps were bad omens , and though the townspeople maintained that they did not take the Wheel seriously they were happier when all went according to plan . |
| 56 | This was challenged by one of the defendants who maintained that she had never been on stage in a state of total nudity , as the police present maintained . |
| 57 | Roger , an art historian , had first gone to the Mansions as Margaret 's friend , and maintained that she had said : ‘ Of course I never read Ivy 's trash . ’ |
| 58 | Richards , a reformed alcoholic , was plagued by allegations that she had used marijuana and cocaine ; she maintained that she had used no " mood altering chemical " for the last 10 years , but refused to state whether she had ever used illegal drugs . |
| 59 | She had lived in the States for several years but she still retained her British accent , though she often maintained that she loathed England and would never return to it . |
| 60 | Mrs Maugham was a great shopper in large department stores , and she could not resist their sillier notions ; if anyone had accused her of extravagance , she would have roundly rebuffed the accusation as fantastic and perverse , and yet she must have spent many useless pounds in her pursuit of useful acquisitions Similarly , she always maintained that she hated clutter-clutter , implying , in her tone , the dense decorative drawing-room knick-knacks of Victorian England and yet clutter reigned in all her rooms . |