Example sentences of "[vb past] that [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another way of putting this would be to say that Althusser demonstrated that according to the protocols of conventional logic , history is impossible . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | After a defeat in the House of Lords the government agreed that transfer to HATs would be preceded by a ballot among the tenants concerned . |
| 8 | It was only minutes before the Athletico gladiators took to the field that Chamden 's assistant manager , Frank Spanner , announced that owing to an outbreak of foot and mouth amongst the first team , they had been forced to include six second-team men in their squad at Billington Euphonia . |
| 9 | And the pencil — what made that fall to the floor ? ’ |
| 10 | Our Lord made that remark to some well-intentioned apostles — some of the apostles were thick you know , quite thick . |
| 11 | He quotes Kettle ( 1982 ) who argued that according to the Home Office , 50 per cent of the population of Ashford remand centre were black , and for Brixton and Aylesbury prisons , remand prisoners were between 25 per cent and 35 per cent black . |
| 12 | The report added that according to the police and the Botswana Defence Force ( BDF ) , the SADF had carried out 20 direct attacks or acts of sabotage against Botswana up to February 1989 , killing 31 civilians , of whom 70 per cent were Botswanan citizens , the rest being refugees or visitors . |
| 13 | Basically it resembled that issued to hospitals , canteens and similar institutions . |
| 14 | In January 1980 a Soviet commentator noted that according to the admissions of the American State Department ‘ the leaders of Egypt , Oman , Somalia and Kenya have agreed to grant the Pentagon the right to use the ports and a number of military installations in their countries ’ . |
| 15 | An article in Izvestiya of Nov. 2 , however , noted that according to the 1991 Russian Federation law on the rehabilitation of repressed peoples , deported peoples had the right to the land on which they had lived before their deportation . |
| 16 | 11–2–1903 The Moderator intimated that owing to the state of his health he was no longer able to perform all his duties and resolved to ask the General Assembly for a grant from the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund to aid in securing the services of an unordained assistant . |
| 17 | Rubbish , of course , but Dr Forster , the meteorologist of Bruges , declared that according to the journal kept by his grandfather , father and self , from 1767 to the 1880s , whenever the new Moon had fallen on Saturday the following 20 days were wet and windy , in 19 cases out of 20 . |
| 18 | A Mrs J. Minton , who taught conventional art , claimed that owing to the similarity of their names in the London telephone directory she was plagued at least three times a day with telephone calls for John Minton , whose art she did not like , and that open cheques would arrive for him in the post , commissioning pictures and with the note ‘ fill in your own price ’ . |
| 19 | It is the comparison of the size of the cloud with the dust veils from eruptions such as Krakatoa and Agung that leads to a prediction of a cooling of the northern hemisphere by about 0.5 °C , with the biggest effect late in 1983 or in 1984 . |
| 20 | To save time and money , ICI decided that damage to the plant could be repaired with cheap prefabricated units . |
| 21 | The stock immediately before the change included that relating to W 's practice , which never became part of B's stock , and following the dissolution B was engaged in only one part of the original practice . |
| 22 | Iago watched that fight to its end , and saw the survivors haled away into the forest and silence . |
| 23 | The nature of the mining industry with its shiftwork , its tradition of generation following generation ‘ down the pit ’ , and the isolation of most of the pit villages ( the majority of them built by the pit-owners : Bacon , 1986 ) , meant that according to Chaplin ( 1978 , p. 77 ) |
| 24 | Thus in France decrees of 1853 and 1856 , which repeated an earlier one of 1844 , demanded that recruits to the diplomatic service hold a licence en droit , while the Belgian government in 1858 made a university degree essential for admission . |
| 25 | I got the job at and I 'd had e I 'd had experience , I knew that going to was no problem . |
| 26 | He complained that according to English Law he could not marry a woman , and that thus he was denied the right to marry and found a family . |
| 27 | Francis gave that place to Leon and he 's going to take it . ’ |
| 28 | Well , she tells me that she is going to throw Shaun out because Shaun is boring , er , Don put her , Shaun she has no respect for she says because he has n't got a job , he wo n't get a job , he wo n't work , and she said to Lee what did I think of the idea of taking Pete back , once they were properly divorced take Pete back just as a lover and I said that sounds to me to be a very good idea , I said then your not at his mercy because anybody who 's at Pete 's mercy will suffer , his got a very nasty streak , his got a nasty snide way of putting things . |
| 29 | It made them all laugh when Peter said that come to that , what he did with him was against the law since Jay was not yet twenty-one . |
| 30 | Mr McFall said that had to be done because it was vital that the knife carrying culture in Scotland was stamped out . |