Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | On the one hand , business leaders agreed that something had to be done to the health-care system because the cost of covering their workers was eroding their profits . |
| 32 | Several speakers agreed that there seemed to be a great waste of resources in the whole training area . |
| 33 | We agreed that there needs to be increased participation and representation of Caribbean peoples , their needs and perspectives . |
| 34 | They all agreed that she fell off the bridge . |
| 35 | He recommended that I go to a hospital and see a psychiatrist . |
| 36 | The judge gave Vernage five life sentences and recommended that he serve at least 25 years . |
| 37 | The kangaroo court decided the punishment must fit the crime and ruled that he stay in his cell during the jailhouse comedy . |
| 38 | ‘ The club realised that something had to be done . |
| 39 | She realised that he had to be the root of her insecurities , of her inability to believe that anyone could ever love her in return . |
| 40 | Then her anger erupted , her hand flashed upwards and she had delivered a stinging slap to his left cheek before she even realised that she intended to . |
| 41 | Everything about him , from the sleek black head to the jutting strength of his jawline , to the broad , strong , self-satisfied bulk of him at ease in the chair , announced that he knew in the fibre of his being that his touch was anything but abhorrent to her . |
| 42 | Zen gulped down the rest of his coffee and announced that he had to be going . |
| 43 | Bernard announced that he wished to be known as an uncle , not a grandfather . |
| 44 | Credit for forcing a decision on this issue goes to Rudi Fuchs , director of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague , who caused a fierce public discussion when he announced that he wanted to deaccession two Picassos in his collection in order to create a fund with which he could supplement his annual acquisitions budget and concentrate more on collecting contemporary art ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 14 , January 1992 , p. 3 ) . |
| 45 | Cameron , impressed but evidently rather baffled , minuted that he approved of the proposals and found them ‘ entirely in accord with what we wanted and what I thought was being practised ’ . |
| 46 | Two Afghans , among several arrested trying to cross the border , ‘ admitted that they belonged to an intelligence group entrusted with the organisation of an underground anti-Soviet movement in Tadjikistan , whose purpose was to turn the republic into an Islamic state ’ . |
| 47 | Two Afghans , among several arrested trying to cross the border , ‘ admitted that they belonged to an intelligence group entrusted with the organisation of an underground anti-Soviet movement in Tadjikistan , whose purpose was to turn the republic into an Islamic state ’ . |
| 48 | Doone with slight reluctance admitted that there seemed to be marble stuck to the underside of one more floorboard on each side of the hole . |
| 49 | Above all , you asked that we continue to ‘ tell it like it is . ’ |
| 50 | It asked that they turn in their " heavy and medium-calibre weapons and ammunition " no later than April 30 . |
| 51 | The executives agreed and asked that I act as the facilitator . |
| 52 | Further research revealed that what had at first appeared to be a bizarre anomaly was in fact a cultural feature shared by many different Indian peoples . |
| 53 | Consultations with other doctors in Britain suggested that something like this format may well have been fairly common in the past with the very poorest patients , while modern studies of casualty departments revealed that something approximating to it was still used with the most stigmatised of patients . |
| 54 | The Irish star , who as a child was battered by her mother , revealed that she went to a psychiatrist to sort out her problems . |
| 55 | To that representative of the religious élite who by his bland statement , ‘ How happy are those who will sit down at the feast in the Kingdom of God ! , ’ revealed that he counted on a reserved seat , our Lord told the parable of the Great Feast . |
| 56 | His medical went well until he revealed that he suffered from asthma and David pointed out to him that he would never cope with that particular job . |
| 57 | She kept a secret diary which revealed that he spoke on average 3.5 words a day , she told a divorce judge . |
| 58 | Another alternative model for community economic development was raised , and the suggestion made that there needed to be consideration of and use of the public sector as a vehicle for community businesses servicing the Royal Victoria Hospital complex . |
| 59 | Heterosexual feminists argued that we had to be taken seriously as women , and if the media got away with the label of lesbians , then ‘ the women out there ’ would be alienated . |
| 60 | He argued that they consisted of a material substance , the ‘ germ plasm ’ , which transmitted characters from parents to offspring via the nucleus of the egg and sperm cells . |