Example sentences of "[vb past] that [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He heard the chatter of Maude Frobisher 's typewriter in the outer office , the pattern beat that indicated that she had steam up , and with a slight secretiveness he loosened his collar and pulled down his tie and wiped a smear of the vaseline across the offending skin .
2 It transpired that Hush Puppies were cornmeal fritters , seasoned with eggs and beer , and very tasty .
3 He dismissed that fear instantly , because there was no sign of an army 's passing .
4 He dismissed that thought , impatiently .
5 I I was hoping for something different this year and for a budget that erm er proposed that did n't depend on er us taking far more from reserves than any other party .
6 Many years ago Fathalla proposed that repeated minor trauma to ovarian epithelium caused by ‘ incessant ovulation ’ increased the risk of cancer .
7 Mossad proposed that to conceal the plan they would send TOW missiles to Iran from their own stocks and America would ship them replenishments .
8 The revision proposed that works councils should be set up in order to vest in the workers a measure of control as against the bureaucratic command of the central planning authority .
9 The NUT , reporting to the Younger Committee on Privacy in 1972 , proposed that reports about a child 's misbehaviour should be kept from parents and that information on the pupil or his home background ‘ which might be gleaned from hearsay or possibly based on malicious gossip ’ should not be kept on a permanent record .
10 Professor Paolo Rovesti , Director of the Instituto Derivati Vegatali in Milan , demonstrated that smelling oils of certain plants can relieve anxiety states and depression .
11 Oliver David and others demonstrated that penicillamine , a chelating agent whose main therapeutic action concerns its effect in increasing the loss of lead from the body , produced a curative effect on hyperactivity in children , comparable with that of methlyphenidate .
12 Another way of putting this would be to say that Althusser demonstrated that according to the protocols of conventional logic , history is impossible .
13 In addition to demonstrating the ease with which rats substitute one movement for another in reaching their goal he also demonstrated that cutting the nerve fibres that join the visual to the motor cortex does not interfere with associative learning , as Pavlov had predicted it would .
14 Study 1 demonstrated that risk ratings were positively correlated with the time spent at a junction and the number of vehicles visible at a junction .
15 The February sales demonstrated that Pop Art is the school with the big problem , Lichtenstein , Warhol , Wesselman and others having soared in 1988–90 on Japanese and Swedish buying .
16 She had been only 13 years old when the event occurred that shattered her world .
17 So in 1973 Andy decided to try and qualify for the Open at Royal Troon — and it was here that an incident occurred that changed his career .
18 Two events occurred that ensured , for the time being at least , no such a change in Congressional attitudes would occur .
19 In addition he has stressed the crankish nature of many of its supporters and the fact that it drew that support from only a very small section of the working class — even though they may have formed a significant proportion of the BUF 's small membership of between 5,000 and 40,000 members throughout the 1930s .
20 The treaty , covering the external aspects of German unification , complemented that signed by the two German states on Aug. 31 [ see p. 37661 ] and removed the last major obstacle to unification on Oct. 3 , 1990 .
21 He designed that look for Susan Foreman , and indeed arranged to open his shop specially for me one evening so I could be ready for the production day next morning .
22 I stood in that upper gallery where I first saw Dana and he cast that look upon me which was to make me his slave .
23 Just as the regime had decided , by 1859 , to make land available to serfs ( not merely to emancipate them ) , so now it grasped that strengthening the centre 's authority in the countryside ran counter to the policy of increasing the freedom of its subjects .
24 Undoubtedly influenced by the theology taught at Paris by the end of the twelfth century , he maintained that unchaste behaviour by the priest did not invalidate his orders .
25 He also maintained that increases in public expenditure would lead to increased taxation and higher unemployment .
26 Statements in favour of the ‘ freedom of the press ’ and the ‘ freedom to publish ’ — from Milton 's Areopagitica of 1644 onwards — were , therefore , intended as replies to those who maintained that granting the press its freedom would pose threats to the stability of the state .
27 The Unitarian minister and editor Edwin Chapman underlined that desire to overcome separation when in his thanksgiving sermon on Emancipation Day in 1834 he proclaimed that it was the Christian principle evinced by all the sects and parties which had brought on the victory .
28 Woe betide anyone who moved that bar forward without first indenting on stores .
29 He let that rest a while , then , ‘ Where were you ? ’
30 ‘ Do you remember , ’ a typical conversation might begin , ‘ that time back in December of '59 when Waimea was unrideable and Greg Noll caught that wave that must have been thirty-foot plus ? ’
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