Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb past] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas the prisoners were beginning to retreat into apathy by the second day , many of the guards quickly showed that they enjoyed the power they had , and began to abuse it . |
| 2 | Government textbooks continue to depict women in the caring roles ' in society and a study carried out in Central American schools clearly showed that a " lack of aspiration " among young women is related to the limited employment possibilities open to them . |
| 3 | Assay of fractions of pooled and lyophilised urine from the second APGPR immunoreactivity peak from one of the normal male subjects clearly showed that the immunoreactive signal coeluted with synthetic APGPR suggesting that the immunoreactive peak was principally a result of the native peptide ( Fig 5A ) . |
| 4 | Despite his phenomenal energy the sheer size of his dominions inevitably meant that it could be months or even years before he was free to deal with a distant crisis or give his officials the support they needed against a major local potentate . |
| 5 | Although exporters fairly complained that this made their goods less competitive in price , it helped to lower the cost of imports and thus the prices of foreign goods sold in Britain . |
| 6 | John Monk of Books Etc felt that the hotlines did no work as well as in previous years . |
| 7 | His supporters subsequently asserted that the Browns had passed Common 's patterns to McCormick , but there is no evidence that the American , working in an isolated part of Virginia from 1831 , ever encountered them before his reaper improvements of ten years later . |
| 8 | An arson attack gutted the Bucharest offices of the Hungarian state airline ( Malev ) on March 25 as crowds outside protested that the Hungarian population was planning to secede from Romania . |
| 9 | Yeremi soon discovered that while a monomolecular blade was excellent for bisecting a skull as such , when it came to dissecting the contents the knife was , if anything , too keen a scalpel — its cuts so wafer-thin that the warm brain matter seemed to seal together again as if glued . |
| 10 | Simpsons ' directors yesterday recommended that shareholders accept Baldwin 's offer in what is expected to be the conclusion of a bitter struggle for control of the group . |
| 11 | OUR parents always said that a hearty breakfast was good for us . |
| 12 | The refugees also claimed that water and electricity supplies had been cut in some parts of Kuwait City but not in others . |
| 13 | The judges also said that they would set aside the orders of Justice Morling that the Tobacco Industry of Australia could never , at any time in the future , replicate the claims contained in the offending sentence . |
| 14 | Baldwin and most Conservatives also felt that they needed MacDonald ( and the guise of being a National administration which went with his name ) for electoral reasons . |
| 15 | Although the accounts were concise , the print was too small , and because of some confusion over the treatment of the initial endowment under covenant , the judges later decided that its turnover was over the £1m maximum for the category . |
| 16 | Five companies also said that they had enhanced their internal audit . |
| 17 | Rather than remove these reminders of Glasgow 's past , the city 's planners wisely insisted that the facade survived not as a real building but almost as a museum exhibit whose Stones of Venice had appeared two years earlier . |
| 18 | Many reformers also complained that the new party 's founding document , adopted on Saturday by an 80 per cent majority , did not go far enough . |
| 19 | And proof that an informant had indeed reached Edward from the town was provided by the fact that the emissaries now demanded that the required hostage should be none other than Seton 's own son , a young man whom he had brought with him to Berwick on his first military venture , unfortunate a start as this had turned out to be . |
| 20 | Resentful at being used as manual labourers , blacks then discovered that they were not entitled to the same pay increases as white troops because , as the War Office ruled , they were ‘ natives ’ . |
| 21 | Conservatives sometimes asserted that it was good for MPs to continue with other part-time occupations so that they could gain wider experience of society 's problems . |
| 22 | The supermarkets then found that they could charge bigger margins on goods that were peripheral to their core business , processed foods . |
| 23 | However , the companies again maintained that the original 50-day time limit had been unrealistic . |
| 24 | erm I mean , it 's interesting , that 's not the only person that 's said that to me erm one of the youngsters actually said that to me last night erm sort of complaining again along the same sort of lines , and I said ‘ well hang on a minute , you know there are people actually at this moment who are putting their lives on the line and |
| 25 | The early joint appearances of the Prince and Princess of Wales and their travels together confirmed that the public approved of the Prince 's choice . |
| 26 | Interior ministry officials yesterday admitted that all main roads into Sarajevo were blocked after rebels had cut off the main northern route . |
| 27 | The Exchange is being moved into the nearby Lloyd 's of London building and observers yesterday suggested that the effect on its business would be small . |
| 28 | Figures for earlier years also showed that earnings area more likely to be the main source of income for lone fathers than lone mothers . |
| 29 | Respondents understood very clearly the difficult role of the manager , and some workers openly confessed that nothing would induce them to take on the manager 's job ! |
| 30 | Soviet officials later said that subsidies ( mainly involving the exchange of Soviet oil for Cuban sugar and worth up to an estimated US$3,000 million annually ) would be phased out gradually rather than ended abruptly . |