Example sentences of "[vb past] that [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The so-called White Memorandum ( March 1942 ) proposed that in such districts the Churches ( in practice , the Church of England ) must give up their schools . |
| 2 | Slovene President Milan Kucan estimated that the process would take at least six months , and he promised that during that time Slovenia would negotiate with the federal government to avoid financial and administrative conflicts . |
| 3 | According to Mosley , the interruptions showed the necessity for the fascists to have a defence force and demonstrated that for many years past there had been no freedom of speech in the country . |
| 4 | Although it had been common for surgeons to expect suppuration of the wound as an inevitable concomitant of amputation , Alanson demonstrated that by these methods it was possible for these wounds to heal ‘ by the first intention ’ , that is , without significant infection . |
| 5 | Marx maintained that in all class societies , the ruling class exploits and oppresses the subject class . |
| 6 | Counsel maintained that in any situation where the facts , as here , would give rise to such a verdict , the death should be regarded as ‘ unnatural ’ within the meaning of section 8 . |
| 7 | Fitzgerald found that for some books , an increase to six or even nine samples actually produced means which systematically departed even further from the population mean — the true overall difficulty level , Only after the number of samples taken approached or exceeded the critical number did the mean of the samples agree with the population mean . |
| 8 | They found that of those males who reported acute sickness or chronic sickness without any limiting effect on activity , a larger proportion of the lower than the higher socio-economic groups consulted their doctors ; there was no consistent trend in the case of the females . |
| 9 | Instead of finding Whites had more favourable attitudes to the police than Blacks , and had been stopped , etc. , less ( as found in the studies of larger areas ) , we found that on some measures Whites were similar to Blacks in their attitude and experience , though there was still a tendency for Blacks to be less favourable to the police . |
| 10 | The initial study found that despite such state investment , the area was still dominated by large landlords leasing land to sharecroppers and charging high rents . |
| 11 | Hawton and Blackstock ( 1976 ) found that during these visits the doctors had , in most cases , detected symptoms of psychological distress , including anxiety and depression , and were also aware that the patients were contending with social and relationship difficulties . |
| 12 | To my great surprise , I found that in all types of managerial organization in many different countries over 35 years , people in roles at the same time span experience the same weight of responsibility and declare the same level of pay to be fair , regardless of their occupation or actual pay . |
| 13 | However , I found that in many instances this slipping action makes the disc useless , as it is unable to cut to any depth before it stops rotating . |
| 14 | He also found that in many instances children were able to correct their own errors when their attention was drawn to them . |
| 15 | We found that in each case it was necessary to think of three dimensions . |
| 16 | When , however , in one district , private hospitals attempted to provide data they found that in most cases they could not identify patients ' districts of residence ( S Israel , personal communication ) . |
| 17 | And I found that in some respects that became negative you know … in some ways that also screwed the lesson |
| 18 | The MMC ( 1980 : 97 ) found that in some guards ' depots , twelve-hour days were routinely worked , and that , apparently , ‘ those staff who wish to work their Sundays mostly have the opportunity to do so every other Sunday without strict regard to the numbers actually required to operate train services ’ . |
| 19 | They found that in some patients , self-cutting could be prevented by the provision of physical contact by a therapist , such as in putting an arm round the patient . |
| 20 | The evaluators found that in some schools library committees had become moribund , and although this was often blamed on industrial action , some people did seem to have lost interest once they had received and spent their grant . |
| 21 | Along these lines were beacons and ‘ watchtowers ’ , and he found that from any earthwork there would be an orientation marker in the form of a ‘ watchtower ’ along north-south or east-west axes . |
| 22 | Eye witnesses reported that at this time there were between six and 12 aircraft established on final and long final approach . |
| 23 | In this condition , and with much-increased fuel tankage , it could usually reach at least 30,000 feet , and on one occasion was taken up to 36,000 feet by George Burges — although he reported that at this height it was very unstable . |
| 24 | As late as January 1923 Pravda reported that in some villages in the Saratov guberniia 80 to 85 per cent of the population were still starving . |
| 25 | In April 1983 , teachers reported that in some areas they had not been paid for four months and 828 schools had been closed down . |
| 26 | The Ministry said that 97.25 per cent of the electorate of approximately 11,000,000 had voted , and reported that in some areas , including in the disputed Western Sahara , there were 100 per cent " yes " votes . |
| 27 | Perhaps the audiences realized that in that film , Ken was stretching even his normal acting powers . |
| 28 | Even nobles who had at one time covertly recommended such a union were alarmed by the unseemly haste , and realized that in any case the tide of national opinion was against the match . |
| 29 | The whole group burst out laughing and agreed that on that occasion she should be ‘ let off ’ her reading . |
| 30 | The Cabinet agreed that in these circumstances it was inevitable that the decision on this issue should be left to a free vote . |