Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The investigations revealed that there were , in fact , no clear trends . |
| 2 | Recruitment personnel agreed that there was a need for an attitudinal change in this area of business and suggested that educational establishments had a responsibility to help achieve this . |
| 3 | In mid-July the Croatian authorities announced that they did not have the resources to cope with any more refugees unless substantial help from abroad was forthcoming . |
| 4 | The German authorities announced that they would request his extradition in connection with his alleged collaboration with international terrorists and in particular the 1983 bombing of the French consulate in Berlin [ see p. 33039 ] . |
| 5 | Relations with South Africa deteriorated further [ see p. 39178 ] when on Dec. 1 the Angolan authorities announced that they were holding the crew of a South African plane which had made an emergency landing in Luena , Moxico province . |
| 6 | But in such a modern industrialized state it was not long before many groups realized that their role in the social and economic system made their co-operation and support essential to the Communist Party . |
| 7 | All clubs agreed that there should be no further weigh-in . ’ |
| 8 | A surreptitious study of the timetables revealed that there was a bus at 2 p.m. which got to Darrowby at five o'clock , and another leaving Darrowby at six which arrived in Scarborough at nine . |
| 9 | Immediately afterwards the UDF deputies announced that they were withdrawing from the GNA indefinitely . |
| 10 | The deputies announced that they were resigning because the government " has not been able to keep its promises " with regard to the Kurdish population . |
| 11 | On June 25 a number of Kurdish deputies announced that they had formed the Freedom and Labour Party ( OZEP ) . |
| 12 | The Iranian authorities countered that they had repeatedly asked the Turkish government to present evidence for such claims . |
| 13 | One veteran observer of the New York museum scene summarised the insular society 's predicament : ‘ During the 60s , 70s and 80s when all other institutions realised that there was no way that they could build up an endowment without catering to the masses and without appealing to the federal government , museums went with cap in hand ; they saw this was now the game . |
| 14 | The employers admitted that there would be an inferior service . |
| 15 | Analyses of voting patterns revealed that it was primarily the racist demagoguery against foreign nationals living in West Germany that accounted for the party 's victories . |
| 16 | Her description was so detailed and precise that experts agreed that she had seen the eagle . |
| 17 | At a hearing held by the Commission in November 1991 , the majority of national experts agreed that there should be a threshold ranging from ECU150 to 1,000 ( £107-£714 ; $186–$1240 ) . |
| 18 | In any case few statesmen grasped that there was a profound contradiction between the economic and the social policies being pursued by the government . |
| 19 | Marathon runners finishing after 2 hours 45 minutes found that they could not get into the stadium after a 26 mile 385 yard slog in 90F temperatures . |
| 20 | These could only amount to obiter because , of course , the courts found that there was no tax charge . |
| 21 | Some authorities maintained that it was the first time a single drug had been shown to be useful in controlling psychotic patients . |
| 22 | At one of the major colonies of black-headed gulls in northern England , researchers found that it was a good year if fifteen per cent of the eggs that were laid produced fledged young . |
| 23 | When bad times came and wages were below the level on which they could support their families , the labourers found that they had to ask the authorities of the parish in which they lived for relief ; in other words they became paupers , who could be sent to the workhouse . |
| 24 | The monopolistic merchants found that they had insufficient capital to advance the loans required ; there was much evasion of the monopolies ; and the export trade itself was disrupted by the crown 's impressment of merchant shipping for war , and its political pressures on Flanders . |
| 25 | In July 1990 , for example , many arbitrageurs who had written futures contracts to buy FTSE 100 Index futures found that they were short of the FTSE contract close to the expiry deadline , and so attempted to reduce share prices to reduce the value of the index . |
| 26 | Even after the passing of minimum-wage legislation in 1909 , as many as 42 per cent of the homeworkers in the trades covered by the Acts found that they could not earn the statutory minimum . |
| 27 | The researchers demonstrated that there is a physiological plasma/milk barrier against fluoride which protects the infant from more than extremely low concentrations of the halogen . |
| 28 | [ His Lordship discussed Ward v. Byham ( above , p. 224 ) and Williams v. Williams ( above , p.218 ) , and pointed out that the other judges in those cases found that there was ample consideration . ] |
| 29 | Several speakers agreed that there seemed to be a great waste of resources in the whole training area . |
| 30 | At that stage in his career no one was looking for a hit-machine : the longer heads realised that it was a difficult job to scale the face of Broadway — as it was in the West End — with so few footholds and even fewer helping ropes dangling down to give you a lift . |