Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first week of July the Soviet authorities announced that in the third quarter of 1990 its oil deliveries to its European COMECON partners would be reduced by around 30 per cent . |
| 2 | An examination of magistrates courts revealed that for the under-21 population , black youth on average received 12 months imprisonment , whilst white youth only 9 months for similar offences . |
| 3 | In the parliament of 1371 two Austin friars argued that in a national emergency the prince who has endowed the churches may resume their property for the good of the realm ; about this time Langland was enlarging in Piers Plowman upon Holy Poverty , as were so many friars in their sermons ; before the end of the reign Wyclif , spokesman for Gaunt , especially against his wealthy political enemy , Bishop Wykeham of Winchester , was denying the right of priests to hold any property . |
| 4 | The alchemists maintained that through the correct disciplines such a return might be made . |
| 5 | The researchers found that at three weeks of age , 39% of the infants had been exposed to passive smoking from any source . |
| 6 | As the investigation progressed , the researchers found that on the two-toed species males outnumbered females 3.1 , and on the more common three-toed sloth it was 7:1 . |
| 7 | Researchers found that on a day when an ‘ insular ’ mother reported having an argument with another adult before she was observed at home with her child , she was more likely to behave unpleasantly towards her child ( Wahler and Graves 1983 ) . |
| 8 | In July , The Times reported that in Brussels talks had again broken down . |
| 9 | John Evans ( 1990 ) in some research on Australian play times found that by far the greatest percentage of interactions recorded invoked the teacher in an authoritarian role , issuing requests and orders to children . |
| 10 | The brothers found that on average over the six months they had incurred costs for advertising , petrol etc. which amounted to £10 for each bed sold . |
| 11 | A small number of schools mentioned that as part of their monitoring procedures , pupils were asked to evaluate social education programmes and one secondary school referred to a survey of pupils ' attitudes to health education . |
| 12 | But the inspectors found that in its second year , up to the summer of 1991 , the only significant improvements were in primary science and ‘ some aspects of English . ’ |
| 13 | Bombload was to have been ten to fifteen tons and the designers believed that after shedding its bombs , the Fugaku would have been able to outpace US interceptors . |
| 14 | The confidence of those words confirmed that in two and a half years Neighbours — the show which baffled the critics as its banality won millions of fans around the world — had transformed the shy diffident Kylie into an ambitious young woman . |
| 15 | Delay figures extracted from the present databases showed that in 82 cases , ( 25% ) , related papers were published before the date of completion of the thesis . |
| 16 | Delay figures extracted from the present databases showed that in 82 cases , ( 25% ) , related papers were published before the date of completion of the thesis . |
| 17 | The poverty of the peasants and the village communes meant that in 1792 , when the situation was transformed by the irruption of the armies of revolutionary France , less than half the redemptions of feudal rights envisaged two decades earlier had been completed . |
| 18 | As mentioned above , several headteachers said that during June even the more academic pupils are tempted to take time off and this is sometimes condoned by parents . |
| 19 | And the umpires considered that to be in ‘ too poor a condition ’ to use . |
| 20 | Although there was widespread speculation as to the authenticity of the leaflets , experts believed that for the first time there was fairly solid evidence to show that the group was experiencing internal problems , with the possibility that a moderate faction had appeared to question the cult of leadership of Sendero leader Abimael Guzmán Renoso and his military strategy to bring down the state . |
| 21 | Yeremi realized that during these precious moments Juron was allowing his Wolverine Squad to lose their umwelt-virginity , to embrace the shattering impact of the utterly new . |
| 22 | The evaluators found that in some schools library committees had become moribund , and although this was often blamed on industrial action , some people did seem to have lost interest once they had received and spent their grant . |
| 23 | As late as World War II , reception areas reported that between 8 and 35 per cent of children evacuated from London to escape the bombing had infested heads . |
| 24 | Both countries claimed that in these areas of Northeast Asia their political and economic rights and interests were paramount to national security . |
| 25 | The review , which covered 142 of the world 's 178 countries showed that in 1991 , 65 countries still held prisoners of conscience , while the use of " disappearance " as a tactic for eliminating political opponents had been substantiated in 26 countries . |
| 26 | My computer models showed that at the beginning the swing ( about 230 ms before impact ) , the application of wrist torque bends the shaft backwards . |
| 27 | The use of specific monoclonal antibodies indicated that in all cases c-Jun and c-Fos or antigenically related proteins were required for binding . |
| 28 | ‘ The judges felt that in this wild and exposed situation only a very tough and challenging building both in design and construction would be appropriate . ’ |
| 29 | Although both ‘ Bomber ’ Smith and the engineers hoped that in time they would be able to bring construction times down nearer to three years ( from the beginning of work on site to the commissioning of the first sets ) , the time actually taken was typically five or more years . |
| 30 | The high quality of the Gulf pearls and the fact that the fisheries were controlled by Arabs ensured that from the market at Bandar e Lengeh on the Iranian coast not far west of the Gulf of Hormuz they entered into the trade network of the Indian Ocean and adjacent areas . |