Example sentences of "[that] [noun] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Main Line 's lawyers said during a trial in state court that Basinger suffered from an ‘ ego run amok ’ and that her backing out led to a year-long delay and a loss of between £3.3m and £6.6m . |
| 2 | The most obvious of these was that mergers occurred in waves and affected all industries . |
| 3 | The verdict was that Horsley had about as clean a bill of health as it was possible for a real , live capitalist to have . |
| 4 | Others said that Horsley saw in Hayling the image of what he had always wanted to be — idealistic , full of derring-do , glamorous , and free from the tedious baggage of conventional business life . |
| 5 | The Right-Ons fired back the unanswerable reply that meetings belonged to those who attended them . |
| 6 | It 's true that this was not the only experience of ridicule that Ian faced in childhood . |
| 7 | They were driven to this by the obstructiveness that Stirling met with . |
| 8 | Lorna Woodroffe gave them a great send off by defeating Mandy Wainwright ( Essex ) , the National 's 16 's champion , 6–3 , 6–4 , Wainwright gained revenge in the doubles , which was the only reverse that Woodroffe suffered in the series . |
| 9 | Extending this aim meant that signs had to be invented when no obvious word — sign equivalent existed . |
| 10 | And yet it is a paradox of the period that change came into country life as often as not through the women . |
| 11 | The process meant that adolescence ceased to be what an American scholar has called an ‘ idea ’ and became , in his words , a ‘ social fact ’ . |
| 12 | Then she remembered that her therapist had said something about that , had said that it was not for Camille that Scarlet grieved in expectation but for herself and her own pain , implying by her tone that it was really most foolish . |
| 13 | But it turns out that snails parasitized by certain kinds of fluke ( flatworm ) have extra-thick shells . |
| 14 | By 1971 , the tension was so great that Kapwepwe broke with Kaunda and formed the United People 's Party ( UPP ) which depended on a flimsy alliance between the Bemba and other tribal groups who at that time felt they were out in the political cold . |
| 15 | He certainly used methods of etching and aquatinting that Sandby introduced from the continent . |
| 16 | His widow , Betty , told Esquire that MacDonald worked on the team for only a year before he was fired by Hill . |
| 17 | On the other hand , he points out that Devlin had in fact answered the question in the affirmative , and had justified this response by suggesting that , just as society can take steps to preserve itself against acts of treason , then so it may protect itself from attacks on established morality , for this too can threaten society 's existence . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've had confirmation from Laville , Reichsführer , that Devlin jumped into Southern Ireland at approximately two a.m . ’ |
| 19 | The longer the dispute continued the more officialdom in Scottish education recognized that support had to be provided . |
| 20 | They argue that support acted as an antecedent protective factor , but as their data was not longitudinal , the relationships they found are open to alternative explanations . |
| 21 | Further , while it was said that the decision of Browne J. in the Bognor Regis case [ 1972 ] 2 Q.B. 169 had been generally approved , or not criticised , by textbook writers , and by the Faulks Committee in 1975 , it was not suggested that Parliament had in any legislation apparently treated that decision as representing settled law . |
| 22 | Then she put the apple pie into the range oven and slammed the door so hard that coals fell into the grate . |
| 23 | It has already been noted that contemporaries complained of the prevalence of this crime . |
| 24 | It was Bavaria that provided the Catholic leadership of the Counter-Reformation in Germany , yet as we have seen the young Lassus was capable of composing not only Masses approved by the reforming cardinals but others in flagrant disregard of everything that Trent stood for ( see p. 245 ) . |
| 25 | Such figures have caught the attention of Bill Clinton , who admitted in his ‘ state of the union ’ address that Superfund needed to be re-examined . |
| 26 | To a large extent that ideology looked to the Roman past . |
| 27 | It is small wonder that Keynesians stood in perplexed amazement when they tried to relate the new classical theory of unemployment to the unemployment rates which were being experienced in the late 1970s . |
| 28 | It was in the decline of the movement that Healy came into his own . |
| 29 | The title ‘ administrative criminology ’ is of significance in that it is the title that Vold gave to the classical criminology of Beccaria and Bentham ( as we saw in Chapter 1 ) . |
| 30 | Dragon is thought to draw on technology from Sun 's collaboration with Cray Research Inc to develop the non-massively parallel Sparc technology that Cray adopted with Floating Point Systems Inc ( UX No 369 ) , and may use Fujitsu Ltd CPUs . |