Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even th your chief supporter , the T N A , on September the nineteenth agreed that it was far better , it was far better to use the untapped human resource than to load the ca th the cost on to the community charge payer . |
| 2 | Of the 23 disabled professionals who had been accepted for training as disabled people , eight reported that their entry qualifications were better than average , and five thought that this had been a major factor in their acceptance for training . |
| 3 | A few admitted that there had been excesses . |
| 4 | The Alliance for Justice , a liberal group which was in the forefront of the campaign to prevent the 1987 confirmation of Justice Robert Bork , on July 30 announced that it would oppose the confirmation . |
| 5 | Some realized that their first year savings were intrinsically ‘ once only ’ : ‘ We ca n't go generic every year , ’ said one lead clinician . |
| 6 | He refused and Universal countered that they would merely give it a limited showing . |
| 7 | But now It had changed ‘ There were ideological arguments amongst the existing staff ’ , Williams remembers , ‘ some argued that we should have allowed them to continue , to take over . |
| 8 | They participated more fully in the intellectual and political life of their time — some argued that they participated too much — and reflected their society 's values , again , perhaps , too much if the criticisms of the ‘ social gospel ’ were accepted . |
| 9 | However , some argued that it would be difficult to include the voluntary and direct grant colleges in such a body and that national planning would thereby be more complex . |
| 10 | Some argued that it was a druidical sacrificial place of worship ; others that it was a gigantic cosmic clock . |
| 11 | In addition the Czechoslovak Finance Minister , Vaclav Klaus , on March 22 announced that his country was withdrawing from three multilateral agreements , the most important of which was an exchange-rate agreement governing trade between COMECON countries . |
| 12 | Japan on Jan. 22 announced that it had approved the export of 27 tonnes of surgical anaesthetics . |
| 13 | Turning down a request to support a US$22,000,000 telecommunications project , the Norwegian government on Aug. 22 announced that it would refuse Malawian requests for economic development aid as a result of continuing allegations of human rights abuses [ for Norwegian attitude towards Namibia see p. 39038 ] . |
| 14 | There were some who hoped and half expected that he would never get there , and indeed , fought viciously to prevent it . |
| 15 | He had done no regular television work since appearing as Byron in the mid-Sixties , but a BBC producer who saw him on stage in No Sex , Please — We 're British realized that he was perfect for the lead role in a script submitted to him by a new TV comedy writer , Raymond Allen . |
| 16 | One woman told her that " the men get the more experienced and difficult work " , while another reported that she thought " the work very pleasant and suitable for women … but has sometimes found working with small type to be a slight strain on her eyesight " . |
| 17 | This demonstrated that I was not yet a legionnaire as I had not been awarded my white képi , and as such was still an ‘ engagé volontaire ’ or recruit ; it went on to say that I had one month 's service in the Legion , and that I was part of the Squadron commanded by Capitaine Duransoy , in the section of Sergeant Major Barlerin of the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment . |
| 18 | At the Feb. 27 Országgyüles session , one representative called for seats in parliament for minorities , and another proposed that there should also be church representation . |
| 19 | One mentioned her skill at communicating with patients who had had a tracheostomy and another found that she could lip-read patients when nobody else could understand them . |
| 20 | Stirling felt this inferred that he had loosely prattled at a cocktail party , whereas the gatherings referred to were private dinner parties . |
| 21 | Even then , some found that they had to drop out . |
| 22 | The fact that some believed that their teaching programme would not differ greatly even if such examinations were abolished seems to suggest that the GCSE syllabuses may be moving in the right direction , and present fewer conflicts with the way arts teachers normally operate . |
| 23 | It used to be thought that , when Offa was styled on occasion in the charters of the period rex Anglorum , this signified that he aspired to lordship over all the Anglo-Saxons or at least to make himself the only king south of the Humber . |
| 24 | Few believed that they could be transformed to fulfil the goals of ‘ modern ’ care . |
| 25 | Palestine was still an all-Arab question and few believed that it would be recovered save through the united endeavours of the Arab states . |
| 26 | This stipulated that they had to have no less than 100,000 members " with the signature and number of the election list for each one of them " . |
| 27 | The process begun under Edward I was continued in July 1333 when , at Halidon Hill , outside Berwick , the English showed that they had learned to coordinate the use of ‘ traditional ’ cavalry with the ‘ new ’ archer force , the combination on this occasion being that of archers and dismounted men-at-arms drawn up in a defensive position which showed what successes a measure of flexibility could bring to an army led by men willing to experiment . |
| 28 | There seems little doubt that recruitment is now more imaginative , and the data in Chapter 2 showed that there is indeed some change in the volunteer body , yet there are still clear patterns that appear difficult to shift . |
| 29 | Long thought to be a mystery , Coade stone is now known to be a ceramic body , and the British Museum research laboratory 's analysis in 1985 showed that it was a form of stoneware so resistant to the weather that it is as precise today as when it was originally made . |
| 30 | Some were eating and there was always the chance when this happened that they might put something into the Cages for the eagles . |