Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Jones read somewhere that children who hit their parents are looking for love and attention . |
| 2 | Such a list may quite simply be typed out on sheets of paper and duplicated so that additions and changes may be made until the list has to be retyped for clarity 's sake . |
| 3 | From the time when Ali was stripped of his title until 1975 , the material conditions of blacks deteriorated ; unemployment tripled so that figures of 35–50 per cent were commonplace in urban ghettos ( Roberts and Kloss , 1979 , p.72 ) . |
| 4 | The junior transport minister , Mr Robert Atkins , proposed yesterday that drivers supervising a learner must be at least 21 and have had a full licence for at least three years . |
| 5 | Dividend stripping is to some extent considered legitimate tax planning by the Inland Revenue , provided it is done within the confines of s176 and provided also that reserves out of which to pay a dividend are not " artificially " created . |
| 6 | Many in the Latin American/Caribbean Group of staff , in discussing this paper , disagreed strongly that scholarships usually efficiently strengthen the poor . |
| 7 | The UDF proposed instead that by-elections should be held in May to fill the seats left vacant by the expulsion from the Assembly of the disgraced former BCP leader and head of state Todor Zhivkov and his closest associates , and to replace other deputies who were most discredited by their record under the Zhivkov regime . |
| 8 | Descartes believed firmly that universals were formed in the mind and that ideas possessed ‘ objective ’ and ‘ formal ’ reality ; that is , that it was an irreducible feature of ideas that they were able to be about a class of objects . |
| 9 | WITH admirable understatement , the chief economist of one of Australia 's big four banks admitted yesterday that events of 1989 have done little to help his country 's international business image . |
| 10 | Sir Hector Monro announced yesterday that farmers in Less Favoured Areas would be paid 75 per cent of the cost of repairing flood defences damaged by the storms . |
| 11 | The State President , Mr F.W. de Klerk , announced yesterday that conscripts would do only one year full-time military service , instead of two . |
| 12 | The State President , Mr F.W. de Klerk , announced yesterday that conscripts would do only one year full-time military service , instead of two . |
| 13 | On the sensitive issue of the WEU [ see also above ] the draft stated only that decisions with defence implications " can be entirely or partially implemented in the framework of the WEU to the degree they also come within the competence of this body " . |
| 14 | In Johannesburg , the South African Communist Party claimed yesterday that Jonas Savimbi , the Unita leader , was being sheltered in South Africa , which supported the movement during the 1980s in its fight against the Angolan government . |
| 15 | IBM Corp claimed yesterday that revenues in its Advanced Workstations and AIX Systems unit grew in the first quarter by more than 50% over a year ago : director Tom Jarosh said demand for the system is ‘ growing rapidly , with customer shipments in the US up 90% ’ over a year ago ; the unit covers workstations and servers , AIX/6000 operating system and related software . |
| 16 | Vyacheslav Antonov , a senior official of the central press agency , Soyuzpechat , claimed yesterday that readers were merely becoming more discerning , after having snapped up everything on offer in the initial heady flush of press freedom . |
| 17 | A RAILWAY safety inspector acknowledged yesterday that junctions like the one at Newton , near Motherwell , where four people died in a head-on train crash , were unlikely ever to be approved for use again . |
| 18 | The results showed clearly that children who were good at categorising sounds were better at reading and spelling regardless of their IQ . |
| 19 | So the diffraction of laser photons becomes a novel form of Bragg reflection , which effect showed originally that X-rays are electromagnetic waves and that atoms in solids line up in ordered arrays . |
| 20 | DUP leader the Rev Ian Paisley claimed today that conferences of politicians will not stop the violence in Northern Ireland . |
| 21 | I claimed there that holists and individualists are not in fact disagreeing principally over the issue of reduction as has generally been supposed . |
| 22 | Until recently many authorities stated categorically that cats , almost alone among mammals , were incapable of detecting sweet tastes . |
| 23 | But yesterday one of the group 's leading members , Mrs Rajender Kaur , stated firmly that Sikhs did not want Khalistan , their own state . |
| 24 | No shortages of cliches , but La Plante showed again that cliches can still make good viewing if handled correctly . |
| 25 | Arsenal boss George Graham confirmed afterwards that absentees Alan Smith , David Hillier and Stephen Morrow are doubtful for Saturday 's cup clash . |
| 26 | The CBI stated recently that matters will improve and the Bank of England says that the leading indicator measures point firmly to an upturn in output in 1992 . |
| 27 | The MPRP leader , President Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat , stated afterwards that efforts had now to be made to promote further democratization and to overcome the current economic crisis . |
| 28 | When Lafargue , a Proudhonist , argued later that nationalities were ‘ antiquated superstitions ’ , Marx teased him gently by replying that ‘ by his denial of nationalities , he quite unconsciously understood their absorption in a model French nation ’ . |
| 29 | The committee heard today that gangs regularly hurled abusive comments at local people , making an unacceptable level of noise and leaving litter behind them . |
| 30 | HIGH Street retailers warned yesterday that prices of imported goods were bound to rise . |