Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rhee explained the failures to control inflation as the fault of his incompetent ministers but Muccio maintained that Rhee himself was to blame . |
| 2 | My research found that managers who wanted to innovate , or try something new , almost invariably needed more resources , information , and support than they had . |
| 3 | This found that girls who had felt isolated and embarrassed about being pregnant or having babies felt less stigma about this after they had attended the units and could take a much more realistic view of their situation . |
| 4 | Both the 1985 GHS ( Green , 1988 ) and McLaughlin 's ( 1991 ) study of the invalid care allowance ( ICA ) found that women who had ceased to care within the previous twelve months were less likely to be in employment than their non-carer peers . |
| 5 | ‘ When I compared notes with managers in places like Glasgow and Manchester , I found that women there seemed to go for more restrained , less glitzy clothes . |
| 6 | For six-pointed shapes of the type shown in Fig 5.5 , Ellis and Muller found that subjects who had learned labels for the various shapes out-performed controls ( who had simply observed the stimuli in the first phase of training ) on a motor task that required pressing one switch rather than some other in response to these stimuli . |
| 7 | Kangas-Saarela et al found that babies whose mothers had received epidural analgesia with bupivacaine had higher neurobehavioural scores than those whose mothers had not received such analgesia . |
| 8 | We found that patients who were significantly younger er sorry we found that patients who were counselled for retrograde ejaculation were significantly younger er but we also found that marital status did not seem to have an effect on whether they were counselled for retrograde ejaculation or not . |
| 9 | We found that patients who were significantly younger er sorry we found that patients who were counselled for retrograde ejaculation were significantly younger er but we also found that marital status did not seem to have an effect on whether they were counselled for retrograde ejaculation or not . |
| 10 | In a previous follow up study we found that patients who had challenge proven cow 's milk allergy acquired clinical tolerance to cow 's milk when the antigen specific immune response had developed . |
| 11 | We found that patients who developed abdominal pain had significantly higher median serum amylase and lipase values than asymptomatic patients , a finding that tends to validate abdominal pain as a marker of ‘ subclinical ’ pancreatitis . |
| 12 | The same study found that people who read a daily paper were more likely to watch the news on TV than people who did not . |
| 13 | I went there and found that people who had been waiting for four hours or more had still not received satisfaction . |
| 14 | The research also found that children who tended to withdraw following the sibling 's birth were likely to be hostile during the ensuing years and their relationship was often conflictual . |
| 15 | ( 1980 ) found that children who maintained their improved weight one to three years after treatment had higher levels of exercise than peers who failed to do so . |
| 16 | J.W.B. Douglas ( 1973 ) found that children who have no stressful event reported in the first four years of life ( especially the third and fourth ) are much less likely to wet their beds than children who have experienced these events . |
| 17 | The Butterley Company found that men whose wives could not find work were less likely to stay at Ollerton , and so planned the building of factories in the village which would ensure both that men were not lost and that family incomes could be supplemented . |
| 18 | This is disappointing for such a theoretically sensitive technique , but we found that tissue itself potently inhibits the polymerase chain reaction if not adequately purified , and despite our spiking experiment we may not have abolished sample inhibition . |
| 19 | Police Sergeant Herbert Thorpe said that Drew had walked into the station and reported that trousers he had lost earlier had shown up and that he wanted the sergeant to inspect them . |
| 20 | Lesser folk were aggrieved by the foresters ' interference with their rights of common in the Forest ; the Forest officers for their part reported that privileges they claimed had no warrant . |
| 21 | He was full of all the gossip and rumours , most of it picked up from the ships he visited and seamen he talked to . |
| 22 | When he realized that Hassan himself would not tell the Shah to go , Marenches offered to do it himself . |
| 23 | Graham Shaw , then Group personnel Director , regarded the quality of search work he had experienced as satisfactory , without leaks or indiscretions ; he agreed that headhunters who could not be trusted would soon be finished . |
| 24 | Reaffirmed their decision of 3rd November that the decision on this issue should be left to a free vote , preferably on the Report stage of the Bill in the House of Commons ; and agreed that Ministers who dissented from the advice which was to be tendered in accordance with Conclusion above should be free , if they so desired , to vote for the abolition of the death penalty , though they should refrain from expressing in debate views contrary to that advice ; … |
| 25 | It also recommended that children whose needs could not be met within the resources of the ordinary school should have a record ( which came to be called a ‘ statement ’ ) of their special educational needs drawn up by a multi-professional team . |
| 26 | Masters of their art , Stock , Aitken and Waterman realised that day they had unearthed a talent that could outshine anything , even in their empire . |
| 27 | A recent study revealed that children who smoke are 3 times more likely to have time off school [ 10 ] . |
| 28 | Later , in their survey of new teachers in school , they argued that teachers who were insecure in their subject material adopted |
| 29 | Brown and Birley ( 1968 ) argued that people who have a history of schizophrenia have a high sensitivity to their social environment even when they have no apparent symptoms . |
| 30 | The United States argued that Nicaragua itself had previously represented that it , Nicaragua , had no binding declaration under Article 36 ( 2 ) and was estopped from now asserting the validity of its declaration . |