Example sentences of "[vb past] that [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that during the war he had been a medical officer in the German Wehrmacht fighting on the Eastern Front . |
| 2 | It later transpired that in the days immediately preceding the budget he had found time to eat only once — a poached egg at the Lyons Corner House which was then opposite the House of Commons . |
| 3 | Whether Cecil Leitch found the course embarrassingly short is not clear , but Lady Rathcreedan afterwards proposed that during the summer ladies should use the men 's tees to lengthen their course although without altering the par ! |
| 4 | Disturbed that the English were at odds with a nation that should have been one of its natural religious allies , Cromwell brought about a rapid end to the Dutch War , and during the peace negotiations he even proposed that in the interests of their common religion the English and Dutch republics should merge to form one united Protestant state . |
| 5 | Ortega promised that at the next congress , scheduled for 1995 , the DN would be elected by individual votes directly cast in a secret ballot and that a woman would be elected to the leadership . |
| 6 | Charlie Malone , a shop steward and one of the sacked workers , promised that by the end of the campaign there would be 300 fewer people on the dole . |
| 7 | This was a formidable catalogue of sins , but many of the ideas became generally accepted and to some extent underlay Mr Wilson 's thinking in 1963 when he talked of the Conservatives ' period in power since 1951 as ‘ thirteen wasted years ’ and promised that in the first hundred days of dynamic government after a Labour victory at the polls a new atmosphere would pervade Whitehall . |
| 8 | On Jan. 6 , as part of a televised speech , he had described the liberation of Palestine as the main objective in the struggle , while reaffirming nevertheless that " the return of Kuwait to the motherland is a reality " , that the Iraqi army should prepare for " the mother of battles " , and that the war would reach " every struggler and fighter whose hand can reach out to harm aggressors in the whole world " ; on Jan. 9 , when an International Islamic Popular Conference opened in Baghdad , he promised that in the event of war the Americans would " swim in their own blood " . |
| 9 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 10 | The alchemists maintained that through the correct disciplines such a return might be made . |
| 11 | Ramsey never doubted that in the formation of his mind Hoskyns was influential , and ever afterwards he was grateful . |
| 12 | His rounds took him to most parts of the building and Rain was eagerly accepting that it must have been Stan on the second floor making her jumpy when he mentioned that since the murder he did not go into MacQuillan 's room or those next to it because the police were usually there . |
| 13 | In my message for World Communications Day last year , I mentioned that among the realities we celebrate on this annual occasion are the God-given gifts of speech , of hearing and of sight which make communication possible between us . |
| 14 | We found that for the same journey in the same conditions , our average mpg shot up to 52 . |
| 15 | The Association found that for the first time the municipal government was taking its demands seriously and was prepared to make concessions which would effectively improve working conditions . |
| 16 | A Consumers ' Association report found that of the 32 tour operator 's policies surveyed , all but four fell short of its recommended levels of cover . |
| 17 | A recent Institute of Directors ' survey of 200 successful female executives found that of the 87 per cent who claimed to have encountered career obstacles not experienced by male colleagues , difficulty with childcare , at 37 per cent , was the biggest factor . |
| 18 | In a study of his four published Song Books , I found that of the forty-two tunes I could identify ( four I could not ) , some 60 per cent are ‘ traditional ’ , mostly of rural origin ( the bulk Scottish ) , while only about 12 per cent come from comic music hall songs and about 25 per cent from bourgeois sources ( parlour ballad , light opera ) . |
| 19 | McMahon and Greene found that on the pole-vaulter 's pillows , the runner was in contact with the surface far longer than on concrete , and that he deflected the pillows noticeably . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | William Dement woke six subjects in this systematic way over a period of six nights , and found that on the first night they did seem to " start all over again " whenever properly woken , so that by the end of the night they had achieved a good deal of slow wave sleep and very little REM sleep . |
| 22 | And all that is is a hammer and stamp and er and they have a habit of buckling because we regularly , erm postcode cycles erm , with the introduction of the mountain bike we found that on the weaker frames we were buckling them . |
| 23 | During which time I found that at the worst all Englishmen stuck together in regard to the West Indians … it was like a thorn in my heels to know that I was working in an atmosphere of hostility . |
| 24 | Thus the National Child Development Study which covered all children born during a week in 1958 found that at the age of 7 years there was a far higher proportion of children from the lower socio-economic groups who had not been immunised against smallpox , polio and diphtheria . |
| 25 | Adler found that despite the legislation a woman 's sexual history was routinely introduced during a rape trial . |
| 26 | A February 1991 report by the environmental pressure group Greenpeace found that despite the March 1989 signing of a convention on the international transport and disposal of hazardous waste [ see p. 36541 ] industrialized countries continued to export their toxic waste . |
| 27 | They found that over the course of the year , two-thirds of the women interviewed reported experiences of sexual harassment , one-quarter of the women had experienced threats , and one-fifth , violence . |
| 28 | Correll found that during the summer about half the river 's estuarine loadings of nitrogen come from the sky . |
| 29 | Given the date , it was then a question of working backwards and consulting an old diary ; and I found that during the period in question I was in India for Panorama . |
| 30 | We found that towards the end of the rehearsal period the actors during run-throughs referred to each other and related to each other in the offstage character ( Joyce , Neil , etc . ) . |