Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd have them all on if I needed a confidence boost , or just for the sheer enjoyment of the sound , but it was fundamentally one AC30 that made that noise . |
| 2 | Paris-based software and computer services company Generale de Service Informatique SA , or GSI , as it is better known , reported 1992 revenues up 8% to the equivalent of $460m , a rate of increase only half of that registered that year . |
| 3 | Senior officials of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) meeting in Finland on May 12 agreed that consent from the FRY was not needed to approve decisions on Yugoslavia and its former republics [ for April CSCE meeting on FRY see p. 38848 ] . |
| 4 | Taking a share of the profits : Prior to s. 2(3) of the Partnership Act 1890 , the courts had decided that if a person took any share in the profits of a business this made that person a partner . |
| 5 | I do n't know , I do n't know , although I ought to warn you that another way of interpreting the Greek would be , but now a man wishes to be another approached that man . |
| 6 | This recalled that sound broadcasting fell within the state monopoly of telecommunications , discharged by the PTT . |
| 7 | Some reasoned that niceness and forgivingness were evidently winning qualities , and they accordingly submitted nice , forgiving strategies . |
| 8 | One sole practitioner argued that ‘ private clients must take the risk of a business default by a solicitor as they must with any other business ’ ; whilst another commented that capping would be justified ‘ now that solicitors have been turned into a trade with the main considerations being commercial ’ . |
| 9 | This indicated that transinstitutionalization might be taking place . |
| 10 | Another decided that tiv must mean ‘ just a tiny bit ’ and so added a teaspoon of water , compared to half a glass for more , and so on ( Clark , unpublished data ) . |
| 11 | A few interpreted that adjective as describing the dream home which was far beyond their present means to run , let alone acquire , but did so none the less with the aid of a mortgage from the friendly building society office in the High Street . |
| 12 | Accordingly , this meant that market relations , especially those between ‘ town and country ’ must be continued , even though in a modified form . |
| 13 | This meant that reimbursement again required an individual application to the National Board of Health . |
| 14 | The French learned that lesson in Paris where footing it in a queue suffering at least a little bit for art is required before access to the Winged Victory of Samothrace or ‘ The artist 's studio ’ by Gustave Courbet . |
| 15 | er , this had that night er but , one , in one bit it said he said that night they di fa found that Melissico was n't enjoyed talking to them long af till long after the stars came out . |
| 16 | Some hoped that education would in time solve the problem . |
| 17 | The account of habituation offered in Chapter 2 held that dishabituation would occur after a retention interval when the input failed to match the ( partly forgotten ) representation of the stimulus — when the subject failed to recognize the test stimulus . |
| 18 | A survey by the Confederation of British Industry in 1986 estimated that absence from work cost British industry at least £5 billion . |
| 19 | Nothing eventful occurred that night , and as Hugh had not returned , and as a careful search discovered no trace of Marian and Allen , it was decided to move on with every precaution into territory which with every yard became potentially more hostile . |
| 20 | Mrs Beattie , 37 , said : ‘ When I find a man who can recall the colour of a lounge carpet in the third house of six visited that day , then I will happily interview him . |
| 21 | The sad thing is that if all the OAPs and others who genuinely ca n't afford the extra withheld that portion of their poll tax , my God , would n't we have been pounced on as lawbreakers and worse and dealt with ten times faster than the poll tax rebels who withhold purely for so-called political reasons . |
| 22 | An analysis of the half-year accounts and projections for the end of 1991 indicated that LAB 's expenditure for the year would be somewhat over budget , due entirely to costs hitherto outside it control . |
| 23 | Whether the accused had that intent had to be left to the jury . |
| 24 | In Bryson [ 1985 ] Crim LR 669 ( CA ) , it was decided that the fact that harm was probable did not mean that the accused intended that harm . |
| 25 | A Press Trust of India ( PTI ) report on Feb. 21 claimed that Congress ( I ) had threatened to withdraw its support for the government unless the five ministers were removed . |
| 26 | Vaclav Klaus , the federal Finance Minister , on July 17 announced that petrol prices were to rise by 50 per cent , due to an unexpected cut in Soviet oil deliveries . |
| 27 | The Social Secretary thanked Mr and Mrs Preshous for a very informative presentation and all agreed that time had run out all too quickly . |
| 28 | If we all shared that attitude , we would undoubtedly still travel in steam trains , and passengers would be covered in soot . |
| 29 | After all , Pound had married England — not figuratively , but literally , in the person of Dorothy Shakespear ; and Ben Hecht in 1918 reported that Pound was ‘ a doting monogamist ’ . |
| 30 | The Madrid newspaper El País of Feb. 17 reported that evidence had been uncovered of a 1985 plot by army officers to murder the king and overthrow the elected government . |