Example sentences of "[vb past] that [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnson , never under an obligation to generate social ease , dismissed that by saying ‘ The intimacy is such as one of the professors here may have with one of the carpenters who is repairing the college , ’ Johnson 's point being that the printer , having printed some of Warburton 's works , might perhaps have bought the copyright in one or two of them . |
| 2 | Hick made a break through into this problem as he proposed that in making choice reactions , subjects gain information at a constant rate . |
| 3 | In an elegant series of experiments Conrad ( 1964 ) demonstrated that in transposing visually presented data the errors are more likely to be in numbers or letters of similar sound rather than those which are of similar appearance . |
| 4 | However , he mentioned that after referring to Re Bennett [ 1896 ] 1 Ch 778 the expenses of a term life assurance policy as well as a whole life insurance policy on the settlor 's life would prima facie be capital rather than income . |
| 5 | Yet a year ago , the Monopolies Commission , following a somewhat sceptical report by the House of Commons Select Committee on Energy , found that despite operating efficiency in general , the board 's investment appraisals were seriously defective , liable to mislead , and operated against the public interest . |
| 6 | But , bit by bit , Haringey found that in setting 1989-90 's rate , it had rather more than the year 's expenditure to cover . |
| 7 | Kodak found that by flattening the grain into tabular or T-shape , the same amount of silver intercepts more light . |
| 8 | Also , he found that by glancing occasionally at William 's medieval illustrations he was able to prolong the actual phallic performance to well over half an hour , a personal best , even deducting the time taken to eat the cakes . |
| 9 | I found that by grafting their Cartesian clarity on to our language I 've produced a different fruit altogether . ’ |
| 10 | I thought I might have problems here , because the inside mitre on the four outer glazing bars created a slight undercut for assembling the curved outer members in the horizontal plane , but I found that by locating the curved members on the bottom rail first , then swinging the tops in on a slight curve , they just clicked into place nicely . |
| 11 | ‘ We started from the point of making the mass as low as possible , ’ Wortmann says , ‘ We found that by avoiding the turbulence of two rotors , we were able to achieve a rotor speed of 450 kilometres per hour at the tip — the fastest in the world . ’ |
| 12 | Wrangham found that by following chimpanzees daily , he could establish the ranging relationships of the animals . |
| 13 | The windows up here were waist-high , but very deep , and she found that by lifting herself up into the actual narrow embrasure , and leaning precariously forward , she could get a limited view of the clearing below . |
| 14 | She found that by giving a little leap she could stride across almost like a grown-up . |
| 15 | He found that by giving the salt in low potency there was often an improvement in the patient 's well-being . |
| 16 | He found that by staring , and then blinking , he could ‘ photograph ’ objects . |
| 17 | The Council of Europe stayed its hand , and the Seventh Session of the Conference found that by making two small amendments to the service provisions of the 1905 text ( the definition of ‘ autorité compétente ’ in Article 2 , so as to include solicitors ; an addition to Article 3 providing for the supply of two copies of the document to be served ) the Hague text could be made entirely acceptable to the British Government . |
| 18 | They found that by introducing a normal gene to substitute the defective one , the mice recovered from the illness . |
| 19 | I found that by adding white I could achieve my desired effect . |
| 20 | He had experimented with various foods and found that by restricting his diet to one of fresh fruits and vegetables he could control his migraine . |
| 21 | When , in 1929 , the Swiss amateur physiologist Hans Berger reported that by taping a set of recording electrodes to the human scalp he could record continuous bursts of electricity pulsing through the brain , he was at first not taken seriously . |
| 22 | Reminded that he would be going back as one of the 10 per cent , ‘ Jacki ’ let go one of the handsome smiles which have made him so popular , but he qualified that by underlining the discomfort he might feel in that situation . |
| 23 | He hinted that if the Quayle Munro report proved favourable , the council would be prepared to consider further financial assistance to help the colliery back on to its feet , but he qualified that by saying the sums involved would ‘ not be massive ’ . |
| 24 | As I said , I was almost half way up the front before I realised that between knitting the back and starting the front I 'd had a teaching session . |
| 25 | I wonder , however , if they realised that by producing documents in this civil action , the defendants could safely resist the use of those documents if the police subsequently acquired them ‘ independently ’ from some other source . |
| 26 | Then I saw a friend using parallel rulers on a map , and I realised that by using a similar technique I could put all those 1/4in cutter into use . |
| 27 | He announced that after adopting the draft platform , designed " to give clear political guidelines " in the light of the " crystallization of both the conservative and left-radical tendencies " , the central committee would reconvene within weeks to consider new draft party rules . |
| 28 | Just a few weeks before the zoo was due to close at the end of September , a meeting of the Zoological Society of London , which owns both Whipsnade Wild Animal Park and London Zoo , revealed that after struggling on despite falling attendances , the zoo 's finances have finally broken even . |
| 29 | Frege argued that in asserting an existential proposition one is in effect saying something about the relevant concept , namely that certain things fall under it , or , conversely , that nothing falls under it , i.e. that the concept is empty , as the case may be . |
| 30 | Van den Boogaard argued that in entering Anglo-Norman , fabliaux underwent a radical transformation because they were aimed at such an isolated audience ; an audience isolated from the full French literary frame of reference that a truly French audience would have had . |