Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nibs McGovern met that train every day with his trolley to pick up the papers and the Boland loaves that the shops got for special customers . |
| 2 | After the Tower Report was published in February 1987 , and the PROF notes revealed that had passed by computer between the characters , the basement became home to a band of five-o'clock-shadowed Boy Scouts delighting in their own secrecy . |
| 3 | The taxpayer argued that to rely on the substantial omissions from Mr Slade 's tax return as grounds for investigating Mr Kempton 's tax affairs was to imply guilt by association . |
| 4 | Opponents argued that teaching other languages , especially those spoken at home , would impede the ability of children to speak and write English . |
| 5 | That ingrained courage , the belief that he must continue to fight on — the ability to fool himself into thinking that he could fight on — was all that was left to Tubby , and Colonel Windsor realised that to take it away from him could precipitate the final breakdown . |
| 6 | Plato argued that to know yourself was the very essence of knowledge . |
| 7 | All authorities agreed that adding the substance to water was the best way to limit the daily dosage . |
| 8 | At the subsequent AGM of the Alliance , Charles Ward argued that following the electoral truce of the war years conscientiously observed by the Alliance but not its opponents , the organisation had made up lost ground through steady educative work , and was now able ‘ to get in closer touch with the people ’ ( SE 12 February 21 ) . |
| 9 | It would be inappropriate if the COB Rules regulated that exempted business merely because the firm was a member of SFA for other activities . |
| 10 | The 1981 census found that compared with the national average of 14% , inner urban areas have particularly heavy concentrations of lone parent families . |
| 11 | 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 .. |
| 12 | As with Auer 's lace , the verisimilitude was striking and The Times reported that touch alone could convince the beholder that the minutely detailed weeds with their infinitely varied tints were not actual specimens from the sea shore.2 |
| 13 | As anti-pylons campaigners grilled the National Grid during the second week of the Northallerton hearing , an expert witness agreed that burying cables would eliminate the field . |
| 14 | De Candolle realized that to explain the existence of these provinces would require naturalists to tackle the question of the actual origin of species , although at this point he thought the matter was beyond the scope of scientific investigation . |
| 15 | In the 1830s , the British geologist Charles Lyell argued that to establish geology as a rigorous science , it had to be assumed that the forces that had sculpted the earth 's surface in the past were identical , both in kind and intensity , to those acting now . |
| 16 | Liberal Democrat supporters shared that view by about 4 : 1 . |
| 17 | The following month , however , the President announced that plans for a multiparty system were to be implemented and that elections would be held in February 1991 . |
| 18 | Belatedly , Manville realized that going in cold , straight to the top , had been a serious tactical error . |
| 19 | OSF admitted that calls from big industry players such as Novell Inc , who 've shied away from committing to DCE until now , persuaded the organisation to reconsider its pricing policy ( UX No 424 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Journalists reported that forces loyal to General Noriega were holding the northern border regions of Panama . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 23 | Eddie Polland was the winner of the card and pencil contest with a four rounds total of 290 but a year later Barry Brennan bettered that score by nine shots . |
| 24 | The Freight Transport Association claimed that raising the weight limit to 44 tonnes for all vehicles would have taken more heavy lorries off the road , reduced carbon dioxide emissions and saved the road haulage industry millions of pounds . |
| 25 | WHILE the Ipswich fans taunted ‘ You 're going down with the Arsenal ’ , Town star John Wark predicted that troubled Manchester United could still walk off with the first Premier League Championship . |
| 26 | Ertl showed that evoked potentials on the EEG showed shorter latency and greater amplitude for high IQ subjects than for low IQ subjects , In recent years this approach has been broadened and improved by the Hendricksons , and we now have physiological measures on the EEG evoked potential which correlate as highly with typical IQ tests as one of these IQ tests correlates with another ! |
| 27 | The Head of Department replied that to do so might be counterproductive in terms of artistic creativity and ultimately counter to the spirit of ‘ Art ’ . |
| 28 | Finally an interesting result of research showed that feeding carp neat amino acids could reduce growth and see amino acids excreted . |
| 29 | Our study showed that constipated children <2 years of age responded better to treatment than children >2 years of age , supporting the conclusion by Clayden that treatment should be given early to prevent development of severe constipation or faecal soiling , or both . |
| 30 | A French study showed that nicotinamide , a member of the B-complex of vitamins that prevents the disease pellagra in man ( see Chapter 13 ) , had some activity against the development of leprosy in rodents . |