Example sentences of "[vb past] that [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NUT , reporting to the Younger Committee on Privacy in 1972 , proposed that reports about a child 's misbehaviour should be kept from parents and that information on the pupil or his home background ‘ which might be gleaned from hearsay or possibly based on malicious gossip ’ should not be kept on a permanent record . |
| 2 | Another way of putting this would be to say that Althusser demonstrated that according to the protocols of conventional logic , history is impossible . |
| 3 | In addition he has stressed the crankish nature of many of its supporters and the fact that it drew that support from only a very small section of the working class — even though they may have formed a significant proportion of the BUF 's small membership of between 5,000 and 40,000 members throughout the 1930s . |
| 4 | The treaty , covering the external aspects of German unification , complemented that signed by the two German states on Aug. 31 [ see p. 37661 ] and removed the last major obstacle to unification on Oct. 3 , 1990 . |
| 5 | He designed that look for Susan Foreman , and indeed arranged to open his shop specially for me one evening so I could be ready for the production day next morning . |
| 6 | I stood in that upper gallery where I first saw Dana and he cast that look upon me which was to make me his slave . |
| 7 | He also maintained that increases in public expenditure would lead to increased taxation and higher unemployment . |
| 8 | Leonard avenged that reverse in New Orleans the following November in the notorious ‘ no mas ’ night of surrender which has haunted the Panamanian all the way to this bonanza . |
| 9 | The 1981 census found that compared with the national average of 14% , inner urban areas have particularly heavy concentrations of lone parent families . |
| 10 | The Framingham population cohort study found that compared with non-smokers , those who smoked had a lower rate of clinical gall bladder disease , a difference that reached borderline statistical significance . |
| 11 | He found that gazing at the CO 's moustache helped . |
| 12 | They found that allowing for the tax timing option ( as well as stochastic interest rates and different income and capital gains tax rates ) in the no-arbitrage condition resulted in the no-arbitrage prices of the S&P500 moving much closer to the actual prices for the period June 1982 to September 1982 than if no such adjustments were made to the no-arbitrage condition . |
| 13 | We found that adjusting for maternal smoking in pregnancy did not change the strength of the association between birth weight and lung function so that the effect of environment in utero on birth weight and subsequently on lung function may be independent of smoking in pregnancy . |
| 14 | The son of a one-time Manchester United football player and star of too many ordinary British films like Pussycat , Pussycat , I Love You and Yesterday 's Hero , found that moving to America paid off , even if it was only in numerous glossy TV mini-series and soaps like Dallas . |
| 15 | Although she was terribly fond of the children she found that working with them was like banging her head against a brick wall . |
| 16 | In their own study which actually involved recording EEG/EOG measures of sleeping shiftworkers in their own homes using a portable tape recorder , they also found that sleep during the day was generally shorter than night-time sleep , and more frequently interrupted by awakenings . |
| 17 | In work which addresses the impact of the Women 's Liberation Movement on female crime rates , Box and Hale ( 1984 ) found that increases in the rate of female unemployment were significantly related to increases in the rate of conviction for violent crime ( assault and wounding ) , theft , handling stolen goods and fraud . |
| 18 | But , as one founder member of the League commented : " We demanded the right to vote but found that vote to be worthless " ( Transito de Ramirez , Los Angeles . |
| 19 | In the 1950s many teachers found that exercises in grammatical analysis did not help children to raise their standards in the use of English . |
| 20 | But no-one used that label in the ninth century ; nor did Charles ever call himself king of the West Franks : his own royal title was simply " king by the grace of God " . |
| 21 | The research did n't explore the sorts of relationships that parents wanted but it 's a pretty safe guess that they wanted teachers that did n't shout ; the Newsons ( 1984 ) reported that shouting by teachers was the major complaint which mothers made on behalf of their eleven-year-olds . |
| 22 | However , after Wakeham reported that support among backbenchers had collapsed during the day , perhaps by half , it was clear to those around Mrs Thatcher that , although she said she would sleep on it , she was virtually certain to resign . |
| 23 | Men who reported that talking with their closest friend or relative made things worse had 29% and 40% higher rates of short and long spells of absence , respectively , compared with those who reported positive support from this person . |
| 24 | and we did n't think , and sort of , then we realized that had to sort of like turn it off and that might help a bit , but boiling water , we 're trying to stop it with our finger . |
| 25 | Now I do n't think many people realized that asking for the maintenance of standards , rather than perhaps the changing of standards , was asking for something that was almost diametrically opposed to asking for an educational system that was more geared towards preparing children for adult life and productive work . |
| 26 | Belatedly , Manville realized that going in cold , straight to the top , had been a serious tactical error . |
| 27 | Even without his rose-coloured glasses , he realized that dressed in a pretty , long frock with her hair freshly waved , Cora-Beth could hold her own against any other young girl in the room . |
| 28 | A sizable majority of respondents in each of the remaining categories , including local law societies , agreed that grants to individual clients should continue to be unlimited . |
| 29 | Delegates agreed that points to be discussed at the December meeting would include ( i ) the creation of a climate for free political participation ; ( ii ) constitutional principles ; ( iii ) the nature of the constitution-making body and arrangements for a transitional government ; and ( iv ) the future of the bantustans . |
| 30 | Wallace ( 1889 ) agreed that combat between males was an important source of selection pressures leading to sexual dimorphism but regarded this as a form of natural selection on the grounds that it increased ‘ the vigour and fighting power of the male animal , since , in every case , the weaker are either killed , wounded or driven away ’ . |